THE RUSSIAN WAR

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 41, 12 November 1920, Page 7

THE RUSSIAN WAR

» WRANGEL RETREATS IN SPLENDID ORDER REDS REPULSED WITH HEAVY LOSSES By Telegraph-Preaj Isaoclatlon-OoprrleM Scbastopol, November 111. Wrangcl's troops ca/nei out tho retreat to behind fortified lines in splwidid order, taking booty pnivnusiy captured. Eod attacks on Perekop were repulsed, heavy losses being inilicied on Ihe attacking forces.—Ecuter. • . AMERICAN REDIrOSS OFFICER AND TWO NURSES KILLED Sebastopol, November 10. During a Bolshevik cavalry ra'd on Talkado, Mr. Kilpatrick. representative of tho American Eod Cross, and two nurses were brutally killed.—Aus.-N.Z. table Assn. ARMENIAN ARMY" RETIRING SOVIET ULTIMATUM TO GEORGIA. Constantinople, November 10. the remnants of the Armenian Army are reported to be retiring on Novobayazid, near Lako Gudlccfm. It is stated that '-.'he Armenian Government is suing for peace, but the commander-in-chief of the Kcmalist fort-es demands a preliminary' surrender of. all arms. The Soviet .lias- sent an ultimatum to Georgia demanding the immediate cessation of negotiations with Wrangel, and tho rupture of rela.'ionS with the Entente Powers; also the suspension of commerce with the Allies. The Soviet promises in return to furnish all oil and gold required. The Georgian Government has ordered a general mobilisation.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ORIGIN OF BOLSHEVISM 'TRACED TO GEEMAN SOURCES/ Sydney, November Tl. Prince Obolensky, a member of the old Enssian regime, has arrived hero. He fought in the Enssian Army till the Etvolution, and afterwards against the Bolsheviks', who seized his estates in various', of Eussia. He graphically, describes tho reign of terror in Eussia,' and traces Bolshevism to German sources. —Press Assn. f