RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

VICTORY FOR CZECHOSLOVAKS.

BOLSHEVIK ARMY DESTROYED.

Vladivostock, Jan. 1

General Gaida, head of the Czechoslovaks, has captured Perm, destroying' the Boisheviki army and taking 30,001) prisoners. General Gaida captured an armored train, from which Lenin barely succeeded in escaping. Several of his party were taken prisoners. Hundreds of machine-guns and light artillery were captured.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

PROGRESS OF AMERICAN TROOPS.

AN ADVANCE IN THE ARCHANGEL

DISTRICT.

London, .Tan. 2.

Dispatches from Archangel say that American troops captured the village of Kadixh, oil the northern-Russian front,

aad advr.m-cd their line two railed. Alliea troops advanced fourteen miles aloii;; the road to the Onega river. They captured more than twelve villages and are still advancing.'

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

CAUSING ALLIED ANXIETY.

London, Jan. 2.

The Daily Mail ?a> s that affairs in Russia are causing deep anviety to the Allies. The- .Russian question is likely to be the first discussed at the Peace Conference. Britain is against a major expedition to Russia, preferring to see the establishment of a Russian Government, but is unable, however, to discover where the elements necessary to give stability to such a Government exist.—Aus, N.Z. Cable Assoc.

INTERVENTION ADVOCATED,

EFFECT OF PRESENT REGIME.

Received Jan. 3, 8.40 p.m. Stockholm, Jan. 1

Branting's paper (the Social Democraten) advocates intervention against Bolshevism in Russia, because the almost total stoppage of industrial and tural activity is condemning the Russian people to starvation and death. The present regime no longer represents any vital revolutionary forces, but is supported only by bayonets.—A.us. N.Z. Cable Assoc.