RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

UKRAINIANS CAPTURE

VILLAGES.

GETTING BID OF THE GERMANS:

CHAGS AND ANARCHY AT B.REST- [ „ LITOVSK. 1 , . Received Jan. 2, 11.40 p.m. London, Dec. 31.' A wireless Russian official message says that the Ukrainian Soviet troops have taken several villages in the neighborhoods of Nagrodan, KharkoiT, and Trupansk. The German;, fleeing from Kharkoff, requested rolling stock, which the railwayman agreed to supply, provided the Germans gave up their anas, j The German evacuation of Vilna will be completed on January 5. Chaos and anarchy rsigna at BrostLitovsk, where the fortresses have been dismantled.—Aus.-NZ. Cable Assoc.,and Reuter. , '

A REVOLT SUPPRESSED. WITJjfl FRIGHTFUL CRUELTIES. 'v- Received Jan. 2, 11.40 p.m. Paris, -Doc. 31. tLe Journal publishes a letter from Petrograd showing that the Red Guards suppressed a big revolt of the peasants against the Bolsheviks in the Moscow district recently, with frightful cruelties, including wholesale massacres and burnings.—Reuter.

THE CZECHS. HOW THEY SAVED SIBERIA. Received Jan. 2, 5.5 p.m. New York, Jan. 1. Mr. Ackerman, cabling from Vladivostok, points out how the Czechs savptl Siberia from German and Bolshevik domination. He says that on November 28, 1918, the official representatives-of the United States sent a message from which American troops would be sent to help them. The help, however, never came. The Czechs now feel they were deserted by the Allies. Trotski, after granting the Czechs a passage through Russia, put everything in the way to delay them. All the Soviets were instructed to disarm the Czechs and shoot them on sight if armed. Tunnels were ordered to be blown up to throw the trains off the tracks, and the Soviets' instructions were to send the men to prison camps.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

SERIES OF CAPTURES. LITHUANIAN GOVERNMENT GOES TO KOVNO. Received Jan. 3, 12.5 a.m. London, Jan. 1. A Russian wireless message states:— We have advanced ' towards Reval to the Loksha-Kolk line. We captured Romotzkoe, near Wenden, also Romorshof, on the Dvina, and Ussiasny, on the Sven-teiany-Ponevesh railway. We have taken Ufa, which was the capital of the White Guards westward of the Urals. The Lithuanian bourgeois Government has left Vilna for ICovno.—AuS.-N.Z-Cable Assoc. and Reuter.

MOVEMENTS OF ALLIED TROOPS. SWEDISH VOLUNTEERS LAND. BOLSHEVIKS BOMBARD LEMBERG.

Received Jan. 2, 11.45 p.m. Stockholm, Dec. 31 (via America.). Swedish volunteer troops have been landed at Esthonia. French transports, with two battalions of Turco3, Arabs, and Algerians, have arrived at Odessa. The British will occupy WarflfcW. A horde of Bolsheviks are bombarding Lemberg with small guns—Reuter.

AN ADMIRAL ASSASSINATED. Received Jan. 2, 1140 p.m. Tokio, Ded. 31. Reports from Siberia state that Admiral Kiltcliak has been assassinated.— •Reuter Service. ~" REPORTS OF FIGHTING.

London, Jan. 1. A Russian wireless communique states: la tlie Vetchorft and Mezen region we are continuing to advance, capturing several villages after fierce fighting. In the Reval region the onemy landed 500 men and four guns. In the direction of Riga we Captured 2. guns. On the southern front a Strong enemy force pressed us hack to Grenevak.-—Aua. N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Renter.