RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

SON DER GOLTZB TROOPS.

COMPLETELY OUT OF HAND,

Mir Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Aug. 30; 12.30 a.m. London, Aug. 28. • The Chronicle's Berlin correspondent states that Von der Goltz's refractory troops in Lettland, the so-called Iron Division, are notoriously difficult to manage. They number 40,000, are seasoned, well led, and well' equipped, and they consider themselves the personal following of the Baltic Barons, to whom they art. undoubtedly intensely loyal. They bate the -Government, which fears them Its a future weapon of reactionary movejnentu The Independent Socialists have long urged the Government to disband them, but the Government frankly admits they are beyond control, and content* itself with pointing out that the jUlitf peace, terms moat be fulfilled.

JN WESTERN LITHUANIA. GERMANS AND RUSSIANS jpERRORISING COUNTRYSIDE. st#ived Aug. 90, 1.40 a.m. Paris, Aug. 28. -thirty-seven thousand German troops in Western Lithuania, together with three thousand Russians, completely corfftrol the railways. Tljey openly refer to the approaching Russo-German-Japanese understanding, and claim they and they Koltchakißts will all wear German uniforms, with Russian emblems. They have established a well organised headquarters at Shaule, where there are 180 aeroplanes and a hundred motor cars. Troops are ttUetted throughout the district, and terrorisms th* population, stealing horses, requisitioning food and money, •ttflr constantly destroying property, It is believed locally the Germans are peeping up communication with the Bol•hevika at Dvinsk by means of aeroplanes, but the Germans boast they are preparing an offensive against Petrograd. >-Au6.'-N.2. Cable Attn.

1 CONFLICTING REPORTS. BOLSHEVIKS IN BAD POSITION. London, Aug. 28. It is stated that, notwithstanding Bolshevik wireless reports, Denikin continues to make satisfactory progress. His forces advanced withtgreat rapidity towards Kief! and its fall is apparently only a matter of days. Denikin's army is within twelve miles of Petlura's troops at Vassiter. If the forces junction they will batch the whole Bolshevik forces in •n enormous pocket 260 miles deep by 150 miles wide. South of Kieff Denikin was forced to KUml. east and north-east of Kharkov to'S) strong Bolshevik counterattack. Denikin's cavalry, by a brilliant advance, entered Tambov. TheJ» captured 13,000 and forced the enemy to disperse'2o,ooo untrained men. Lenin is reported to be opening peace negotiations ,witii Roomaaia.-Aus.-N.Z. Gable Assn. she- Boifeeviks claim that the Ingur petrole, "alter several days' fighting {against Denikin, captured Vladikavkaz.

HO? WILLING TO EVACUATE.

■ London, Aug. 28. The German Government, acting on ,V<wder Goltrt advice, informed the Enteht* that it was impossible to evacuate Latvia before the latter part of September. Meanwhile the German troops mtiniie to.perpetrate outrageav-Aua.- $&. Gable Assn.

; IW6K ATROCITIB3,

*«.. v landan, Aug. 26. j£** neaww etetes that the entry W the Poles into Minsk was so sudden that the invaders captured the whole Jocal staff of the notorious commission lor combatting the counter-revolution. Injne commission's cellars, which were »Hd as torture chambers, were .found the remains of 30 Polish officers horribly mutilated. The Bolsheviks during their •ecunatlon tortured and murdered altogettte WOO people.—Reuter.

KbLSHEvTSTS' REWARDS?.

Received Aug. 29, 7.40 p.m. ' ±%. ~ London, Aug. 28. are distributing leaflets to pro-4JJy Russian troops, offering £50,000 tot "those scoundrels Generate Roddart* «sd Yiujenitch, dead or alive.»ißww Service.