RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1920, Page 2

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

(Reuter's Telegram.! WIIANGjSL’S GREAT SUCCESS. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 14. Details of General Wrangel's victory on the Cth., show how Wrangel got wiild qf at) intended a'tt>acfc atid received it with a withering Htts-’ ouf of eight thousand, only fiftppn huqdrgd escaped. The remainder werp kii|ed except a fhousapd fa ken prisopors. Forty guns and the whple transport were captured.

RUSSIAN PROPOSALS. [LONDON TIMES SERVICE—COI'YKHJUT' LONDON, July 14. The new Russian proposals include an offer to restore the confiscated fac- . tories to the legal owners, permitting j the latter, including many British, to ! re-enter Russia and starf afresli. * j The Moscow Executive pjeads that j the Bolshgviks inyasipi) of Persia wai uudprtakep without its consent, but ( the British Government is unlikely ”tp .’accept the excuse and; will require special assnrapees. j VILNAfS FATE JN DOUBT. . LONDON, July 13. The '“Morning Post’s ! ’ Warsaw cor- , , respondent reports a npw three-oornpr-ed situation between the Poles, thq Lithuanians, and the Polsheviks. Jt complicated hv a Lithuanian declnration that rather than have tho Bolsheviks in Vilna, Lithuania will itself send troops to capture Vilna from thq Poles Nevertheless it is known that Lithu- , ania„ ever since its birth as a State, has been anxious to Have Vilna- as its ivs capital. Once the Lithuanians come to Vilna, the Poles will have to figV to recover, the city. Out of a population of 200,000, 60,000 have fled from Vilna in the lost 48 hours. Re membering their experience of 1910, , when the Bolsheviks occupied the city . for four months, those remaining are awaiting the next turn of the military, ._ A situation with anxiety, wondering'vrhch ther the Poles', the Lithuanians, . '• Bolsheviks will become their masters,! IV-A