RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 3 January 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

HUNS TO FIGHT THE POLES. VETERAN ARMY TO BE USED Received 8.50 a.m. NEW YORK, Jan. 2 The Now York Times' Rotterdam correspondent learns on excellent authority that the new German Government will organise a volunteer army, of veterans who will be sent to the eastern front to fight the Poles. Minister Noske, in a statement, said the Government will not allow the Poles to invade German territory. POLES ADVANCING. Received 8.55 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 2. Polish troops are reported to be advancing on Poscn, and have entered Frankfort-on-Oder. POLISH CAVALRY PUSHING ON BERNE, January 2. Polish advices state that Polish cavalry, raiding Germany from Posen, has reached Frankfurt-on-Oder. GREAT CZECHO-SLOVAK VICTORY BOLSHEVIK ARMY ROUTED. 30,000 PRISONERS CAPTURED. LENIN'S NARROW ESCAPE. Received 9.10 a.m.

VLADIVOSOTCK, January 2. General Gaida, head of the Czechoslovaks, has captured Perm, destroying the Bolsheviki army and taking thirty thousand prisoners. Gaida captured an armoured train, from which Lenin barely succeeded in escaping. Several of his party were taken prisoner. Hundreds of machine guns and light artillery Were captured. THE CZECH'S GREAT WORK. SIBERIA SAVED FROM BOLSHEVIKS. NEW YORK, January 1. Mr. Ackerman, cabling from VJadivostcck, points out how the Czechs saved Siberia from German and Bolshevik domination. He says on November 28th, 1918, official representatives of the United States sent a mesage from which the Czechs concluded that American troops would be sent, to help them. Help, however, came. The Czechs now feel they were deserted by the Allies. Trotsky, after granting the Czechs passage through Russia, put everything in the way to delay them. All (Soviets were instructed to disarm the Czechs and shoot them on sight if armed. Tunnels were ordered to be blown up to throw trains off the tracks, and Soviets were 'instructed io send \li& men to prison camps. JAPANESE ADMIRAL ASSASSINATED. TOKIO, January 2.

Reports from Siberia state thaiAdmiral Kiltchak has been assassinated.

ALLIED OPERATIONS IN RUSSIA Received 8.55 a.m. NEW YORK, Jan. 2. Despatches from Archangel state that the American troops have captured the village of Kadish, on the northern Russian front, and advance-:' their lines two miles. The allien troops advanced fourteen miles along the road to the Onega river. ~~They captured more than twelve villages, and are still advancing. RUSSIAN AFFAIRS CAUSING ANXIETY Received 8.55 a.m. LONDON, January 2. The Daily Mail says affairs in Russia are causing deep anxiety to the Allies, the reason being the question is likely to be the first discussed at the Peace Conference. Britain is against a Major Expedition to Russia, preferring to sec the establishment of a Russian Government, but is unable, however, to discover where the elements necessary to give stability to such a government exists. GERMANS LEAVING UKRAINE AMSTERDAM, Jan. 1. A wireless Russian official message says: Ukrainian Soviet troops have taken several villages in the neighbourhood of Nagrodan, Kharkoff and Trupansk. The Germans are fleeing from Kharkoff. They requested rolling stock, which the railwaymen i agreed to supply provided the Germans give up their arms. The Germans evacuation of Vilna. will be completed on January 5. Chaos and anarchy reign at Brest Litovsk, where the fortresses have been dismantled.

RED GUARD ATROCITIES AT MOSCOW. PARIS, January 1. "Le Journal" publishes a letter from Pctrograd showing that the Red Guards suppressed a big revolt of peasants against the Bolsheviks in the Moscow district recently -with, frightful cruelties, including wholesale massacres and burnings. TO ASSIST ESTHCNIA. STOCKHOLM, January 3. Swedish volunteer troops have landed in Esthonia. A horde of Bolsheviks are bombarding Lcmberg with small guns. The Tageblatt says reports from Posen state that there were over 200 casualties in street fighting. Martial law has been proclaimed. A Coalition Government is being formed.