RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

DENIKEN'S BRILLIANT ADVANCE. ODESSA'S PATE SEALED. By Telegraph-Press Aran.-Copyrlght. '™ London, Aug. 20. ..3 he 7? r . office confirma the BoUheylks admissions that Deniken's left win<is eontinning its brilliantly successful S« B^- -^ en ' fwther northward, Sm££ BolsUev,k V"**™* <*<»»<» -Although, the Bolshevik evacuation of IWwsa is not confirmed there is no doubt UM the city's fate i a now sealed, and tku* Sov«t Russia will lose Its last foot- %? n tl,e Btack § ea "oast. The Australian Press Association learns that the authorities wiU issue in »Ja» days a lengthy account of Ger- ' ntr, s?v , fa Limi * s ince the I "^ ice - Tll « d*l»y In Von der Gcltz's >• "???* 1, * l JW w w that Germany has not abandoned her design of extending her influence i* the Baltic States and regainjUjf there something in compensation W What she has lost beyond the Rhine, flntereft centre* for the moment on fleniken's Western front. Probably his alcana wjU shortly bring him into touch flgth the .Allied troops on the left iiank JJig will be the signal for an uprising of th ß whole of the Ukraine. The latest information shows the total of the 80l- - nhevist troops on all fronts to be 485,000, with 727,000 troops of an inferior kind in the interior. :.the Bb)gh«viets completely devastated . the etanlfeas of the upper Don. The population has undergone unspeakable entities. Children were killed in their cradtca, and old people were surrounded With straw and burned. Five thousand *•«* : executed in Higulingkya and MftMtskaya, and 942 men shot in three •the* staniteas.—Aus. N.Z. Ceile Assoc.

THE MURMAN FRONT. ANGLftRUSSIAN ATTACK. Received Aug. 22, 9.15 p.m. London, Aug. 21. A War Office communique states: Following artillery bombardment, we attacked seven miles southward of Kapa*>lga, on the Murman front, drove out ■Jld pursued the enemy for several miles, ftapturing prisoners and inflicting losses. + i.^ 0 * Rv,BR - in troops dispersed the many at Shunga Peninsula and took 89 prisoners. They also captured a village southward of Shunga. Two enemy forces eastward of Lake Onega attemptid to attack a village in our possession. They lost direction and attacked each •ther, suffering severe losses.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc.

THfi RED TERROR. ITS 'UNPRECEDENTED DIMENSIONS. Received Aug. 22, 9.45 p.m. Helsingfors, Aug. 21. fugitives from Petrograd report that Die red terror is of unprecedented dimensions. ... ....,.„ Peters, chief of, internal defence at Petrograd, is carrying out a mass of executions continuously for trivial offences. Even the possession of a teleKope is punishable by death. One of Peters' methods is to seize victim* during the night time, club them until they are unconscious, and throw the bodies into the Neva.—-Au9. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

EVACUATING RUSSIANS. FBOSI NORM TO SOUTH RUSSIA. r - s.' Received Aug. 22, 2.15 p.m. London, Aug. 21. hritain lias allocated ships to remove civilians who desire to leave north Russia before the British" withdrawal. Several thousand families jvill be shipped later to south Russia.—Aim. N.Z. Cable Assoc, PROPOSED ATTACK ON PETROGRAD. Copenhagen, Aug. 20. The Premier of the new north-west Russian State and other leaders of the Russian, constitutionalists are conferring •i Stockholm? They have formulated plans for an early joint attack on Petroftad. The Grand Duke Nicholas will shortly arrive, but his share in -pending operations is not disclosed.—Aim. N.Z. Cable Assoc. BLOCKADE OF BOLSHEVIK RUSSIA. London, Aug. 20. In reference to the Supreme Council's proposal to economically isolate Bolshevik Russia, the council's power of action is limited, because the United States does not recognise a state of war between the Entente and Russia, and ttfuses to join the blockade or render kelp against the Bolsheviks.