SITUATION IN EUROPE.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 January 1919, Page 7

SITUATION IN EUROPE.

i f ' . - , T J OF- GERMAI^ "\aemv " ; Lon&m, Jan. Iff. Thd jlustraliMY Press Association understands that tha situation of the German army is yctv tmcnrtain. The lfr9o doss is retained with the colors, numbering 500,000, apart from at least as many others already under wmi. Hence it is essential that this Allies ajneo to all Marshal Foth'a requisitions for men. Tlius far 8047 officers and 77<> British prisoners irom Germany have foen repatriated. 'Xh« -.i>taiicni'» Bale.;® cntir.i'.es MiffllK Tte ' '"ncli iu. \ Kjum^nKij t hart be>.n compelled to occupy Ara/L There are Cuuflicts b»tw«rt Bulbars and Bomoaoiaas in the Dobrudja. The railway from Batonm to Baku is now in Britisn hands,, therefore it is easier to supply General Maleson via the Caspian, where severe winter lias set in. The British force is the only stable factor in Transcaapia It is essential to prevent the Bolsheviks penetrating northern Persia, and equally necessary to retain tha piesent force in northern Eussia, though there no intention to send large feiuforceinenta or attack Russia. The Bolsheviks on the Ural front are advancing towards Orenburg, The diiEcaides facing the Omsk Government are largely due to the condition oE the trans-Sibera'V railway, which is only I capa!ble of canryi g oEja train daily. About 120,000 Bolsheviks are operating on the Omsk front, including many German officers. Severe fighting haa occurred between the Don and the Caucasians, where General Deniktn ia commanding all the anti-Bolshevik forces. Deniken defeated tlie Bolsheviks after severe fightir.g cast of Stavropol. Nevertheless, 140,000 Buisiicviks are fighting well owing to their discipline. They ruthleac'y enforce the death y?wJty and corporal punishment. Three of the Allies are helping General Deniken with arms and air.munition, but only a few French detachments have landed at Sebastopol and Odessa.

Genera,l Poolo telegraphs that refugees in Central Russia state that the Bolsheviks continue to destroy economic aid sousl life. The decree for tha nationalisation of women has been put in force. Commissaries of free love have been established in several towns. Respectable women are flogged for refusing to yield. Experiments have also been made in the nationalisation of children.—Aia.-N.Z. Cable Assoc.