RUSSIA

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3396, 29 January 1920, Page 5

RUSSIA

._.._.._..0._._.—. BOLSHEVIKS SUPREME. KOLTCHAK IN BAD ODOUR. Received 8.55 am. LONDON, Jan. 27. ~M-1' Wilton writes from Vladivostock that Bolsheviks are superseding social revolutionaries everywhere in West Baikal as soon a.s the Allied troops depart. Czechs have been been waiting for a. chance against Koltchak, whose regime they disliked. They attacked and disarmed Semenoff’s forces that were sent to relieve Irkutsk. Semenoff remains at Chita, like a Qork tossed o'll the waves. He has proclaimed himself Supreme Ruler of Eastern Russiiii‘.

FINNISH LOOTING RAID. FAMOUS MONASTERY ATTACKED Received 8.55 am. LONDON, Jan. 28. Advices from North Ruxssia state that a North Russian communique says that two rthousand Finns with‘ machine-guns and horse and reindeer transport are attacking the famous monastry at Petchenga, with the evident intention of looting its great treasures. Inhabitants ’of neighbouring villages are fleeing panic stricken.

BOLSHEVIK ATTACKS REPULSED.

JAPS. ACT DEFENSIVELY. Received 9.40 am. ' TOKIO, Jan. 23. An oflicia.-1 communique states that repeated Bolshevik atfacks in the Ussuni region were -all repulsed. The Japanese were content to act on the defensive. " ‘_?P‘E__“.:‘