RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

60LSHEV1KS SWEEPING ONWARDS. A LITHUANIAN SIJCCES& By T«lem(B.—Pr«M Aian.—Copyright. London, Sept.. 2. The Bolsheviks elaim the capture of the outer fortiScations of Drinsk and the capture $, four armored trains equipped wit^, jaaohjuie-guns between Sebriakors and stations, ffhey also data* tfchave reached a point 117 miles northward of Tsaritsyp. Copenhagen sports that the Bolsheviks on the Lithuanian frost have been touted and an atw suing for peace. The Lithuanian! ■re. advancing towards Vilna and searing the Polish frontier.— Am. && Cable Assoc. Berlin, Sept. 2. General Gougb. has notified the inhabitrts of Petrograd that an Allied attack iSMttinentj—Renter. | London, Sept 2, The Lithuanians surrounded the Bolftevflrt -on the lithuanianV portion of j»W front and heavy captures are exfwettii—Ana, NX Cable'Assoc.

totmsa Dwmcxm torpedoed.

Received Sept. 4, 12.35 a». London, Sept. 2. *The Atfintraßy anaomMes that, the feritish destroyer Vittoria was torpedoed Jad nuk fat ft* Baitm «* August 30, fight Jfcing drowned. ' .«> ■■ ' Received Sept. 4, 1220 a.ms Oopenhagsn; Sept. 9. ■"• V( ?» announced that Admiral Cowan tonfefs with General Gough at HelsingJors relative to combined plans against aVrograd—Aus. NZ Cable Absoc.

1 wmmm, .. Received Sept.' 4, 1.15 ajn. i'- - Copenhagen, Sept. 2. A reassuriag Eathonian official ttefefnent reports that the front, froim west )of Pskoff to the Gulf of Finland, is intact now »nd well fortified. The Bolehevik attacks made in the last few (Jays failed.—Aus; N.Z. Cable Assoc.