RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 April 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

I A GENERAL OFFENSIVE. j POLES PROGRESSING. Received April 2, 11.45 p.m. London, April 1. Russian wireless:.Tchitcherin lias sent a message to Bolakim (hat Germany, in obedience to the Entente, has formed new detachments for a general offensive. The French General Niessel at Warsaw is forming a junction with the Polish army, which is the centre of a now invasion. The right flank consists of General Potlura's troops. The German leftflank has taken Tukkum and is now approaching Nponevij. The Poles are progressing towards Vilna and Minsk, and occupied Baranovitchi. The Ukrainian right has been completely disorganised.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

ROYAL FAMILY WIPED OUT. A GOVERNESS' STORY. Received April 2, 16.30 p.m. • London, March 26. Maud Miller, a governess in Princess Volkons,ky's family in the Ukraine, has arrived in London. She related the details of how the family was wiped out. A party of fifteen Bolshevik soldiers rushed the Volkonsky's house and shofl Prince Boris before his mother's eyes while at breakfast. Princess Volkonsky and her daughters, the Princesses Natashia and Matiana, escaped to a neighboring town, where they remained unmolested for six weeks, and then the Bolsheviks cut Princess Volkonsky's throat, killed Princess Natashia with spears, and smashed in Princess Matiana's head. Previously the Bolsheviks had wiped out neighboring families, so the Volkonskys lived in daily terror. Miss Miller reached England via Constantinople.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

ROUMANIA PROTECTED. BOLSHEVIK FLANK TURNED. Received April 2, 8.55 p.m. London, April 2. The Daily Chronicle Btates that the latest information is that Genera! Potlura's troops have been reinforced, and that they turned the flank of the Bolsheviks, thus defeating the move against Roumania.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.