RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 December 1919, Page 2

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

(By Electric Telegraph—Cop/ngnt . BOLSHEVIKS SUCCESS. LONDON, December 26. ;A Moscow Soviet wireless claims the capture of ten thousand prisoners, •and five thousand officers from the anti-Bolsheviks. Other messages state that seven hundred of Kolchak’s men were found in hospital near Omsk, frozen to death. Lloyd George and Clemenceau say the Allies still refuse to operate with the Soviet.

DECISIVE OPERATIONS. LONDON, December 24. There are indications that decisive operations have begun in South Russia. Deniken sends a wireless stating the Bolsheviks have brought up reinforcements amounting to nearly forty infantry and seven cavalry divisona. They are from the Siberian and Northern fronts, where they can be spared. The aim of the Soviet he says is that of crushing the anti-Bolsheviks. Deniken makes the claim that he repulsed the first shock, inflicting large losses.

BOLSHEVIK FIGHTING. (Received This Day at 8 a.iri.) COPENHAGEN, (Dec. 26!. There are reports of unusual Bolshevik activity on the entire front, with a furious attacks at various points. It is reported from Reval that "Bolsheviks are receiving reinforcements from Narvato and Pskoff. Fifty-six Bolsheviks regiments attacked Narva with little result, twenty per cent of the shells failing to explode. Riga reports that strong Bolshevik forces opened an offensive on Lipno riVer. All attacks were heavily repulsed.