RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 September 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

IN LITHUANIA. BOLSHEVIKS SUE FOR PEACE, By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Berne, Sept. 3. It is reported that the Bolsheviks have pommenced overtures for peace in Lithuania. The anti-Bolsheviks have captured the suburbs of Kieff.—Aus. N.Z. Cable-Assoc London, Sept. 3. The Bolsheviks admit tho loss of the southern outskirts of Kieff. RESOURCES OF THE BOLSHEVIKS. MUCH GREATER THAN GENERALLY BELIEVED.

Seceived Sept. 5, 1.30 a.m. London, Sept. •!. Colonel John Ward, a member of the House of Commons, has returned from Siberia. He says the Bolsheviks possess great resourves and command the richest manufacturing areas, whereas their enemies are obliged to rely on the agricultural areas. The Bolsheviks have practically unlimited muntions. Russia received on the eve of the revolution munitions for sixteen million troops. The Germans secured a very small portion. The Bolsheviks possess enough munitions to wage war on the present scale for a decade.—Aus.-N.Z- Cable Assn. A REPORT DENIED. Received Sept. 5, 12.45 a.m. Vancouver, Sept. 3. London denies the German report that General Gough has planned an attackon Petrograd.—Reuter.

GOVERNMENT BANK ROBBED. Received Sept. 4, 11.5 p.m. Copenhagen, Sept. 3. A gang of eighteen robbed the Government's bank at Moscow of two million roubles. This is the third robbery in a short period.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.