RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 November 1919, Page 2

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

(By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.)

REPORTED DENIKEN SUCCESS. STOCKHOLM, Nov. 22. Advices from Helsingfors state Deniken reports be has broken through the Bolshevik front between Ural and Limhoff annihilating fifty-five thousand Bolsheviks. The message adds that peasants and workmen in the manufactur- A ing centres are'revolting against tho Soveit.

. CONFESSION OF BRIBERY. NEW YORK, Nov. 25. Martens, the Russian Soviet Ambassa dor, confessed to bribing Malone, exCollector of Customs at New York, to allow shipments of food and chemicals to be made to Petrograd. Martens asserted that the Lenin Government intended to recognise the Imperial Russian debt. He also added that Lenin and Trotsky no longer preached an anticap italiitic world war, and instead were anxious to make a compromise which would perhaps be permanent. BOLSHEVIK ATTITUDE. WARSAW, Nov. 22. Reports from Russia indicate the Bolshevik leaders, influenced by the recent veering of the British attitude, are now planning a change of tactics, reviving the idea of the election of the Constituent Assembly, abolishing extraordinary commissions, and forming a new Government including Menshevist leaders.

JAPANESE IN SIBERIA. (Receiver! this day at 9.25 a.m.' • TOKIO, November 23. According to the newspaper “Jipibimp.” Japan may make proposals to ‘•lie Allies regarding the strengthening af Japanese forces in Siberia, due to the menacing success of the Bolsheviks. \ • •

INVADING UKRAINE. LONDON, November 26. Bolsheviks are invading Ukraine.