RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1920, Page 3

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Electric Telegraph—Coayri^nt..' KEY TO THE CRIMEA. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 2. A Bolshevik communique claims that by taking Perekop, the Reds have captured the key to the Crimea. Other reports state that General Wrangel suffered heavy losses. The Bolshevilv army is estimated to number 140,000. ATTEMPTS AT A RISING. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, Nov. 2. The Anti-Bolshevik rising in Siberia is spreading. The newspaper, “Pravada,” states that eighty-one conspirators, mainly officers, were executed at Omsk. j Colonel Semenoff, leader of the Cossacks’ Irregulars was captured while , frying to escape in an aeroplane. TROTSKY’S THREATS. v X,ONDQN, Nov. 2. Trotsky predicts that by November 7th tli? Soviet will rule over Crimea, Tiptsky threatens Poland if the latter] continues to violate the new peace treaty by assisting Petloura in Ukranian territory. COPNEHAGEN, Nov. 2. Reports from Riga state that soldiers in Moscow refused to proceed to the front unless supplied with new equipment. Civilians joined the mutineers and the authorities posted machineguns and howitzers in the barracks and streets and arrested six thousand. They executed three Hundred, but did not discover the ringleaders. STEAMER STOPPED. COPENHAGEN, Nov 1. The “National Tidende” reports the Finnish steamer Adriadne bound from Stockholm to Heleingfors was stopped b • a British cruiser and eight Russian Bolshevist passengers were removed,