RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

BENIKEN'S ADVANCE. ; many prisoners taken. By Telegraph.—Presc Assn.—Copyright. Received Sept. 26, 10.5 C p.m. London, Sept. 25. Thq War Office states that General Deniken's successes around Tsaritsin continue. Volunteers have occupied Baronovka, taking prisoner fourteen hundred. . General Wrangle, assisted by tanks, repulsed an attack on Piehuga. The Bolsheviks crossed the Khdper river northward of its junction with the Don river and 45 miles from the front. The situation is- well in hand. General Deniken occupied Riski, but evacuated it, taking two thousand prisoners. General Maipontov has apparently Joined Deniken. It is reported that the eighth Soviet army is retiring in dissrder. The volunteers captured five thousand prisoners at Kursk and twelve hundred at Schigri. An entire battalion surrendered at Honon«vo.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoo. ARROGANT TROTSKY. DOES NOT FEAR FOREIGN INTERVENTION. .London, Sept. 25. Trotsky, in an arrogant speech at Moscow, tauntingly declared that the Soviet Government was safe and no longer feared foreign interventioa. Neither Mr. Lloyd George, M. Clemenceau, or President Wilson dared to go against the will of the proletariat of Western Europe. They were not permitted to dispatch large armies, and were compelled to confine themselves to small Volunteer forces. —United Service. The Pekin correspondent of the Times states that the situation in the Far East is complicated by the developments in Siberia, where large Czech forces are guarding the railway westward of Irkutsk. These forces will shortly be withdrawn, and the Bolshevik irregulars are likely to cut the railway jeopardising Omsk. The Japanese are the only troops available to replace the Czechs, and the question of using them in the Chinese portion of North Manchuria needs care, ful consideration, otherwise the Allies may precipitate another Chinese im.broglio rivalling that of Shantung.— Timeß Service. FAVORABLE TO PEACE. Copenhagen,' Sept. 24. The Congress of Baltic States' Socialists at Riga adopted a resolution favoring the acceptance of the Russian Soviet's peace terms on the ground that a democratic Russia was more desirable than a Koltchak Russia.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE. Paris, Sept. 25. There is a rumor on the Stock Exchange that Lenin has been assassinated —Aus.-N.Z. Cable^Assn. BRITISH TROOPS AT BATOUM. London, Sept. 25. It is now stated that, though the British are evacuating the Caucasus a detachment is to be temporarily retained in the Batoum province. SOCIALISATION OF CHILDREN. Petrograd, Sept. 25. The Bolshevik newspaper, Isvestia states that the socialisation of children is making headway. All from the age of three are forcibly taken from their parents aj>d placed in State institutions, where they are educated on Bolshevik lines. In order to protect the children, from parents with bourgeoisie sympathies their visits are forbidden. It is admitted that one of the results of the experiment has been that many children have died owing to lack of care and proper food. London, Sept. 25. The establishment of a new mining finance corporation with a capital of three millions is projected with a view to the development with British capital oT mining properties in different parts of the world, competing more effectively with American mining houses in acquiring foreign securities.—Reuter.

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