RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA .

THE SITUATION DESCRIBED

DEFEAT OF THE BOLSHEVIKS. Received March S, 3.10 p.m. Copenhagen, March 7. The situation in Russia is as follows: In the northern Urals the Siberian troops are continuing their successful movement south-west of Kungur and south of the Vietreka-Perm railway, and are advancing on Sarapol in the southern Urals. The Siberian troops have occupied Nilolskce, fifty-two miles east by south of Birak. General Diitoii's Cossacks cut the Tashkent-Orenburg railway. The Bolshevik forces in the above regions are estimated at a thousand. A well-disciplined Red force of 7000 men, with artillery, is crossing the Bug and advancing towards Odessa. Franco-Polish troops completely occupied the Bender-Tirnapol-Odessa railway, inflicting severe losses on the Bolsheviks. There has been heavy fighting on the shores of the Gulf of Riga. It is reported that German troops have re-taken Windau from the Bolsheviks. — Reuter TERRIBLE POGROMS, 400 FAMILIES WIPED OUT. Received March 8, 3.5 p.m. Stockholm, March 7 The Yiddish Morgenpost reports terrible pogroms in East Galicia and Ukraine.,, Four hundred families at Proskurow were killed. —Reuter. ALLIES' REVERSE AT ARCHANGEL. SUCCESS ON MURMAN FRONT. Received March S, 3.30 p.m. London, March 7. The Bolsheviks re-attacked the Archangel front on the afternoon of March 1, and after a heavy bombardment of the Vaga sector they captured the village of Yeveseiwskaya, from which the Allies, after day-long and night-long resistance, withdrew after inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy. The Allied blockhouses and villages were burned out. In the fighting on the Murman front the Allies inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy, three of their leading generals being killed. The enemy is now withdrawing.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. BOMBASTIC BOLSHEVIKS. PLANS FOR STIRRING UP TROUBLE ELSEWHERE. Received March 9, 5.5 p.m. Helsingfors, March 7. Advices state that Petrograd was decorated and illuminated on the anniversary of the assassination of the exCzar. Thirty thousand Red Guards paraded at the Winter Palace. Zinovieff bombastically declared that the Red Army was destined to fight not only Russia, but in the streets of London, Paris, and Rome. It is stated that two Bolshevist propagandists have left Moscow and been ordered to create a base in Spain, 1 then to blow up the Eiffel Tower while the Peace Conference, is sitting. A Petrograd message asserts that the Bolshevists spent five million sterling on stirring up trouble in Ireland.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Reuter. 'BOLSHEVIKS CAPTURE A VILLAGE. Received March 9, 5.5 pm, London, March 6. The Bolsheviks captured a ullage on the Archangel front. The British have ■withdrawn a mile.