RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1919, Page 2

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copwigiit < _ RUSSIAN POSITION, j WASHINGTON, November 14. a The State Department learns that ‘ e owing to a lack of food, Moscow Bol- _ sheviks are not enthusiastic about furx ther fighting. % c _ LONDON, November 15. ir _ In the House of Commons Mr Lloyd George admitted that the position in western Siberia is now grave. „ He also admitted that Deniken is un- ’, able to administer the conquered terrire, toi’y iu South Russia. The Australian Press Association has received news of the general success of S the Re dp against YudenTfch. Their success was much assisted by the daring rt Bolshevik cavalry. They made a raid, breaking the anti-Bolshevik line, north s ' of ELuga. It also disorganised Yu>r denitch’s supplies and communications 0 and compelled Yudenitch to make an instant withdrawal which he successfully ie accomplished. The Bolshevik successes 11 have improved their morale, with a corresponding depressing effect on the *• anti Bolshevik Russians. l * The Bolsheviks have now scored suc;s cesses, in the south against Deniken. 'f Tlie Bolsheviks cavalry there has forced its way along the Toronezh-Kursk raild way( while further west, Deniken has 0 now been forced hack to within forty * miles of Kursk . e The situation eastern Russia is now e jalso serious for the anti-Bolsheviks, s Tlieir Siberian Army is still retreat- * ing along its 220-mile front, south of 5 Petropavlovsk, to the Irtish river. 3 The Reds advance guard have now > reached a point eighty miles west of ' Omsk. Thi s retreat has involved the ‘ first and second ani-Bolshevik armies northward of the Ishim-Omsk railway. * It is now a race between the Bolsheviks and the winter. i General Dietrich, chief-in-command, of the Siberians, has been removed, and General Sakaroff has succeeded him. KOLTQHAK’S MEN SURRENDER. , MOSCOW, November i2. Four of Koltchak’s regiments have been captured, also one Divisional Staff. Tlie whole of the officers who refused to surrender were shot by their own men prior to the latter's surrender. LONDON, November 15. The Bolsheviks have now seized the pastern const of the Black Sea ape} are qow in the rear of Deniken ! s army. Considerable significance is attached, to the fact that thp Bplshpvikg in traps r Oaspia have advanced on the Merv railway from Kizilarva to Krasnovodsk. This is termed a phase of Bolshevik penetration and is likely to have special interest for the British Empire interests in Asia. The Bolsheviks are now strongly reinforcing their armies. They’ have ordered wholesale conscription, and have registered all their live stock and transport facilities. ANGLO-FRENCH DECISIONLONDON, November 15. It is announced that Britain and France have agreed to make no further sacrifices by any intervention in Rug, ria, . ' LEAVING kteff, ("Received This Day at 8 a.m.) ' LONDON, November 15. General Deniekn has ordered the evicuation of Kieff. Bolsheviks claim the a? Aniflolr