RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3417, 23 February 1920, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ALLIES AND BOLSHEVIKS. DISBANDMENT OF “REDS.” LONDON, Feb. 20. The Morning Posts’ Copenhagen correspondent says that Mr O’Grady is conducting peace negotiations with the Bolsheviks, and is progressing favourably. The main obstacles is the British request that the “Redf army shall be demobilised. Lenin is unwilling to do this for internal as well as external reasons. The Bolsheviks claim to have captured Archangel. The “Whites” abandoned the town and joined the “Reds.”

EVACUATION OP ODESSA, TWO REFUGEE SHIPS. NOT SINCE HEARD OP. Received 10.33 a.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 18. A terrible blizza'rd added to the miseries of the evacuation of Odessa under Bolshevik fire. A ship conveying 2000 Russian and British refugees broke loose when being towed into the Bosphorous and stranded. It is believed that all were drowned. Another crowded vessel struck a mine and wirelessed that she was sinking; the vessel lias not been seen since. In order to cloak their misdeeds, nationalist bands, in the Marash districts, where Christians were slaughtered in large numbers regardlos s of age and sox, they started an outcry accusing the French Armenians of slaughter and atrocKtiqr'si. Nationalists secured reinforcements in East Cilicia, and aro aiming to clear out the French garrison and win over the Arabs with pan-Islamic propaganda.