RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

; BRITISH APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE., THE CLOVEN HOOF OF THE HUN. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Sept. 9. Lieut.-Colonel Sherwood Kelly, in a message to the Trade Union Congress, says: "Don't forget your brothers across the sea. You must get our men out of North Russia. Get them out quick or it will be too late."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Stockholm, Sept. 9. Refugees are arriving in Poland from [Russia in great numbers. They state that German agents in the small towns have established anti-Bolshevik societies and hold meetings semi-publicly. The Germans, therefore, are simultaneously officering the Bolshevik army and fighting the Bolsheviks under Levien and instigating opposition against the Bolshevik Cable Assn. AN AUSTRALIAN FEAT. BOLSHEVIKS PUT TO FLIGHT. ' Received-Septi 10, 7.40 p.m. London, Sept. 9. A member of the first Australian contingent which went to north Russia, and returned to England convalescent with a leg wound, says the contingent joined the 45th Fusiliers at Dosinova, on the Dwina, and he describes the fighting on August 10, in which the Australians .participated.

The attack was characteristically daring on the part of the British, as the Bolsheviks outnumbered! them tenfold. When the barrage ceased twenty cheering Diggers led a company through village after village on the bank of the Dwina. taking fifty prisoners. Fighting of a desperate kind' occurred in • the forest country and swamp, wherein many perished. The offensive . demoralised the enemy, who. fled for forty versts, leaving nineteen guns and over two thousand prisoners. The senior British officer attributed the success to the "devilish keen splits" of the Aussies.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. SIBERIAN FRONT. KOLTCHAK'S SWEEPING SUCCESSES Received Sept. ,11. 1 a.m. " Paris, Sept. 10. Admiral Koltdhak reports sweeping successes on the whole Siberian front. The enemy was repulsed with great losses and ia .fleeing • everywhere, abandoning prisoners and war materials.— Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc., ■ LITHUANIANS BEAT BOLSHEVIKS. (Received Sept. 11, 12.15 a.m. " Paris, Sept. 10. It is reported that peace negotiations I between the Lithuanians are imminent.— Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. Received Sept. 11,1 a.m. Stockholm, Sept. 10. It is reported that the Lithuanians captured' Dvinsk, inflicting a severe defeat on the Bolsheviks. This explains the latter's anxiety to negotiate peace. A PEACE PROPOSAL. London, Sept. 0. A Moscow wireless report states that the Soviet Government has accepted the Esthonians' proposal to negotiate for peace at Pskoff on the 10th.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.