RUSSIA AND POLAND.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3596, 7 October 1920, Page 5

RUSSIA AND POLAND.

WRANGEL’S ADVANCE,

BI GMOVE IMMISENT.

LONDON, October 5.

General Wrangel’s operations in South Russia are again attracting prominence. The situation is apparently developing rapidly. . A big move to the line from Ekaterinoslav to Rostoff appears imminent. A force beaded by General Makhno, the famous guerilla leader, has already 'advanced to Losovaja Slaviansk and Kramagofskaja, in the Donetz Basin, and has reached* Kremenehug, on "the Dnieper. The movement prepares the way for a big Wrangel advance, as the capture of Losovaja Slaviansk cuts the Bolshevik main communications from their big base, the Khark’aff to Rost off area, while Ekatrinoslav is * menaced from the rear.

General Wrangel announces that 11, 000 prisoners have been counted in the Voluonalka area. He has reached a point 19 miles west of Mariupol, on the Sea of Azov, taking 600 prisoners. Meanwhile Trotsky’s latest trumpet .call reveals the greatest anxiety regarding the southern front, arid declares it must be improved before winter. WRANGEL’S ADVANCES. 0 Received 9-10 a.m. LONDON October 6. y Reports from South Russia, via Copenhagen show that the Ukranians gained numerous successes. Wrangel an<3 Petoura have joined forces. Another report stated that General Weygand has gone to South Russia to command Wrangel’s troops. Wrangel’s first army, including thirty thousand Cossacks, is under the command of General Stashtcheff, who ip reality is the. Grand Duke Michael Alexandroviteh. His second army comprises seventeen thousand' reserves and his third army between fifty and sevenfy thousand; while the fourth group consists of thirty thousand Kuban Cossacks based on theh Black Sea. ARMISTICE TO-MORROW. RIGA, October 6. It is. expected, that the Russo-Po-lish armistice .will, be . signed on the Bth. i .. v:, ■- ■ .....