RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1920, Page 3

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

(AUSTRALIAN'& N.Z CABLE ASSOCIATION] RUSSIA AND ENGLAND. (Received This Day at 10.35. a.m.) COPENHAGEN, Dec. 31. Litvinoff interviewed, claimed that the fact that O’Grady was returning oni Saturday to resume negotations . indicates that -Britain has accpted the. Soviet’s terms. Litvinoff added that Peace was coming more quickly than was generally believed'

. ... A DEBACLE. i i -g-i DENEKIN’S ARMY. i ~' • (Received this day at 10.10 a.m.) £ PARIS, Dec. 31. fche “Echo de Paris” Zurich corresikTndent reports General Deniken s army is cut in two. It is reported one portion was- thrown back on Odessa and the other is retreating towards the mouth of the Don. The Supreme Commander is nw at Taganrog headquarters aboard a warship in the Black Sea.

ANTI-BOLSHEVIK PLIGHT. (Received This Day at 11.20. a.m.) LONDON, December 31st. (The debacle of the tanti-Bolsbevih forces threatens to become one of the great military collapses in history. \ put of Deniken’s forces are retreating ~in poor condition towards Odessa, which civilians are evacuating. The rest of the beaten army, which a short time ago, contained two hundred thousand regiments, is now hurrying eastwards to the Don country. Deniken and his s taff have arrived at laganrog aboard a battleship. Koltcliak’s plight is worse. He had at the latest 250 thousand bayonets, but is now unable to compose tlie quarrels among hi®, own generals. Neither Denikep nor Koltchnk have succeeded in administering the territories they conquered. Risings are -repeatedly breaking out in the rear of their armies. Ukrainian 'peasants feared Czardom, while despite Kpltchak’s white terror, the Siberians have kept a strong demiBolshevist party alive.