RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

CgONSTADT ATTACKED,

S* BRITISH WARSHIPS ANB 'PLANES.

By Telegraph —Press Am—Copyright. Received Aug. 31, 5.5 p.m. Helsingfors, Aug. 29. ft is reported that British warships and aeroplanes violently attacked KronBtadt for two hours on Thursday afternoon. Details are awaited.—Aut-N.Z. PaMe Assn.

SEVERE FIGHTING AT KRONSTADT. , FALL OF PSKOFF. •fiec»ived Aug. 31, 11.30 p.m. London, Aug. 30. Aviators over Kronstadt on Thursday reported severe fighting in the streets ana sgaares, also numerous corpses in the thoroughfares. Tl>e fall of Pskoff is the first result of the concentration of 40,000 Bolsheviks against Esthonia as a counter move to tjie intended attack on Petrograd. The Bolsheviks admit having been driven out of Bobruisk, but claim the gptareof Bylsk, and that they have Ale «r further advance towards Ustmo-ayreditskaya.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

BOLSHEVISTS HEAVILY DEFEATED. FURTHER ATROCITIES. Received Aug. 30, 2.40 p.m. Omsk, Aug. 28. South-west of Troitsk the .Bolshevik fortes Were heavily defeated, and forced to retreat. A Soviet regiment wasdepi"ttyed ana* 14,000 taken prisoner, ■ Fugitives from Kieff state that Bol> til eviks continue to imprison arid murder the inhabitants, including officials of the Polish legation. The arrest of 6000 Poles was recently ptftrtd, of whom only 600 escaped.

RED TERRORISM. AS A MEANS OF BOLSHEVIST ' PROGRESS. • Received Aug. 30, 2.40 p.m- . : Stockholm, Aug. 28. Linin, speaking at Moscow on the defeat of Bolshevism in Budapest, said the %wifr enemies of Bolshevism were moderate Socialists, who also menaced Bol•Letistt in Russia. The only efficient Wfapon,. against moderation was red terror, i It was the failure of the Hungarian communists to use terrorism that caused their downfall This is the first time Lenin has proBounced himself in favor of terrorism.— Beutw Service.

CAWtJEE OF RAILWAY FRONT.

AUSTRALIANS CONSPICUOUS, Received Sept. 1, 1130 a.m. London, Aug. 31. The Sunday Express' Archangel correspondent states that after British aeroplanes- 'bombed the. Bolshevik lines at jYema, Russian troops, assisted by 200 Australians, attacked and captured the whole railway front, including Yemza, also all the guns, 500 prisoners, and four Bolshevik commissaries.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable a&Sßta.

GERMAN PRISONERS. LARGE INFLUX IN SIBERIA. Received Aug. 31, 1150 p.m. Berlin, Aug. 30. Owing to the advance of the Bolsheviks Jn Siberia there has been a large influx of. German prisoners of war. The Moscow, Lettish, and Lithuanian Governments will not allow the passage of the German prisoners assembled at Dvinsk. The feeling of the prisoners •t-Mqscow and Dvinsk has caused great difficulties.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.