RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3381, 9 January 1920, Page 5

RUSSIA.

A SERIOUS ASPECT. DENIKIN’S ARMY DIVIDEZD. BOLSHEVIKS REACH THE SEA. ' ODESSA POPULACE PANIC.‘ STRICKEN_ ’ LOZNWD-ON, aJ'n. 7. The Bolsheviks have reached the sea at Azdv, thus dividing Denik:‘-n’s armies. e The Bolsheviks. have commenced a definite advance on Odessa - over ‘a broad fféfit. The Odessa populapon is panic-stricken as the result of the capture of Dvinsk, which brings about" the contact of the forces: engaged .in the ..Polish, Lettish, and Estimnian operations. ‘ 4 BOLSHEVI-‘K CLAIM. J LONDON, Jan. 6.‘. The Bolsheviks claim to have captured. Mariupol and report some of the enemy boarded steamers whi.‘-.e ntl.iel*s fled along the coast. - I CHECKING THE Bol‘.-‘:‘»HEV':KS. JAPANESE TROOPS MO‘.-’]NL}‘. VVASHINGTON, 3.1.11 6. Newspapers state that Japanese ‘troops in Siberia, ouml)ering 100,000, are moving upon a. position east of Lake Baikal with a definite plan to check the Bolsheviks. NEW PEACE OFFER. PROMISE BY LENIN”. B sToOKH_o:;M, Jan. 7.. An Esthonian paper announces that the British representative in Baltic countries, Colonel Ta-llent, has started for London to transmit a new peace offer ‘from Lenin containing :2 promise to abolish ferrorism. ;