RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3350, 1 December 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

Y'UDENITC‘H’S RETREAT. ARMY BUTCHER-ED LIKE SHEEP. AN OVERWHELMING 'DISAS'I‘E!R/. Received 9.40 a.m-. » STOCKHOLM, Nov. 27., A pitiful story regarding the ‘destrucfion of Yudenitch’s army co-mes from Esthoniarr fheadquarflers. Overwhelming disaster has overtaken Yudenitch during the retreat. ‘He lost all control of the army, which became a flying. huddled mob, streaming across the snowy wastes, and were butchered like sheep by the pursuing Reds. The army suffered every conceivable horror; from Is‘t=arva:fio«zl. privatron, ~,;exposure, and thirst, subsisting on handfuls of flour mixed with snow. The numbers were rapidly lessened until the emaciated, ragged. and gaunt remnant crossed the Esthonian frontier, aceompanfecl by a. handful of‘prisoners and hordes‘ of starving refugees.

LATEST CONCERNING .Dl-INIKIN. ) LONDON, Nov. 28. It is semi—olficially stated that the Hoflsheviks ihave dlri-Ven back Deniken’s forces to 2. miximum depth of fifty miles along most of the front during the last six months. The Bolsheviks have sent 350.000 men a.nd 1000 guns agaiiist Deniken, who will probably be forced to retreat further, but important forces "may redress the balance, will be available ‘to him owing to events in the Ul~:ra.ine. where the ‘defection of 15,000 Galician troops has rnjade Petl4oura’?s gosition '¢les;pera/c.eu, while the c'a.p’cure of Makhno’s brigands by Deniken forces is iniininent‘ This means, the removal of danger to Denikcn’s lines and supplies, which _causd a diversion of troops from the zinti-Bolshevik front. A Moscow wireless claims thaf Deniken’s la.r-my is broken and retreat‘ ing. It has‘entirely“lost initiative. LONDON, Nov; 26.

Denik'en’s recent reports show an astonishing record of ‘religious persecutions under. the Bolshevik regime. Many of the 01-‘rhodox clergy were martyred and some beaten to death with rainr-ods; Another was stripped naked‘ and placed before an open grave. When he inmle the Sign of the Cross the ‘executioner eut. ofl’ his right hand. The body was unburied, and the dogs ate it piacemeal. Hardly a priest. escaped ‘heating or arrest. No baptisms, burials. or Weddings are allowed without Bolshevdk permislsion. Red Army men always refer to the Virgin Mary with blasphemy and obscenity. They ‘break up church services and sing indecent hymns and songs, destroying ikons and usese.ere(l vestnienrs as horse covers. The Bethonians defeated the Bolshe~:7'.l~:S on the hiarva front. A. Reva‘; telegram states thiat Yuden. itch has lost touch with his army, which is now flisorganised and disordered. ‘ TROUBLE AT VLADIVOSTOCK. TOKIO, Nov. 26. The Czeehsfi combined with local Democrats, at Vlnclivostoek, revolted against Koltehak’s 'Cossack g'arrison, The rising was crushed. It is reported that the Czech general was either captured or took refuge on a steamer.