RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

BOLSHEVIKS SURROUNDED. OFFENSIVE LIKELY TO BE DESTROYED. Received April 9, 5.6 p.m. London, March 29. The recapture of Ufa cut off a fifth of the Bolsheviks' army, which is believed to be surrounded and not left a loophole for escape. Another Government success pushed the defence from the Urals fifty miles and is likely to destroy the whole Bolshevik offensive. General Koltchak has an excellent stiffening of British battalions. Plentiful supplies of stores, arms, and ammunition are pouring into Siberia. The army is splendidly equipped. The Bolsheviks admit that their expulsion from the Don basin and the Urals is disastrous, as they depended on hese regions for the bulk of their cereals and coal supplies.—Times Service. SCHEME TO RE-TAKE PETROGRAD. IF ALLIES FEED THE CITY. Received April 9, 5.5 p.m. London, March 29. The Daily Mail states that a responsible Russian committee, headed by Generals Kortoscheff and .Judenitch, with headquarters at Helsingfors, has offered to arrange a Russian expedition to retake Petrograd if the Allies would feed the captured city. The arrangements have been completed and the expedition is ready to start. The committee have appealed to the British Government for permission, suggesting that the expedition shall cross the Finnish frontier forty miles from Petrograd.—-United Service. THE BOLSHEVIK REGIME. ITS END FORESHADOWED. Received April 9, £.5 p.m. Stockholm, March 29. At the recent Bolshevik conference at Petrograd, Lunalshar, one of the most prominent Bolsheviks, frankly avowed that the Bolshevik Government situation was absolutely intolerable. The faith of its most ardent adherents had been shaken, owing to the lack of bread, fuel, and raw materials., The Government was accused of inefficiency. He confessed that the principal enemy was the Allied blockade. He foreshadowed the end of the Bolshevik regime if the blockade was continued.—Reuter. RETURN OF AMERICAN MISSION. CONDITIONS BETTER THAN REPORTED. Received April 9, 5.5 p.m, New scork, March 28. The Ne# York World's Paris correspondent states that the American Mission to Russia has returned. Although the members have been instructed not to talk to newspaper' men, I learn authoritatively that they found the conditions in Moscow better than previously reported. Trains are running regularly between Moscow and Petrograd. The "Big Four" are considering the Russian situation. The tendency is to treat with the Bolsheviks.

The correspondent adds that ill health compelled M. Clemenceau to return home from a conference with President Wilson after a few minutes. It also prevented him having a conference with Mr. Lloyd George the same day.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. BOLSHEVIK ATTACK REPULSED. London, April 0. A British north Russia official message says: After a night bombardment the enemy, during the morning of the 6th, attacked the positions near Shredmerhenenga, and was repulsed with heavy loss. We took prisoner 100, including a Bolshevik battalion commander. Our casualties were nil—Aus. N.Z. Cable Association.

London, April 6. A British Murmansk official report says: Reinforcements for the infantry and marines have been rapidly moved down the railway line in anticipation of nipping in the bud the mutinous tendency among the Finnish troops forming part of Mayn&rd's forces, whose object is believed to be to effect a junctiofi with the Bolsheviks. At Archangel the situation is unchanged, and so far the Bolsheviks have not resumed their attacks after their recent disastrous failure.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. UKRAINIANS CAPTURE ODESSA. April 10, 9.30 p.m. Paris. April 8. An unofficial wireless from Moscow reports that the Ukrainian Soviet troops captured Odessa.—Reuter.