RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 May 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE FINNISH ARMY,

WITHIN A FEW MlLfia ©if PETROGRAD, §§tgiOSVISTS DEPART FROM I'flE i| CITY. Received May 16, 7.45 p.m. Copenhagen, May 14. general vMannerheim's army is within a few miles of Petrograd, where panic prevails. The Bolshevist leaders have departed and the Bolshevist troops in north Russia are preparing to retreat.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. READINESS TO RECEIVE AID. BUT WILL STILL FIGHT THE ALLIES Received May 16, 8.30 p.m. Paris, May 13. A Russian wireless states that Tcliioherin expresses the willingness of the Soviets to receive re-victualling, but declines to accept it as a condition precedent to the cessation of hostilities. Tchicherin declares the Bolsheviks will not be duped by a mixture of humanitarianism with politics, but must sustain a growingly successful struggle alike with Generals Kolehak and Dcnikin. the White Guards, and the Entente troops.— Aijs. N.Z. Cable Assoc. CORPSES IN MOSCOW. INTELLECTUALS FORCED TO REMOVE THEM. Received May 16, 8.30 pjn. The Hague, May 13. Polish newspapers state that the corpses of four thousand people shot by Red Guards in Moscow during the hunger riots remained in the streets for several days until intellectuals were harnessed to carts and compelled to remove them I Those refusing to work were shot. — Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.