SOVIET RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 10, 7 October 1920, Page 5

SOVIET RUSSIA

FRANCE "PREPARING NEW ASSAULTS"

VIOLENT NOTE FROM TCHITCHERIN

(By Telograph-Prcss Assooiation-OopyrftfM (Rec. October 6, 8.45 p.m.) Moscow, Octobor 5. Tchitcherin has addressed a violent Note to Franco, which ho says "is preparing new assaults on Soviet Russia. The French Government three years ago attempted to'drown the Russian.revolution, in a flood of blood, and now recognised the criminal Tsarist General Wrangel. Many French troops mv in Constantinople waiting for the moment to advance against Russia and Ukraine. Tho Russian Government appeals to the brotherly masses in Franco to put an end to tho aggressive action of their Government."—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn.

RBSSO-POLISH ARMISTICE

EXPECTED TO RE SIGNED TO MORROW.

(Rec. October 6, 8.45 p.m.)

Riga, October 6. It is expected that a Russo-l'olish armistice will bo signed on October 8 — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn, ■, SCOUTS .IN BATTLE OF GRODNO. (Rec. October 6, 5.6 p.m.) Warsaw, October ft Polish, Boy Scouts took a prominent part in tho fighting in the battle of Grodno, accompanied by Girl Scouts doing Red Cross work. One company of 140, aged from 15 to 19, lost, half its number in killed and wounded—Aua.. N.Z, Cable Assn. WRANGEL'S OPERATIONS DEVELOPING TROTSKY DISPLAYING GREiAT ANXIETY. (Rec. October C, 5.5 p.m.) Warsaw, October 5. General Wrangel's operations in South Russia are again prominent. The situation 'is apparently developing rapidly, and a big move to the lino of Ekaterinoslav and Rostoif appears imminent, simultaneously with widespread raids, headed by General Makhuo. Apparently the famous guerilla leader, who has already advanced to Losovaja. Slavianik, and Kramagorskaja in the Doneta Basin, ban reached Krementchong, on tho Dnieper. The movement prepares tho way for & big Wrangel advance, as tho capture of Losovaja and Slaviansk cuts tho Bolshevik main communications from their big baso at Kharkoff to the Rostoff area whilo Ekatrinoslav is menaced from the rear. Wrangel announces that elevon thousand prisoners have been counted In the Voluovalka. area, and ho has reaohod a point nineteen miles west of, Mario, pol, taking 1600 prisoner. Meanwhile Trotsky's latest trumpet call reveals the greatest anxiety regarding the southern front and declares it must be liquidated before tho winter.—Reuter. poles anTUthuanians - RENEWAL OF THE FIGHTING. Copenhagen, October 5. Reports from Kovno describe renewed .fighting between the Poles and Lithuanians. The Poles occupied tho railway station of Orany after a fierce resistance. Thoro vere great losses on both sides.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.