RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1920, Page 2

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Electric Telegraph—Coayriftut.)' ' POLISH BOY SCOUTS. '? WARSAW, October 6. Polish boy scouts took a prominent part in the fighting in the battle of Grodno, accompanied by igirl scouts doing Red Cross work. One company, of 140 of ages 15 to 19 lost half killed and wounded. iyWR'ANGEL’S SUCCESSES. LONDON, October 5 General Wrangel’s operations in . Woutli Russia are again prominent. >'4^The situation is apparently developing rapidly. A -big move to the line EklaterLnoslav-Rostoff appears immin- . ent, simultaneously with widespread re- My ports headed by General Makhno, apparently the famous, guerilla lender who has already advanced to Losoveja, Slavianik, and Kramakorskajann Donetz basin, and reached Kremenohug on the Dnieper. Th 0 movement pre- M pares the way for a big Wrangel advance as the capture of Losovnja Slaviansk cuts the -Bolshevik main communications from their big base, Klior. koff to Rostoff area, while Ekatrinoslav is menaced from the rear. Wrangel announces eleven thousand prisoners have been counted in Volnovalka area. He has reached a point nineteen miles west of Mariopol taking pri- A soner six hundjred.. Meanwhile Trot- 'A sky’s latest trumpet call reveals the greatest anxiety regarding the southern front and declares it will he improved \ v before the winter. , * RUSSIA AND BRITAIN. LONDON, October 5. ' The “Evening Standard” says that' the trade negotiations of Britain with Russia have indefinitely been suspended . £ until a satisfactory reply is received to ~j. a British Note just addressed to the , Soviet Government. The Note has regard to British prisoners and Bolshevik propaganda. The Note says a timo .. 'v--limit is fixed for a reply. . -■ ; A RUSSIAN PROTEST. ;f§ MOSCOW, October 5. \j. | M. Tcliitcherin (Soviet Foreign Min- ' ister) lias addressed a strong Note to France in which he protests against . - further campaigns against Russia. He . says France is novi\ preparing new as- V, ’ saults on Soviet Russia. The French ’ Government three years ago, he says attempted “to drown the Russian so- . r volution in a flood of blood,” and now . I she has recognised the criminal Tsar- .. ; ist General Wkangel. Many French , troops, he points out, are now in Con--1 stantinople, waiting there for the mo- 5 ,.,- ' ment to advance against (Russia and the Ukraine. The Russian tTovernment lie says, appeals to the brotherly in France to put an end to the aggressive action of their Government. RUSSO-PpLISH ARMISTICE. x \ RIGA, Oct. 6v It is expected a Russo-Polish armistice will be signed on the Bth of Oct.