RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 June 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

_ BOLSHEVIK QKASE, I WASHINGuT:)'N, rune 9. ' Official dispatches‘ recofived from ‘Archangel say that the Bolshevik authorities have decided to mobilise into the Red Army a lrleturned soldiers from Germany and Austria. 3 FIGHTING THE BOLSHEVIKS. I ALLIES PREPARING TO FEED t PETROGRAD. To : LONDON, June 8. ~ The Morning Post publislies a }St.oekholm message which reports that food-laden transports have a.rriv,e<l at Reval and Helsingfors to feed Petro-Ll-ad when the Bolsheviks are driven i out of the city. , - __.. kGERMANB ACT TREAC-HEROUSLY j:-ea LONDON, June 8. "33 'iL'he Daily Telegraph reports that }'~‘~Esthonians oflicially state that the Ger*ma;n Baltic troops, instead of assisting tbyéut ofi the retreating Bolsheviks, tseizetl the territory nort.h-eastward of Riga. that had been occupied by the Esthonians, and destroyed the railwaf

bridge southward of Vendcn, thus cut-' ting the _most, important Esthonian coln- ‘ munications, and leaving the Esthon-3 ians only a, narrow guage railway to the east. When asked to Withfiaw, the Germans attacked the Esth inn vanguard. A fierce fight. followed. Subsequently the Germans, using dumdum bullets, attacked the Esthonians in the occupied Lott-ish towns of Krcutzberg and Jacobstadt. FIGHTING IN LITHUANIA. LONDON, June 3. The Bolsheviks in Lithuania were defeated everywhere, and are retiring on Dvinsk. The :Dail'y T’cle.gra.ph Stoeklfoflm correspondent says: According to Finnish staflt‘ reports, Russian Bolsheviks entered Finland at Systerback. A dozen parishes in Viberg have declared a state of war. ' “BATH OF BLOOD.” VIENNA, June 8. Refugees from Western Hungary describe as a “bath «of blood” the events following the defeat of 4000 anti-Bol-shevik peasantvs at Kolderhof, near s Odenburg. - REIGN OF TERROR IN RIGA. LONDON, ne JuG. Prior to quitting Riga, the Bolsheviks indulged in a. reign of terror, 1760 M being executed out of 20,000 inhabitants ‘ sentenced to death.