BOLSHEVIK DEFEATS.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 April 1919, Page 3

BOLSHEVIK DEFEATS.

IN THE URAL REGION

FIFTH ARMY CUT OFF.

LONDON, April 8

A British Murmansk official report says that reinforcements ,of infantry and marines rapidly moved, down the railway line from Kola towards Petrograd, in anticipation of nipping in the bud a mutinous tendency amongst the Finnish troops forming part of General Maynard's forces, whose object was believed to be to effect a junction with the Bolsheviks.

The Archangel situation is unchanged so far. The Bolsheviks have not resumed their attacks after their recent disastrous failure.

The recapture of Ufa cut off the Fifth Bolshevik Army, which is believed to be surrounded and left without a loophole of escape. Other Siberian successes pushed back the defence from the Urals fifty miles, and arelikely to destroy the whole Bolshevik offensive. Admiral Koltchak has an excellent stiffening of British battalions, while plentiful supplies of stores, arms, and ammunition are pouring into

! Siberia. The army is splendidly equipped. j The Bolsheviks admit that the expulI sion from the Don basin and the Urals iis disastrous, as they depended on these regions for the bulk of the cereal and coal supplies. The "Daily Mail" states that a responsible Russian committee, headed by Generals Kartascheff and Judcnitch, with headquarters at Helsingfors, offered to arrange a Russian expedition to retake Petrograd, if the Allies feed the captured city. Arrangements were completed ready to start, and the committee appealed to the British Government for permission, suggesting that the expedition should cross the Finnish frontier 30 miles from Petrograd.