RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

RAVAGES OF CIVIL WAR, r ' — fjg£L DISTRICTS MOBILISED. ' $7 Telegraph.—Press Aon.—Copyright. . London, July 4. ■ Mr. Wilton, & correspondent who faversed Admiral Koltchak's front and joined General Deniken's armies, telegraphs: 'This civil war is terrible. It is typhus-stricken, replete with wounds god death, yet unlike other wars. There are no trenches and no front line. The opposing forges hold villages whence •re thrown out pickets and they periodically attempt to capture other viltages which may be miles away. The white forces shojw a sterling spirit"Christians, Moslems, and the whole population of the Ural districts demanded jnobflhation in order to protect their families from Bolshevik reprisals. What heed are shirts to give them a chance of escaping typhus, which is filial®)? the hospitals quicker tHun wounds."—

XH2 CAPTURE OF PETROGRAD. /RETMTED BY DIPLOMATS. : 1 ' London, July 4. a neismgfors correspondent states |hat the diplomats at Paris alone prejrant the capture of Petrograd. The reason is obscure, but unless taken in two jnoqtln it will be too late to avoid another fccrOle winter of starvation.

JEEE ORDER TO QUIT. Copenhagen, July 4. Is the result of Allied mediation an inaistiee between the Esthonian and Ithe German .troops was signed at Riga ion July 3. It provided that Imperial German troops shall evacuate Lettland (quickly, and both the Imperial troops mad, Bjsltio Landwehr leave Riga by «•