RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 March 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

SIBERIAN TROOPS ADVANCE

BOLSHEVIK SET BACK

COPENHAGEN, March 7

The situation in Russia is as follows: —In the Northern Urals 'Siberian troops are continuing a successful movement south-west of Kungur, south of Vietmaka, on the Perm railway, and are advancing on the Sarapol. In the Southern Urals Siberian troops occupied Nikosloe, 52 miles east by south of Birsk. General Dutoff* s Cossacks cut the Tkshkend-Orenburg railway. Bolshevik forces in the above regions are estimated at a thousand, and are well disciplined. A Red force of seven thousand men, with artillery, is crossing the Bug River and (advancing towards Odessa.

Franco-Polish troops' completely occupied the Bender-Tiraspol Odessa railway, inflicting severe losses on the B’olsheviks.

There has been heavy fighting on the shores of the Gulf of Riga.

It is reported that German troops have re-taken Windau from the Bolsheviks.

FIERCE ENCOUNTER AT ARCHANGEL. LONDON, March 7. Bolsheviks reattached the Archangel front on the afternoon of March Ist, and after a heavy bombardment of the Yaga, sector they captured the village of Voveseiwskaya, from -which the Allies, after a day-long and nightlong resistance, withdrew inflicting heavy (casualties on the enemy. The Allied blockhouses and village were burned in our fighting. On the Murman front the Allies inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy, three of their leading generals being killed. The enemy is now withdrawing.

A BOLSHEVIK OFFER.

TO BRITAIN AND AMERICA

Received 8.55

WASHINGTON, March 6

Raymond Robins, former Lead of the American Red Cross in Russia, testified before the Propaganda Investigation Commission that Bolshevists made offer to Britain and the United States in February, 1918, to resume war against Germany, provided assistance was forthcoming Britain and the United States did not reply, and the Bolshevists then induced the All-Russian Soviets to ratify the Brest Litovsk Treaty.

CONFERRING WITH GERMANS

GERMANS ARE CONCILIATORY

Received 8.35

PARIS, MarchS,

Advices from Posen state that an Inter-Allied Commission crossed the German frontier and met German delegates at Krcuz. The Germans appeared very conciliatory, and declared they were just as anxious to stop fighting as the Polos. They alleged that frontier fighting was due to acts of a few insubordinate individuals. The delegates proceeded to Posen to continue the conference. It is hoped a speedy and satisfactory conclusion will be reached.

NEW MENACE TO EUROPE

BOLSHEVIKS’ WILD DREAMS

HELSINGFORS, March 8

Advices state that Petrograd was decorated and illuminated on the anniversary of the assassination of the ex-Car. Thirty thousand eRd Guards paraded at the Winter Palace, where Zinovieff bombastically declared that the Red army was destined to fight not only in Russia, but in the streets of Paris and Rome. It is stated that two Bolshevik propagandists have left Moscow, ordered to create a base in Spain and then blow up the Eiffel Tower, while the Peace Conference) was sitting*