IN RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3494, 24 May 1920, Page 5

IN RUSSIA.

FURIOUS RED ATTACKS. Received 8.45. LONDON, May 21, A Warsaw correspondent reports the Bolsheviks’ counter-attack against the Poles on the Dwina-Bcresina front was a furious affair, resulting in the flattening out of the Lepel salients. After the first sudden onset, however, the Reds again showed poor morale, leaving the commanders unable to exploit their success. A continuance of heavy fighting is expected, but the Polish staff is satisfied with the situation.

BOLSHEVIK SUCCESS AGAINST POLES. Received 9.45 a.m. LONDON. May 22. A wireless Bolshevik communique states: —We are energetically advancing in Polotsk region and have reached a line ten miles south-west-ward of Polotsk. We have occupied several villages further west, and forced the Tchernitka river. There was stubborn fighting on the right bank of the Beresina rived. We occupied several villages. A particularly firece engagement in the Shumen direction resulted in our favour. Elsewher the advance is developing satisfactorily. ' - • '

TFE POLISH ADVANCE. RED? ATTACK JAPANESE Received 8.30. LONDON, May £l. An authoritative commentary onine Polish operat/ons shows that to attain the Dnieper hne the Poles advanced on a front of 250 miles to an average depth of ten miles in sixteen days. There is no confirmation of the reported capture of Odessa by the Ukraiirans, ’ . Referring to Siberia, it is stated the Reds attacked the Japanese east of Verkhneudinsk, and were defeated with the loss of three hundred killed. The Japanese casualties were two. The quality of the Siberian troops was of the poorest, they showed no inclination to fight. Other Red forces are assembling west and south of Nikolainsk.

BUFFER STATE IN SIBERIA. Received 8.45. PEKIN, May 21. The ex-Bolshevik leader Krasnoehkoff, self-styling himself Foreign Minister. has notified the Allied High Commissioners in Siberia of the formation of a buffer state called Verchneuninsk, consisting of territories eastward of Lake Baikal including Kamschatka, and Sakhalin. Krashochkoff requests the evacuation from Siberia of all Allied forces including the •Japanese. It is believed the movement is inspired from Moscow, but is not taken seriously.

RUSSIA AND POLAND. BRITISH WORKERS OPPOSE BRITAIN’S PARTICIPATION. LONDON, May 21. The Miners’ Federation executive has urged the Government to use its influence to end the Polish war. It ha s decided to co-oper4te with the political labour movement to demand that the Government should cease to support Poland. The executive of the National Union of Railwaymen instructed members to refuse to handle any material intencPed to assist Poland against Russia. A Bolshevik communique states; Pursuit of the retreating enemy continues in the Polotsk region. We occupied a number of villages eastward of Ihumen after fierce fighting_ Aeroplanes Korn heft enemy positions, and assisted our crossing the Beregina river.

The National Assembly has com,plefed its task. Ebert, in a fnessage, congratulated the Assembly on laying the founda,tir)ns in the -chaos. They would be remembered in history as the first builders of the German republic He issued a. warning against conspiracies against the State. It is reported information was 'rr3cently secured indicating a revolutionary agitation by The Right. and Left Nationalists. '