RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3326, 3 November 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

INITIATIVE SAID ‘TO :HAVE I PASSED TO THE BOLSHEVIKS. _ COPENHAGEN, Oct} 30. Yudenitch cont;inues"to retreat, and the initiative has passed ‘entirely into the llilllds of the Bolsheviks. * SITUATION INTENSELY’ ‘ . INTERESTING. I . LONDON, Oct. 31. ' The Austral-iian .\l’?:"es—sl *Asso'cia);tion learns that the Russian military situation is regarded as intensely interesting. The Bolsheviks massedwa large force in Petrograd for »a. counteroifensive. The bulk were put in the west of Kra;-nee Solo and worked round it, comp ailing Yudeni‘fch’s retirement to a ShOl‘- er line. The effort appears to have e;.hallsted the Bolsheviks, who suiferedse-erely, and it is believed continues to press forward generally, and Petloura’s arn"f3r"is iregafdcd as a dying concern, dangerous neither !to Deniken nor to the Bolsheviks. JAPANESE MONEY FOR RUSSIA. NEW YORK, Nov. 1. The New York Times’ VVI-IS-h'l]lg‘l',oll correspondent states that "the State Department has received a report that the Vlavistock branch of the Omsk Government Bank has secured a.lo~.Ln of approximately twenffr million yen from a. Japanese syndicate to purchase Supplies, -LONDON, Nov. 1;

To-day the War Office states that the Bolsheviks on we 29th attempted ‘to break thx-.o'ugh at Ropscha, which fonn—ed the junction of Yuck-.n'it.c‘h’s tI’OOI3S and the Esthonians. The Bolsheviks created a gap, but a. counter-attack closed the gap and 1500 Bolsheviks were taken prisoner. The Bolsheviks retrea‘ted to Krasnoe Selo.

There is apparently no truth in the Bolshevik .s‘tatement ‘th-ah‘ Yudenitch h-as evacuated Gzitchina. ‘

Deniken’s DOll army surrounded a Bolshevik division and also captured Abramov. with 900 prisoners. Denikon occupied Robrov after heavy fighting. The Volunteer army is Heavily engaged on both sides 01"‘ Yr,-lets and Ol'el,"and hi»-an taken 500 pl‘iSoflC'l‘s. Deniken’s troops Westward of Kioff fioréed back 'the Bolsheviks to the Ippen river. The only set back on tho wimlo £l-oflt was at Vormiosii, \‘\'}l(‘.l’(‘. ;~‘(?'»‘<=l'o fig‘htillg eontinuos. Dcniken’s -troops were forced imol: to fix“ “'-~

CABLE BREVITIES. ' O Received S.-15 a.m. CPRETOR-lA, Oct. 30. At the Premi'el"s suggestion ‘the pro--posed No«._ion‘aT 1.~.1.051:i¢.-n for next 3931‘ has been postponed until 1922. TOKIO, Nvo. ’l. Miyaoka._. former Japafiege Charge d’Affaircs at Washington, interviewed, said Japan is not. desirous of ten-jtolx-ial sovereignty. Her only’wish is 10 penetrate economically. We have never thought of attacking the Philippines, because it would be doomed to certain defeat. . NEW YORK, Oct .31. Quen, a Px-ivy_ Councillor of the Chincsc Cabinet, announced ‘the ChineseGovcrnment is backing‘ a bank with ten million dollars capital, Wifh bnanclies at New York, Vancouver. Seattle, Washington, San Francisco, and -Montreal. WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. The State Department -“announces the United States Connnissioners appointed in Berlin does not afiect the diplomatic status of relations between the United States anfi Germany. The Government has comniandee-red all bituminous and lignite conl, which is being transported on railroads. An embargo has been placed on foreign shipments and prices. _ LONDON, Oct. 31. Sailed: Rimutaka, for Wellin§fon.