RUSSIAN PROBLEM.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3393, 26 January 1920, Page 6

RUSSIAN PROBLEM.

BRITISH DIVISIONS FOR POLAND

LONDON,_Jan. 20. ~

Lieut.—Gencl'al Haking commallds two British divisions which are shorfly {going to Danzig. i 200,000 ALLIED TROOPS FOR THE ~ CAUCASUS. ~‘ ' V PARIS, Jan. 20. It is I’oppl't€d from Sofia thati The §'l_l_l.‘ gariaiz Vfronticrs are closed against Bolshovik agents. It is believed the Supreme. Council is scnding' 200,000 troops to the Caucasus. I

LONDON, Jan. 20.

Warsaw reports -that. all the Polish divisimxs on the German frontier have been rushed to the Bolshevik front.

DENIKIN ’S POSITION.

LONDON, Jan. 20.

Latest telegrams from South Russia. state that Denikin’s force has nowhere collapsed, though outnumbered. Preparations are being made to strongly defend the Crimea. and Odessa area. Much depends on the attitudeof the Kuban Cossacks, who are mobilising in force. The Bolsheviks are oflering them peace and independence. Cossack cavalry is opposing the advance of four Bolshevik columns over the Don River. V ‘ RUSSIA'S EXPORT CAPACITY. ‘ PARIS, Jan. 22. The Vice-President of the Russian Co-operative Union, which negotiated the Russian trade agreement. with the Supreme Council, explains that the agreement has no political character. The Union comprises twenty—five million members, and operates over the whole of Bolshevik and non—Bolshevik Russia. He declared that Russia possessed record stocks of wheat. cereals, cattle and flax. She wanted agricultural implements, locomotives, clothes, shoes, and medical supplies. The Allies must. supply tonnage, owing to the disappearance of Russian shipping. VAST STORES OF WHEAT. ,

TO BE AVAILABLE SHORTLY.

LONDON, Jan. 20.

There is every prospect of the O’Grady-Litvin-oif negotiations ending satisfactorily. It is probablg that vast stores of wheat in West Russia will shortly be available for Central Europe, . -... > Mun’ ‘ .-~v-~-,, ‘ DETAILS" or THE AGREE2\IEN’I‘. . COPENHAGEN, Jan. 20. Major O”}1-ady, in ‘an intervieu-' in reference to the abolition of the blockT‘.do_. said an agreement had been reached with Litvinoflf in regard to sending British subjects in Russia certain supplies for their support. It had also been arranged that for each ton of Supplies Russia should receive a ton of medical or Othéffiiecessities. RED ARi\IY’S NEW \VORK. LONDON, Jan. 20. A Moscow wireless states that The third Red Army has been converted. into the first army of labour, which will devote itself entirely to the restoration of the economic life not‘ ‘, the country. V