RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 February 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ALLIES' SUCCESS. ON MURMAN COAST. BOLSHEVIKS SUFFER HEAVILY. Received Feb. 23, 5.5 p.m. London, Feb. 21. A British north Russia ollioial message states that the Allies, with very slight casualties, carried out successful operations in which Segoja, sixty miles southward of Horoka, on the Murman railway, was reached. The Bolsheviks suffered heavy casualties. We counted fifty killed. Eighty were prisonered, and much material was captured, including machine-guns, rifles, and rolling-stock.— Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter.

DEFENCES AT RIGA. FABULOUS RATES OF PAY. ARCHBISHOPS EXECUTED. Received Feb. 23, 5.5 p.m. Helsingfors, Feb. 21. The Bolshevist naval staff are hastily organising the sea defences at Riga. They are extensively mining the southern coast, and offering fabulous salaries to marine experts, paying mine-laving marines nominally £3OO daily. It is officially announced that an extraordinary commission condemned and executed eleven archbishops in January, including the metropolitan of Kieff, and condemned 200 bourgeois hostages at Pensa to be shot in the event of any attempt on the life of Trotsky.—Times Service.

ESTHONIANS ATTACKED. HEAVY FIGHTING. Received Feb. 23, 5.5 p.m. London, Feb. 21. Bolsheviks on Saturday be™an a general offensive against the Esthonians. Heavy fighting resulted. The Ksthonians strongly counter-attacked. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. DENEKIN'S VICTORIOUS ADVANCE. BOLSHEVIK ARMY SMASHED. Received Feb. 23, 5.5 p.m. London, Feb. 21. General Denekin's advance smashed the Bolshevik army of nearly 100,000. The victory enabled General Denekin to assist the Don front, where the position is precarious.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

DENEKEN REACHES THE CASPIAN. LARGE CAPTURES MADE. Received Feb. 23, 5.5 p.m. New York, Feb. 22. Dispatches from Odessa say that General Deneken's army reached the Caspian Sea and captured *31,000 Reds, 95 guns, and eight armored trains. They defeated 100,000 Bolsheviks.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. BOLSHEVIK PROPAGANDA. FOR CHINA AND INDIA. . Received Feb. 22, 5.5 p.m. London, Feb. 20. The Daily Chronicle's Geneva correspondent states there is a new aspect of the Bolshevik danger. The Soviet rulers are concentrating on the propagation of Bolshevism in China and India. Russian and Swiss refugees from Moscow state that the Bolshevik dictators depend entirely on the Chinese troops, owing to the disaffection among the Russian Red Guards.—Aub. N.Z. Cable Association.

LENIN ASSAULTED AND ROBBED. THOUSANDS OF BOLSHEVIKS PRISONERED. Received Feb. 24, 1.50 a.m. Stockholm, Keb. 21. Sailors assaulted and robbed Lenin while he was motoring from I'olrograd. General Denekin's force has reached the.Caspian Sea. He took prisoner thousands of Bolsheviks and put out of action the whole of the eleventh army.— Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

OPPOSITION TO BOLSHEVIK RULE. 60,000 ON STRIKE IN PETROGRAD. DENEKIN'S BRILLIANT SUCCESSES

Received Feb. 24, 12.45 a.m. London, Feb. 20. The Australian Press Association has reliable information from pro-Bolshevik sources in Russia which indicates that enlightened workers' opposition to Bolshevik rule increases. A Bolshevik wireless admits that (10,000 workmen struck at Petrograd, demanding the cessation of civil war. The situation on the Arehangel-Cur-mansk fronts remains unchanged, but there are increasing signs that the Bolsheviks are massing forties on those fronts.

General Denekin's operations on the southern front resulted in brilliant successes, the Bolsheviks being compelled to retire a hundred miles, and their position being extremely uncomfortable. It is anticipated that the' majority of these troops will be put out of actioii.~Aus. ftnd KZ. ,