RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1920, Page 2

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

(By Electric Teiegrapn—-Copyright.)

POLISH FIGHTING. LONDON, May 17. . A Bolshevik official wireless report from Moscow states; “We .lave now started to advance in the Kieff region Fighting is proceeding 10 miles to the north-eastward of the town.” .WARSAW,' May 17. The Poles are feeding thousands of Russian’s, taken prisoneris, and are * then releasing them. The prisoners are A being provided by the Poles with handbills. Thirty thousand prisoners taken have ■ been freed so far. The,,- are becoming propagandists against the Soviets. There is stated to be up fear that they will fight again. RUSSrA AJSTD CHINA. PEKIN, May 18. Th'o Soviet authorities at 'lrkutsk have asked the Chinese Government to banish from China all the diplomats the consuls of the old Csarist' Russian Government.

LAST OF ROMANOFFS. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, May 17. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Constantinople correspondent describing the evacuation of Novorossisk, where ten thousand had been living In railway trucks, and others herded ten in a room in shops and offices with typhus raging, says among the dead are Prince • Eugene Trubetskoy, a well known philosopher, \Vho just before his death said—“ For the first time in my life I cannot see the next step.” ‘ Among the last refugees to depart was a lone woman, simply dressed, undistinguishable from the other wretched refugees who watched the fading land with peculiar intensity. She was the Grand Duchess Olga, the youngest sister of the Czar and the' last of - the Romanoffs to leave Russia. THE REASON WHY. (’Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, May 17. The Moscow wireless silence was due to a great fire in an ammunition depot, which seriously threatened the station.