RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 April 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

NEED FOR ALLIED ACTION. | TO DEAL WITH BOLSHEVISM. GROWING HATRED OF PEOPLE | AGAINST REGIME. Received April 8, 5.5 p.m. London, April 7. There is a growing opinion that it is of the greatest importance the Allies should decide on a definite policy for dealing with Bolshevism and preventing it spreading. Petrograd could be readily captured, but the problem of feeding the city afterwards is most difficult. The time of the year will be coming when it will he suitable for naval and military operations. The Daily Telegraph's Stockholm correspondent states that refugees from Petrograd report that the discipline of the Bolshevik soldiers is deteriorating, and that many are deserting from the front, and there is growing hatred of the populace against the present regime. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. THE MURMANSK EXPEDITION. IMPROVEMENT IN POSITION. Received April S, 8.5 p.m. London, April 7 A British Murmansk <£cial report, dated April 5, announces improvement in the state of affairs at Kandalaksha. The announcement that reinforcements were en route and other Military preparations were being taken overawed the leaders of the Finns, Karelians, and Bolsheviks, who had been planning a rising on a large scale. The leaders in the Finnish region signed an agreement to comply in future with the wishes of the general officer commanding. The War Office states that according to later information from Murmansk the immediate danger of a Finnish arid Karelian rising haß been averted.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter. BOLSHEVIK CASUALTIES. 700 DEAD IN RECENT FIGHTING. Received April 8, 5.5 p.m. Archangel, April 7. The Bolsheviks lost 700 in dead in the recent fighting.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. LENIN'S ARMY. New York, April 6. The Petrograd correspondent of the Chicago Tribune states that Lenin' 3 army is now more than a million men, who are fighting on a 4500-mile front. — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. London, April 7. The British relief force will be dispatched on Wednesday. Stockholm, April 7. The Bolsheviks have been defeated in Northern Lithuania and are retreating on the whole front.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. London, April 7. The projected rising of Finns, Bolahe.viks and Karelians in the Kola Peninsula was quelled.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Washington, April 7 Lord Reading stated that the sug ;estion that Mr. Lloyd George at any time advised recognition of Lenin and Trotsky is unfounded.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Association.