RUSSIAN MIX-UP

Hokitika Guardian, 3 February 1920, Page 2

RUSSIAN MIX-UP

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CAPTURE OF ODESSA. VIENNA. Feb. I

The Ukrariian press describing the capture of Odessa after hard fighting against Denekin’s forces by Ukranian regulars reinforced by the Khorsou Government Irregulars, says that Deii.ekin’s troops were mostly taken prisoner. The remainder, retreated into Roumania where they were disarmed.

IN SIBERIA. LONDON, Jan. 30. The “Times” states a recent message from Harbin ,ou the Siberian railway, stted that there wore 15,000 Czech troops spread along six hundred versts of the Siberian railway. To the westward of Irkutsk the line was damaged in many places. All the employees have been refusing duty. Each party of Czechs has been compelled to repair the line as they travel, hewing trpes for engine fuel. A hundred engines are lying derelict, and there are gpeat piles of rolling stock stranded. The amount of human suffering is alleged to he great. Fortunately, it added, the Czechs are well supplied with food. The whole country has now turned Bolshevik owing to the doings of the anti-Bolsheviks;. The Czechs are in a precarious position, thei rartillerv ammunition being -defiicient for serious fighting.

- ROLES AND SOCIALISTS. (Received this day, at 9.80 a.m.) COPENHAGEN) Fob. 2. Bolshevik delegates at Dorpat have received advice that the Poles are abandoning their proposed campaigns against Petrograd and Moscow, as the Socialist workers demand, peace with Russia. Peace Signed. BY BOLSHEVIKS AND KSTHONJANS (By F.lectric .Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received*this day at 10.20 a.m., , LONDON, Feb- 1. Tlie Bolsheviks and Esthonians have signed peace terms at Dorpat.