RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1919, Page 3

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

(By' Electric Telegraph— Cooyright.)

OF DENIKEN’S TROOPS

(Received This Uuv ai u.lo a.iu.j LONDON, October 15,

General Deniken reports after many days’ fighting having captured Orel. The simple people weeping with joy fell on their knees and exclaimed, “Christ has risen”! The troops were received with enthusiasm. Several thousand were received with enthusiasm. Several thousand prisoners were taken with two batteries and an enormous amount of booty. Deniken cut up the reds in west Medvyetskaiza flinging them back beyond Mevyftchka and taking fifteen hundred prisoners. Another eleven hundred prisonered in upper Don district where a' battery with gunners was captured and turned against the reds. Konovaloff’s Don Cossacks, in Krivitchy region, dispersed a Bolshevik division, faking three thousand prison- j ers, with two heavy and three smaller guns. -

CAPTURE OF KOVNO. (Received this day at 9.25 a./n.? COPENHAGEN ,October 14. It is reported that Poles attacked the Germans and captured Kovno.

FURTHER SUCCESS. PARIS, October 14. The* “Echo de Paris” Stockholm correspondent states Deniken has occupied the important stations of Tallovaya, prisonering nine thousand and taking twenty cannon. HELSINGFORS, October 15. The reds near Gatschina are retir- • ing almost unrestingly. BRAVERY OF AUSTRALIANS. (Received This Day at 1.5. p.m.) LONDON, October 15. , a high officer from North Russia gives unreserved testimony to the bravery of the Australians, who fought for six weeks on the Archangel railway

front with the Vologda force under • General Turner. The Australians arrived on the front on July 21st at the most critical moment owing to- a Bolshevik attack, . coupled with the Russian mutiny simultaneously by Bolsheviks propaganda being in full swing. Turner’s force consisted of ten thousand men, divided lilnto three sections; a. central force composed of British oh the railway, and right and left fjanks consisting of Russians, with a. sprinkling of British officers. The right flank on Onega river unexpectedly mutinied. The men arrested their officers sending twenty British officers to Moscow.