RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1920, Page 3

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

J AUSTRALIAN & N.Z OABLB ASSOCIATION]

IN RUSSIA. LONDON, January 17

The “Morning Post’s’’ Moscow correspondent states: The Polish advance against the Bolsheviks on the Dvinsk and Volhynian fronts halted a week ago. It is believed that a crisis there is approaching and that the Reds are contemplating a strong attack against Poles, without waiting for more favourable spring weather conditions, £ the "idea being to forestall a Polish drive, which it is feared may be made later, under the auspices of some ally, particularly England. It is reported that Trotsky is planning to open a campaign at the beginning of March. Many German officers are alleged to be instructing the Bolshevik forces. The Moscow newspapers describe Deniken’s rout under such' headlines as: ‘Deniken now,” “Poles next!’’ I The {London “Daily Express” (a . Cabinet organ) has a report from the ] Paris correspondent saying that, in con- j sequence -of the Inter-Allied discus- 1 sions the Anglo-French intervention in Russia, .both financial and material has now ended.”

Mr Lloyd George (he says) is convinced that no good results can come from further, costly subsidising of the anti-Bolshevik forces. Mr Lloyd George is therefore disappointed at the antiBolshevik failure. He says they have not profited l>y the liberal support that has hitherto been given them. He stays he has now lost faith in their claim that they deserve assistance. The French leaders concur in this view. NEIV YORK, January 17. The U.S. State Department has informed Japan that the American troops were withdrawn from Siberia, firstly because of an impossibility of sending reinforcements, and also because the maintenance of the status quo might involve the United States in sonic undertaking qs woulc} proye inadvisable.

RUSSIA’S MURDER LlS’*, i .‘Received This Day at 8 a.m.) HELSINGFORS, January 15. Tbe Finnish statistician, Professor Ossendovski, estimates Russia has lost 35 million lives since .1914, by murders. UKRAINIAN REBELS. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, January 15. Reports from Lemburg state Ukrainian rebels have driven the remnants of Deniken’s army across the Dnieper. The rebels have entered Odessa,

A WOEFUL .TALE, (United Service Telegrams). (Received This Day at noon.) " LONDON, January 15. Wit h the latest news from Russia, the military defeat of the Bolsheviks pusses into’the realm of distant possibilities. The flame and sword are furnishing ghastly spectacles of the ruin, and disaster in south and south-west Russia. Great Russia is being triumphantly re-established by Trotsky’s armies. Amidst this welter of misery and death, the last remnants of Koltchaks and Deniken’s armies are disappearing leaving nothing. Tbe “Times” correspondent at Warf *1 I- Ol'O /*rvlYl

umw Hays jA'aunc**Vleitely ’ annihilated. The eorrespondent adds that Trotsky and Bed Officers favour ail invasion. <*f Pq] an 4> which is regarded -a§ cerfaip ip April after two’' iponths reorganisation apd the regrouping of forces. The Pules ,t is pointed out, are, ready in strong et,no-e position, with Letts and Roumanians cm their flanks, but immediate Allied assistance is vital. Bolsheviks are infinitely more numerous and better equipped. The Reds are making rapid progress at Odessa where a lew Whites under Allied warships guns are rallying, and talking of opposition. The Black Sea position is complicated by the Russian fleet, which we handed over to volunteers early in the year. The “Times’’ Teheran correspondent telegraphs ’information there shows the Russia fleet‘is permeated with Bolshevism. The' old 'Russian Caspian Sea fleet is in a similar condition and sailed from Kyasnov'oesk apparently joining tiie' Bolshevists. farjar apjl Governments refused to ttpst Oepiken whose rigid adherence to methoc? anc ideas of the old regime and failure to recognise the peasants desire to keep their land was raised, wherever he went a larger crop of enemies than he conquered. Eastern Sibehi is in n state of utter chaos. Hunger is widespread even the wealthiest refuge 3.1 dying of Rio sharpest pangs. Irkutsk is aflame - and local insurrectionaries are deposing Koltebak’s officials everywhere, ft is not known what has become of Albert Rapper, the sharp faced little map who since the coup d’etat, signed himself Supreme Ruler. The Czech troops wore turnd back at the Allies request and sent along the railway, with orders to effect his rescue. The only news coming from the territories to which they (returned lare fragments telling how British, American and Japanese groups are isolated and apparent]}' overwhelm, erl apd fakeq prisoner. ” Extremist outbreaks are reported at Vladiyostoek which the Allies are quittin!r

RUSSIAN AIMS. LONDON, Jan. 15. A Moscow wireless says that the All Russian Commission was resolved to complete the defeat of Yudenitch, Deni ken and Kolteliak, to afford the Govern inent an opportunity of laying aside the weapon of terror which will only bo renewed if the Entente attempts armed intervention.