RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1919, Page 3

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

BOLSHEVIK CAPTURES. LONDON, Nov. 20. A Bolshevik wireless claim to have captured Kusath. The months captures * against Koltchak include: Two generals, a thousand officers, 27,000 men, thirty guns. , , .. 7 CONFERENCE TO MEET. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) _ LONDON, November 20.

In the Commons, the Premier announced that an ' Inter-Allied Conference would shortly be held, probably in London to discuss Russia.

BOLSHEVIKS LATEST ACT. LONDON, Nov. 20. • The anti-Bolshevik leader in South Russia, General Doniken, has sent a wireless message, stating that the Bolsheviks have released the British hostages whom they had held previously.

BOTTLING UP THE BALTIC. LONDON, Nov. 20.

It is officially announced that all the British ships withdrew from the Baltic a fortnight ago. They have since been acting so as to prevent any Bolshevik .ships from emerging from the ice, which will shortly make exit impossible. THE HESGFThEATY.

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FIUME’S ‘RULER. LONDON, November 20. The detailed story regarding the oc-

cupation' of Zara by Gabrielle d Annun- • bio is interesting. It shows that he took from Fiume with him, a thousand soldiers and went to Zara in four destroyers. When he got outside Fiume, a blockading Italian destroyer challenged him but when Signor d’ Annunzio announced himself by megaphone, the blockader allowed the four vessels to pass • and cheered them. The city of Kara fed the expedition. The local commander vice-Admi-ral Nillo, at first asked d’Annunzio. .. to re-embark. Then he joined the rebels and embraced d’Annunzio. The Admiral presented him to the crowd, as ‘‘the first Italian governor of Dalmatia.”

ROME, November 18.

Signor D’Annunzio found the naval blockade of Zara relaxed.. The garrison obeyed o’Annunzio’s order to retire. D’Annunzio in a proclamation to all

the Italian towns of the Adriatic promises them deliverance as at Fiume.

BULGARIA’S TIME LIMIT. PARIS, Nov. 19. The Supreme Council have fixed the 27th inst for Bulgaria’s signing of the Treaty.

• GERMAN TREATY TO OPERATE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) PARIS, November 20. The Supreme Council advises that the German Treaty should operate from December Ist.

WITHOUT AMERICA (Received this -day, at 9.30 a.m.) . LONDON, Nov. 21.

Hon. Bonar Law says, the Allies intend to proceed with the League of Nations without United States.

BRITAIN AND FRANCE. PARIS, Nov. (21

Britain and France have each ratified the Treaty, guaranteeing British aid to France if Germany attacks her.