RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1920, Page 2

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

AUSTRALIAN & N.Z CABLE ASSOCIATION} BOSHEVIK CAPTURES. LONDON, Jan. 8. . . A Bolshevik wireless states.—We have captured four thousand prisoners in Don district, 220 guns, and four tanks, and have made similar captures of prisoners and booty elsewhere, including twenty 6-inch guns, 97 locomotives and 800 waggons with shells und dynamite near Tomsk.

RUSSIAN ATROCITIES. LONDON, Jan. 8. Joseph Inigo Jones who was living at Kharkoff until Deniken rescued him, supplies a horrible narrative of BolsheI vik outrages ip town. He says Jewish ' commissaries forced prisoners arms into . boiling water, when they pulled the | skin off like a glove and that many Christians were crucified.

JAPAN’S AIMS. TOKIO, Jail. 8. General Garimateon, commander of tlic Japanese forces in Siberia, in a speech, said that Japan only wished to guarantee peace. She does not desire territorial annexation, acquisition or an yother privileges in Siberia.

IN SIBERIA. LONDON, Jan. 9. The situation at Irkutsk is increas-

ingly serious. Nine thousand anti Kolchak insurgents are there. They are being constantly reinforced, and are armed with machine guns and aeroplanes. They are holding up the town. It is understood that Semeuoff, who is westward of Chita, has appealed for the despatch of a Japanese division to Irkutsk.

TAKING REFUGE. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) PARIS, Jan. 9.

A telegram from Switzerland states General Denekin’s troops are in full retreat, and are taking refuge in Poland. RUSSIAN CAPTURES. (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) , LONDON, January 9. v-.cow wireless asserts that du- | ring the southern offensive thirty five thousand prisoners, four hundred guns, eighteen armed trains and much other booty was secured. Another Moscow wireless claims the Reds have captured Krasnoyarsk taking £60,000 prisoners. A Bolsheviks wireless claims the capture of Taganrog with enormous booty.