IN RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3534, 23 July 1920, Page 5

IN RUSSIA.

PRISONERS m SIBERIA.

Received 5.55,

CHRISTTANIA., July 21

Dr. Nansen. who has returned from Russia, states that there are still tw r o hundred thousand, mostly Central European, prisoner s in Siberia and Turkestan. Fifteen thousand prisoners in Siberia could be sent home via Vladivostok if tannage was .available.

THE BOLSHEVIK ADVANCE,

MARCH ON WARSAW

Received 8.55

COPENHAGEN. July 21

Kovno telegrams state that three Bolshevik armies are being thrown into Lithuania, and all are'marching by different routes to Warsaw.

It is reported that a strong national spirit prevails. A Bolshevik general declared: "We are not Bolsheviks but Russians fighting the Russian nation's enemies."

BOLSHEVIKS ON PRUSSIAN FRONTIER.

COMMUNICATION WITH PRUSSIA.

Received 9.40 a.m

LONDON, July 22

j The Morning Post's~Warsaw correspondent says the news that, the Soviet Government. ha s rejected the armistice proposals comes as a relief after a period of restless uncertainly. Fighting is now actually occurring at Grodno and Kovel, while the Bolshevik cavalry is reported at Bialystok, the evacuation whereof is progressing. The most signicant news to-day is that of the crossing of the Bolsheviks of the line of Congress Poland, and invading territory which is admittedly purely Polish in population The Bolsheviks have now formed contact with East Prussia and penetration is effected over the Niemen River. There is little likelihood that the Bolsheviks will receive the cooperation and sympathy of East Prussia, whicff i s reactionary; but the fact that communication has been established between Soviet Russia and Germany is regarded as an event of the first consequence.

A DENIAL. Received 8.55. LONDON, July 22

The invasion of Roumania is officially denied, but the army is mobil 1 - ised to resist the Bolsheviks. POLISH VOLUNTEERS. READY TO RESIST. Received 8.55. LONDON, July 22. The Daily Express' Warsaw correspondent states that" there are no signs that the Poles" "are" "ready to consider arf armistice. Many "volunteer regiments have been formed in answer to Pilsudski's call to arms, including a battalion of .peasants armed with scythes. Countless refugees from, the battle region are flooding Poland. The Bolshevik 9 are fiercely striving to capture Grovno and force the Niemen River

PRESS COMMENT.

BRITISH OBLIGATIONS.

Received 9.25,

LONDON, July 22,

Regarding the Polish situation, Mr. Lloyd George's comments thereon are the outstanding topic of the day. The Daily Telegraph says the Poles must be saved. Marshal Foch consistently declined to encourage the Polish offensive on the ground that Napoleon's example was a warning to a lesser genius not to emulate the invasion of Russia; but says he will go to Poland if the Bolshevik invasion continues, in order to organise the-Polish rear defences, which were neglected, like those of Italy in 1917. This will show ithe Bolsheviks that the Western Powers cannot be flouted with impunity. The Chronicle says: "If the Soviet's reply be for war, we and our Allies will Lave no option, but to take up the challenge.

The Daily Express remarks that war with Russia would tax to the limit the resources which the Allies mobilised in 1914 and 191 R.

The Daily News sirongly objects to the League of Nations intervening in Poland now, as there is nothing to the discredit of the League more than its declining to lift a finger to restrain one of its members from a piece of lawless buccaneering, and then intervening at the moment the folly of that member began to Tecoil on its own head. The Allies must clear up the matter. GERMANY PLEDGES NEUTRALITY BERLIN. July 20. The Government, is issuing a <" ! <v

claratioa pledging Germany Sto , the strictest neutrality in the Soviet-Po-lish war, and appealing to Germans abroad not to participate on either side.

TRADE DELEGATES PUZZLED,

LONDON, July 21

The Russian trade delegates remain at Reval. They are doubtful whether to proceed to London to .re-open discussions until satisfactory arrangements have been made with Russia regarding Poland.

WARSAW, July 21

Despite repeated attacks, Budeny's troops en the Galaciarx frontier seem sufficiently protected. The Poles also securely held the approaches to Brest Litovsk. Obstinate battles are being fought in the Upper Niemcn and easten approaches to Baranovitch, while the Polos firmly held the central region cf the Pripeh Last week's fighting shows that the Bolshevik push has spent itself. Everything points to the situation becoming stationary..

PRUSSIANS FIGHTING BOLSHEVIKS.

EAST PRUSSIAN PLANS COMPLETE

Received 31.5.

PARIS. July 22.

Thi* Now Herald's Berlin correspondent states tlie the German Government "baa completed plans for arming East Prussians against the Bolsheviks, besides the concentration of all available troops. Rifles will be distributed among civilians.