BOLSHEVISM.

Taihape Daily Times, 7 May 1919, Page 5

BOLSHEVISM.

AUCHAN GEL SAFE. ENEMY UNABLE TO ATTACK. Received May 7, 9.5 a.m. LONDON, May 6. General Ironsides is confident that there is now no danger of a successful enemy attack on the Archangel front.

IN NORTH RUSSIA. BOLSHEVIKS BEHEAD A MEEICANS. LONDON, May 5. A Helsingfors telegram to the Daily Express says: B'olshevists spies learned details of the defence of Shenkursk, on the Yaga river, 275 miles south-eastward of Archangel, and organised a detachment of axe-men, who attacked the American guard during the night. They beheaded 60 out- of 80 pickets, and gained an entrance to the fort.

DETAILS OF THE BATTLE,

LONDON, May 5.

General Ironsides reports: The Bolshevik bombardment of Vaga lasted several hours. Dug-outs withstood the shelling, and protected the infantry well. The enemy assembled under cover of woods, but were speedily dispersed when they advanced into the open. One party of Bolsheviks attempted to get round the British flank, "but the Russian infantry counterattacked and defeated the enemy. General Ironside paid a tribute to the Canadian artillery, and all the Russian artillerymen manning the British sixty-pounders, which were a deciding factor in the battle. FIGHTING THE BOLSHEVIKS.

PETROGRAD IN' STATE OF SIEGB PARIS, May 5. . Finnish troops and Judenich’s Rus-* sian volunteers are within twenty-twoj miles of Petrograd. 0 The Russian Bolshevi Government has proclaimed a state of siege in. Petrograd, relying for defence mafnlyl Finnish Red Guards. The Bolshe-

viks appealed to the proletariat “tG assist in repelling Manncrheims Pin-' nish White Guards. The principal motive of Mannerheim’s advance is to force t favourable solution of the Finnish question, hoping to compel the Bolsheviks to concede the demands before the Bolshevik debacle complicates the problem.

A BOLSHEVIK COM MISSARY MURDERED

PARIS May 5

A Russian official message states that the Bolshevik commissary Gregorieffi was murdered in Petrograd.