RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1920, Page 3

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

RUSSIA OVER-RUN.

DENIKEN’S DEBACLE

(AUSTRALIAN & N.Z CABLE ASSOCIATION]

LONDON, Jan. 5. Advices from Russia state the Reds are completely in possession of Donetz coal basin. Their cavalry is twenty miles from Taganrog. Deniken’s troops are*" fleeing panic stricken and have evacuated Tsaritsyn, which was the principal bulwark ot Deniken’s right wing.: The Reds are at the gates of ' the Cossack capital Novocherkatsk. Deni ken’s overthrow is not confirmed, but the position of his armies, is desperate. The Allies are sending steamers to evacunto civilians from Odessa. Harold Williams, in a delayed telegram, from Restoff, gives a glimpse of the vast retreat in bitter winter, over icy Russian Steppes. A great migration precedes the soldiers. Traders, workmen, women and children are abandoning everything and hurrying , away in trains, carts and: afoot. Peasants and Cossacks are moving southwards in great caravans with herds of cattle ,horses and camels as though flying from a terror that walked by day. Upon the issue depends the stability of Europe, for the Bolshevists are certain to turn elsewhere for conquests. The “Times” in an editorial, says surely none can suppose triumphant Bolshevism will wallow contentedly untill it dies from its own putridity. The more it decays at tlfo centre the more it will press outwards into China, Poland, Armenia, and India. TEHERAN, Jan. 3. Soviet troops captured Ivrasnovodsk on the East Coast of the Caspian Sea, and are reported to be predominant at Astrakan.