RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1920, Page 2

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

fAUBXIt AU AN & N.Z OAHLE ASSOCIATION] BOLSHEVIK METHODS. TOKIO, Jan. 6. Light on anti Bolshevik* methods is thrown by the leaders of the Czech forces in Siberia. They have presented to the Allied missions attached to Kolchak’s army a protest against the barbarities perpetrated in Siberia of Kolchak’s army. The Note says that, under the protection of the Czecho-Slovak bayonets, Russian anti-Bolslievik troops have been and continue, committing crimes which would horrify the world if they were known. These crimes include the burning of villages, tile murdering of peaceful Russian inhabitants, the executing of hundreds of people of Democratic convictions every day. The slaving of people includes revolting executions at Vladivostock. These horrors largely account for the hatred against Kolchak that exists in Siberia.

THE RUSSIAN DEBACLE. LONDON, January 6. The Bolshevik forces in Russia are now sweeping rapidly south toward the Caucasus. They are pursuing Deniken’s. Caucasus army which is struggling to escape southward, towards Ekaerinador. It is fighting heavy rearguard actions, but another Red Army, which is marching north of the Don River, threatens to eut it off. The Ukraine .front is less active.