GERMANY WITHIN

Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1920, Page 2

GERMANY WITHIN

jßy Electric Telegraph—Cooyr’gnt SOVIET OFFENSIVE. WARSAW, March 21,

There are heavy Bolshevik counterattacks being made on the Polish Front, but they are failing. The Poles captured some Red officers, who describe this fighting as a prelude to a general Soviet offensive on the South, with a view to taking Mozyr, Rovno, and Proskurmo. The Reds’ available forces, however, do not exceed 50,000. The Allies’ military experts are confident that the Poles are not endangered. The chances of the attackers reaching Galicia arc considered very small. SPARTACIST REVIVAL. BRUSSELS, March .21. According to the latest information from Aix La Cbapelle the situation in the Rhine industrial region in West Germany, remains unchanged. Following on sanguinary fighting northwards of Neiderich near Duisbure, the Government forces were forced to ret The Spartacists declare thru ihcr movement is not against the a • nics of occupation. They have req i ste.l ; remission to send their wounded men via Ruhrert, - which, they ropose, shall be regarded as a neutral zone. FIGHTING GOING ON. BERLIN, March 21. A message from Halle, in Saxony, says the situation there is considerably worse. There is lively fighting going on between troops and armed workers. The town is reported to be surrounded by workmen.