RED RUSSIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10285, 21 May 1919, Page 5

RED RUSSIA

ALLIED MURMANSK FORCE DRIVING BOLSHEVIKS SOUTH. „ By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. CReceived May 20, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 12. Dispatches from Archangel, say that the Allied Murmansk forces are driving tho Bolsheviks southward. THE NAVAL ENGAGEMENT OFF FINNISH COAST. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. COPENHAGEN, May 19 T Five Bolshevik cruisers bombarded the Finnish coast. . ' , " Three British light cruisers up and sank one of the Bolshevik vessels, and almost the whole of the.crew were drowned. The rest of the Bolshevik ships fled to Kronstadt.. -

REIGN OF TERROR AT,RJ.GA...... COPENHAGEN, Majr^l2 i _

The Bolsheviks are exercising a frightful reign of terror at Riga, and are murdering ' many people without sentences. The "Reds' 1 carry off their" victims in motors at night and slaughter them in the suburbs, and countenance wholesale plundering. An epidemic is raging, including smallpox, black plague, and spotted typhus, and the death-roll, i3 ; ,heavy. There is great shortage .of . medicine and doctors. ■'—"<•••'- "-"* ~* STOCKHOLM, May 12. It is reported that 37,D00 people are dying ■ of starvation every week »n Petrograd. BIG CAPTURE BY DENIKIN. LONDON, May 19. Official: General Denikin is personally conducting the operations .at Tsaritsin {on the Volga), >:and..ha».el-: ready captured 10,000 prisoners, r :Z»; guns, and 120 machine-guns.

POISON GAS' USED BY"BOLS£Ui3;,

VIKS

LONDON- May-19: In the House of Commons -Captain Guest stated that the Bottheriks ' have adopted poison gas out the North Russian front. We were preparing.to retaliate. , ~ ■'.■:•'• • ■ .~ij,'.-'.'-: -'. '