RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 January 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

j BOLSHEVIKS RETREATING. ; ; TOQlffiDL STRIKERS. BeaeivcA Jan. 20, liftSO pju. Helsinglora, Jan. 15. ! Tha Rofehevika are retreating in dis»' order in Esthonia, a great part of th®:mvadiag troops Jwviag been withdrawn to quell the famine strikes in Petrograd, whore the internal troubles <stu3B a highly dangerous situation. Copenhagen, Jan. 18. Hie Vossische sateo that refugees from Riga report fires in several phices, and that the Bolsheviiis are plundering and! murdering.—AUS.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Paris, Jan. 26.

_ It ia 'onderstood that a committee o£ six representatives of the principal At* lies will examine the situation in Russia. Representatives of the southern Russian. States, also of Omsk, will give evidence before the committee, also various-Rus-sian personages now in Russia who kxva teen grouped under tho presidency ofj Prince Lvoff.—Aus.-N.2. Cable Aasn. Received Jan. 20, 5.5 pjn. New York, Jan. 11. TheiTew York Sun's Paris correspond dent states that the American peawfc delegation ia not allowing any mllingnmf to reorganise the Soviet regime ini Russia, but favors sending a comnA** sion to Russia to investigate the conditions. There is also some talk of inviting representative Soviets to come to Paris and present their case.—Aus. N.Z. Cahla Assoc. . ; ...