RUSSIA AND POLAND.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3590, 29 September 1920, Page 5

RUSSIA AND POLAND.

POLISH ADVANCE CONTINUES. BOLSHEVIKS IN RETREAT. Received 8.50 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 28. The Poles continue to advance east of Grodno, and are approaching Vilna. The 1 Bolsheviks are in full retreat, but it is believed that large Red j forces are re-grouping behind Minsk, j LENIN’S INSPIRATION. j RUSSIA’S FEMININE MYSTIC. | LONDON, Sept. 28. ! Russian newspapers declare that , the most powerful citizen in Soviet Russia is Olga Gorokhoff. aged | twenty-three, a physically attractive j and healthy girl, who is Lenin’s chief j I inspirer. She fanatically preaches a I Red Holy War against England in | Asia. She gained ascendancy over j the chief Soviet leaders by a queer | mixture of mysticism and impudence, j and is the Bolsheviks’ Rasputin, with ’ similar influence and practices. She claims to be able to forsee the future, and concocts diabolical plans while affecting an amazing sang froid. She j recently induced Lenin to dismiss and j imprison six high military leaders. | LITHUANIAN PERFIDY. j Received 9.20 a.m. WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. According to the copy of the Peace Treaty between Russia and Lithuania received from the United States Government agents in the .Balflc, Lithuania has pledged herself to allow Bolshevik troops to use her territory as a base for attacks on Poland. THE LITHUANIAN TROUBLE. SETTLEMENT HOPED FOR. Received 8.5 fl a.m. j LONDON, Sept. 28. The Lithuanian Government, while still hoping for a peaceful settlement of the Polish situation, has issued a stirring appeal to the people to resist the invaders with choppers, scythes, and pitchforks, if rifles are not available.