IN RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1920, Page 2

IN RUSSIA.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright, i

* BOLSHEVIK ADVANCE. LONDON, Feb. 7. It is semi-officially stated that the Bolsheviks are still fifty miles from Odessa, north of Crimea. Their opponents apparently maintain their hold on the isthmuses of Perekop and Ohongar, which are easily defensible. Cossacks have taken a large number of prisoners and four guns in some fighting f on Manitos.

Latest news shows .that practically all the coastal area round Vladivostoc-k lias

gone red. It is now only a question of time before the Soviet spreads to the whole of the Amur and the Ussuri districts on both sides of Vladivostok . . The. Social Revolutionaries at Irkutsk have been overthrown by the Bolsheviks. It was done without any conflict. The Social Rcvlutionaries have been replaced bv a Soviet Committee .

BOLSHEVIK DEFEAT (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, February 6. The British military mission to South Russia reports the Bolsheviks were completely .-defeated iii attempts to force the line of the Don and Manitch rivers. A red cavalry corps crossed the river near the mouth, but were driven back with heavy losses-. During the retreat, the ice on the river broke, and many Reds were drowned, and a large number of guns and waggons lost. The remnants of force fled northwards.

In the Caucasus the volunteer armies of the Bolsheviks were heavily defeated. The total captures hitherto counted in these operations amount to eight thousand prisoners, one hundred and seventy one guns, and thr*'* hundred and forty machine guns.'

SIBERIAN CONDITIONS, fßeceived This Day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, February 6. Major Lesies, a .member of the French High Commission to Kaltchak Government who is enroute from VladivoiStock to, France predicts the overthrow of the Russian Soviets Government' within a few months. Despite the recent military and diplomatic achievements, Siberia is not controlled by the Soviets, but by their opponents.