RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 July 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

IUMMMMWi gatGHEVIKS EFFICIENT. ~T • ' ' '-n iBJltajSY OOUTROLLED BY BON • ' . pmOEBS. Of A* WON IS WEST MAY BE LOST ™ . ' IN EAST. *i ftletwph.—ftes» Aam.~C#ptfl«M. Received July SO, 2.10 p.m. London, July 25. fit. Murdoch writes that the recent Bolahevlk military successes have eon" ildetably enhanced the aeourity of the . IJoviet Govehiment. The anti-Bolshevist 1 commanders htive now no hope of defeat- ' loj the Soviet unties before the winter Compels c cessation of Indeed, ' litM ttti-Bolshevik armies urgefcttf reo#f the winter interruption for re' omflltfatlim and reauitmeflt. J jittt ttviewing the Bolshevik sue* " Mr. Murdoch says Trotsky has dismissed his highly-placed adviser*, wbaradvieed against an offensive as i t mils of baling with the Archangel cxMdjtio*. Ur. Murdoch declares that the extrication of the British force fiiay be iigMstiblay but the Bolsheviks offer to withhold attick on condition that the British forces, cttibarlf as soon as posThe fUnes' correspondent describes the ettrtttdJMiy lighting in thiß night' ieps region. The English are so tortured by myriads of mosquitoes that death from the Bolsheviks' Well-aimed shrapnel Htiiis relief. Kwry remedy tried against tit* ffldsquitoea has proved useless. The fafrfMesof £nflishmen soon become tnt4ctigt>lMUfe from the attacks of these > pelts; The Bolsheviks put the poorest ;«nwti into the front lines, lashing 1 Mt terrorising theffl into action, but behind are spletidid artillerymen, frho an AMtnihglf officered by Germans. > The correspondent adds that the Me'anything bat the demoralised '• in 4 inferior filters they were tho&ght to he. ' The War Office announces that evacu- • ition Mil he possible as soon as the Dwifla rises, when the whole force will be withdrawn. The Dallv Mail, In & leader, says that Qertta* oißeers are staffing the Botg thcvllt armies, ahd a German engineer St Mn*»W is controlling the munitloh factories. If the Allies do not proceed ftli'n cfuakde With the anti-Bolsheviks Sliitsla Will fait body and Soul into the ' MWs 4ftbe flun, and the war which ' tas so gloriously tfron in the west will he lost Inthe east. PANIC-STOIckEN PEOPLE. ' Ttf'UMfi Tfifi BOLSHEVIKS. . Received July. 30, 1.48 p.m. '• , • Loadon, Jnly 25. ' Mr, Wilton,. the press correspondent, , to * telegram ftbm Tutoan graphically firtorlbes the flight of hundreds of thousands of iwngeei Who were panie•ttti&fli before the Sdsfcerik armies. Ehe flight,eclipses the terrible exodils of IMo. All classes are participating, and are ill-fed and ill-garbed. Thousand* are barefooted, but ail Are'grimly determined to abandon everything rather than endure the Bolsheviks' presence. BftmSH QfETCfiRS MURDERED. iOtSfJfiiVllt AEMY POWERFUL rnrnnaMMMME. k ' JUerived July 30, 1.43 pm. . , London, July 25. ~ An Archangel corrwpoßdent depicts a fetttt serious situation of the anti- - BaWMvik troops, who began to mutiny Arty fltt, When a battalion formed of . rtßolAtTft:. prisoners murdered th«slr fititisfe officers and fled to the forests. Otters mutinied later. TtM fthreft British reinforcements are . ittt&itti W» tbe calibre of the elderly •: Beottiik and Yorkshire troops, who although hecvily outnumbered fot * year, by foreed manftes and dashing pattbl mm li»t» i«#ildered and browbeat the Bolsheviks. I%e eoMspMdMt regards the Pol-1 jtfievik an Movent and powerful fighting machine, withawell tmisM - artilWry. The Bolshevik* hidttde Joany thdusaAds of eonscripted peasants. £vMmatton means tho certain mas* lieM M time thousand anti-Bolsheviks at Ardangd, .hut the only alt;ecative ti WttedUe ibtte ifjnforce®ents.— IWrice,