RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 May 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

WORLD REVOLUTION, ' LENIN'S AMBITION, Stockholm, May C. A speech of Lenin's is placarded throughout Petrograd in which he declares that tlio .Bolsheviks have performed half their task of securing the victory over the bourgeoisie. The more difficult half was only just beginning. The world revolution depended on a Bolshevik victory over imperialism. The Bolshevik's are resorting to every means of mobilisation, hut the results are mo3t unsatisfactory. Regiments proceeding to the front are barely 500 strong, of whom half desert en route. — Reuter. London, May 0. A Hungarian Bolshevist official message states that order has been restored within the army and throughout the army zone. It admits withdrawals for the purpose of reorganisation.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

TO ATTACK PETROGRAD. • ALLIES' PREPARATIONS. Received May 12, 10.15 p.m, London, May 11. Helsingfors messages report that the Entente is preparing for military operations with Helsingfors as the base. Foreigners have been ordered to leave the town at short notice. Fifty thousand troops are assembling, with the reported object of attacking Petrograd. French cruisers are lying off Helsingfors and twenty British ships are expected—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

BRITISH WITHDRAWAL PROM NORTH RUSSIA. BOLSHEVIKS WEAKENING. Received May 12, 8.45 p.m. Loudon, May C. Great Britain intends to withdraw all her forces from North Russia at the earliest opportunity. Reinforcements signed on for one year's service. The Russian array is growing and training under British officers. It is expected that, when the British withdraw, a sufficient Russian force will havo been established for the defence of the population. Several thousand British troops will be retained in the Caucasus region to keep order. They will act under the League of Nations if the latter requires a force there. Britain has no intention of being drawn into internal disputes in the Caucasus. The Bolsheviks everywhere in Russia are displaying great military weakening. General Kolchak, who may be termed the "Beatty of Russia," lias by sweeping victories lessened ' the Bolshevik power. Dramatic events may be expected soon, preparing the way for a united country. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

A BOLSHEVIK DEFEAT. BIG HAUL OF PRISONERS. Beceived May 12, 8 p.m. " London, May 7. Advices from Novorossilc state that Kuban Cossacks headed the cavalry under General Sokuvo and destroyed the Bolshevik forces on General Detiiken's flank, capturing Marinpol, on the Sea of Azof, and taking 6000 prisoners. Gen-i eral Denikeni is vastly outnumbered, but is still holding his own, with his back to the wall.—United Service

NORTHERN RUSSIA. , an mxm success. London, 'May 0. Am official Murmansk telegram says the Allied troops captured Meselskaya on the railway 25 miles southward of Urosozero, after strong resistance.