RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 6 January 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

FIGHTING BOLSHEVIKS LONDON, January 3. Over ten thousand volunteers have joined the Esthontem Auxiliary Expedition against the Bolsheviks. Thousands of Russian bourgeoisie fugitives have arrived on the Finnish frontier in . order to form fighting units against the Bolsheviks and to embark in an offensive on Petrograd i The Swedish Press states that the \ Bolsheviks entered Riga and Vilna, aided by the Germans. The Swiss Government has telegraphed to the Soviet Government in Petrograd protesting against the refusal to permit the Swiss Legation, to leave Russia. HEAVY LOSSES AT UFA. LONDON, January 3. Advices from Czecho-Slovak sources state that British armoured cars are operating with the Czechs in the Ufa, region of the Urals. The Bolsheviks have already lost 60,000 men. ADVANCE. TOWARDS GERMAN FRONTIER LONDON, January 3. The English newspapers continue to demand the Government's intentions owing to the advance of the B«lshcviks in Germany and the inability of the German forces to stay their progress. The German troops who were forced to evacuate Riga have taken up positions outside the city. RUSSIA'S FLEET. COPENHAGEN, Jan. 3. An American squadron has gone to the Baltic. A Russian fleet, including the Dreadnoughts Poltava and Sevastopol left Kronstadt to meet the British fleet in the Baltic, but was fired upon from the Finnish coast, and decided to return owing to dissensions aboard. ANTI-JEWISH TROUBLES ! Received 8.55 a.m. LONDON, January 3. The Anglo-Jewish Association has published a report showing the recent pogroms in Poland are the result of a proclamation declaring that, Jewish gold is financing the Polish Social Democrats and that the Jewish League is organsing Bolshevism. General WitolderskS, commander-in-chief, has issued an order to arrest Jew ! hostages, who will be shot if Bol- ! shevik outrages occurred. Pogroms | have followed in many cities.

POSEN OCCUPIED BY POLES Received 8.55 a.m. COPENHAGEN, Jan. 3. Posen is completely in the hands of the Poles. All official money has been confiscated by the Poles, whose colours fly everywhere. Bakers refuse to sell bread to German?!

BRITISH FLEET IN BALTIC. Received 5.55 ia.m. LONDON, January 3. The British naval forces have withdrawn from (lie Eastern Baltic owing to the ice and floating mines, but are remaining in the Western Baltic. STATE MATRIMONIAL AGENCY. RUSSIA ! S LATEST Received 5.55 a.m. PETROGRAD, Jan. 3. The Town Council has decided that all unmarried women of from 18 to 15 shall be provided with husbands selected by the Council. The children of these unions will be educated under control of (he Soviet Government. JAPANESE FORCES WITHDRAWN EVIDENCE OF ALLIED DISUNITY. Received noon. LONDON. Jan. 5. The Daily Express* Tokio correspondent states the War Office announces that 34,000 Japanese troops have been withdrawn from Siberia, Japan only maintaining smaller forces there. Allied and American observers criticise the intervention, which was a. relative failure owing to the Allies' disunity, GERMANS ABANDON COMRADES TO BOLSHEVIKS. Rceived noon. COPENHAGEN, Jan. 5. The German troops who were withdrawn a short distance from Riga had to abandon thousands of their comrades and an enormous quantity of property to the Bolsheviks.

BOLSHEVIKS MOBILISING. GETTING READY FOR THE WORST Rceived noon. COPENHAGEN, Jan. 5. The Poseu correspondent of the . .ational Tidends states the situation is growing worse on the German front. Troopss fighting the Poles at various points are driving them back by artillery. The Baltic provinces are organising against the Bolsheviks, and a joint front is forming through Livonia, Esthonia, and Courland to Lithuania. Travellers from Petrograd report the Government is nervous, and" is mobilising all officers up to sixty year, compelling them to enter the Red Army. ' and all bridges inside and outside Petrograd are mined, and preparations are being made for a speedy departure. SPEECH BY A SOVIET DELEGATE. RUSSIAN READY TO FIGHT RUSSIANS READY TO FIGHT CAPITALISM. AMSTERDAM, January 3 Radek. the Russian Soviet delegate, in a speech at the Spartaeus Congress in Berlin, de'clared that the German Government had rejected ian (Jffer of .two traia-loads of faread,--stuffs. The Russians were willing to share what little they had with the German proletariat. He ridiculed the idea of the Entente sending troops further into Russia because they would become infected with Bolshevism. He declared that Russian workr men were ready to fight alongside their , German comrades on the Rhine against British capitalism. He proposed a world Soviet Congress at Berlin to negotiate world peace. UKRAINIAN REBELS SURROUNDED. ■LONDON, January 4. A Russian wireless message states: The Ukraine rebels are surrounded at Krovoletz. A battle is in progress. THE BOLSHEVIKS. ALLIIES TOMAK EWAR ON THEM.

NEW YOEK, Jan. 4. The New York Times' correspondent at Washington reports: The Russion Embassy has received advices from the Eussian Embassy at Paris saying that M. Sazanoff has communicated with the Allied Governments declaring that political circles in Russia favoured immediate strong measures for the purpose of crushing the Bolsheviks, General Pools is new conferring with M. Sazanoff.

The New York World's Paris cor'respondent says: Americans and Allies are planning >a definite swift campaign to stamp out Bolshevism. They may attack the Russian Bolshevik forces by land, river and sea, with Poland as the chief battle-ground. The purpose is to prevent the German reds from joining their Russian comrades.

BIG THINGS PENDING. NEW YORK, Jan. 4. General Semenoff, interviewed by the American Press Agency, said Russia, was able to place a million troops in th efield against the Bolsheviks. Differences which have arisen between Semenoff and Kolchak, however, have delayed definite action. Numbers of British troops are at present in Chita. Semenoff was wounded when a bomb attempt was made 'in 4ire in. a crowded theatre.

THE POLISH MOVEMENT. GERMANS DEFEAT POLES. LONDON", January 4. According to the German Press, as reported at Basle, several army corps are concentrated on the Prussian border against the Poles. According to the Berlin 'Dcutsches Tagcs Zeitung' the British Government has sept an ultimatum to the German Government demanding that Gorman troops prevent further advances by the Bolshevik forces. FIGHTING CONTINUES. AMSTERDAM, January 4. Pogroms occurred at Poscn on Sunday and a number of Jews were killed. The synogogue was damaged by machine-gun fire, and numerous houses were pillaged. Fighting continues between the Germans and the Poles. 'Baderewski is commanding the latter. Posen is officially declared *to be in a state of siege. -po]e-s j are 'storming jmblie buildings, boys of fifteen are being armed with rifles against the Germans A thousand Poles stormed artillery depots and distributed ammunition. They took possession of the railway end sent the German garrison at Poscn a demnad for their surrender, otherwise airmen would bombard rhbarracks.