RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 July 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

i ffiE "ARCHANGEL MUTRJYi WAR OFFICE STATEMENT-, KOLTCHAK PBSSSBO, Jly Telegraph.—Frew A»».—Copyright. Received July 29, 8.30 pjo. London, July 24. Explaining the mutiny oi Russians on the Archangel front the War Office states that the mutineers believed Adtniral Koltclmk'g position was irretrievable, and concluded it was useless to tetfat the Bolsheviks if the British were withdrawn. It is estimated that the Bolsheviks on all fronts number half a million. The Advance against Koltchak continues unceasingly, the commanders urging the Ked Guards to recapture Deniken's territory, 1 - which is richly supplied with tettals.—Times Service. '• , Copenhagen, July 24. A communique states that the mutiny •npng the Russians on the Onega front was due to Bolshevik propaganda. The Bifeiuu landed over the front to the enftmy. ,0n the railway front the Bol.sheiks Attacked the British when taking over the line 'from the mutineer.;. •.•JJfil enemy was repulsed. . i. ; General Ironside now controls the fHtuation. and the- fresh British volunteer* are believed to be equal to the perilous task.—Reuter., POLISH CHILDREN MURDERED. CRUELTY OF SOCIALISTS. Received July 29, 7.20 p.m. Paris, July 24. The Soviets decreed the socialisation of Polish children at Mohilev employed on forced labor. When the epidemic arose the Soviets ordered the killing of fill the sick, and 49 children were shot. f—United Service,