RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ALLIES' POLICY. AGAINST BOLSHEVIKS AND GERMANS. - • PLUNDER BY THE ENEMY. ■ By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Received Oct 17, 55 pan. London, Oct. 16. All the newspapers are demanding an authoritative explanatory statement of policy regarding Russia, especially in connection with the Allies' precise relations with the various White Russian Armies and the Baltic States; also the relations of these armies and the States with each other. The question is asked what will happen when Bolshevism finally collapses. Will the influence behind the new Russian Government or Governments be Gerfnan or Allied? It is authoritatively stated that General Baraondt is impudently asserting without foundation that he is representing the so-called Russian Govern" ; went, whereas he is really a mere adventurer, who received, and probably is still receiving, the support of Yon der Golfer's German Army. Other parties concerned are the Gerrnan Government, which evaded the Entente's demands to withdraw its troops from the Baltic States and the NorthWest Russian Government. The Russian elements in General Bennondt's Army were originally recruited from this iouTee. The Russian North-Wes't Army, from which General Berntondt was dismissed, is now entirely out of sympathy ■with his present action. The Allies' policy has always been to prevent the Baltic States being overton by Bolsheviks or Germans, and with that aim, to get Von der Goltz and his Germans out of the country. The present position roughly ia that the Germans and the Russians have over-run Latvia *>g far as a line from the mouth .of tie XH'ina to Mi£hu and Shalvia, and havf> failed decisively to defeat the Lettish |fcra»y.

. As General Bermondt is now diabwned by everybody and is outlawed by Sudeniteh, who is Koltchak's representative, the Lettish Government hopes, with the assistance of Esthonian and Lithuania and the goodwill of the Entente, to recover all that has been lost, and to liquidate the German menace for. fever.

A Lettish communique dated the lath. bat states: Our position is secure. We fuwe fought our way.across the Dvina pud the operations are developing favorably. • , An Omsk telegram states the Boltheviks in their retreat are taking away fell the population between sixteen, and (Rfty years of age, together with cattle. The latest authoritative news from South Russia shows that Denikin's extreme left has taken Chernigov, and is Wvancing northward along the east of pnieper, towards Gowel. The right centre has crossed the Don on a two Imndred mile front at Voronej to eighty miles nos/h-west of Tharitsin, driving back the Bolsheviks everywhere northeast and northward. In East Russia, pwing to the demands of the other fronts, the Bolsheviks are reduced to a isfcrict defensive line behind the Tobol line.—Renter. POLSHEVDI COLLAPSE PREDICTED. MUTINY AMONGST REGIMENTS. i DEFENSIVE TOWARDS PETROGiRAD. if Received Oct. 17, 6.5 pjn. London, Oct. 16. The Australian Press Association teams, from information from North Russia, of reports of mutiny among two Bolshevik regiments, which refused to go to the front line. Similarly a regipnent detailed to raid lines of communication refused to proceed. The enemy' is evacuating Onega in (great disorder, and have retired so rapidly that the Russians have lost toueh. The inference is that the Bolsheviks have withdrawn all btft inferior troops for use in Petrogradr and bn the South Russian fronts. Yudenitch's offensive towards Pelrograd is excellently devised on a 75-mile front. He advanced in six columns, supported on both flanks By Esthoniaos and aided by tanks. The enemy fought tenaciously at Lnga. A complete arSonred train was captured at Volosovo. lie enemy is now retiring hastily on £he whole front. Southward of Luga, Yudenitch in two flays penetrated over forty miles. The advance has created disorder and contateraation in Petrograd. According to unconfirmed reports Gatfebina was captured by the Bolsheviks who opened a general attack on the west bank of the Volga, north-west of fTsaritsin, but were repulsed heavily. General Denikin, having laid hands jjm the whole of South Russia, has in. his armies five-fold. Me is complete master over the Bolsheviks and grows in power daily. There is little probability of the Bolsheviks checking . the advance. Since May, General Denikin has captured a quarter of a million prisoners. The Siberians have reached Tobol on a 90-mile front, and on both sides of Kb* Kurgan they have thrown patrols •cross at various points. The Bolißhevikg destroyed the railway bridge at Kurgan. Meanwhile the Ural Cossack? are attacking Uralsk irom three sides. Generally speaking the military collapse of the Bolsheviks throughout Sushis is withiu the bounds of possibility. {The Poles and the Ukrainians nave extended the armistice for a further thirty Jays. Insurgents led by Turkish officers ab•y lacked Derbent, 130 miles north-west of JBatonm. The Georgians are apparently fonwnting the movement with the asWttaaee of German intriguers. There |k also modi Bolshevik activity in Baku-«hAui.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BOLSHEVIK RETREAT. P London, Oct. 16. - _Yudsnitdi is on the eve of capturing ffsarskoye Selo. According to a telegram from Omsk Uie Bolshevik retreat on Koltchak's front is general. „ BOLSHEVISTS WEAKENING. •a, • Copenhagen, Oct. 15. The Bolshevisk resistance is weakening jrapidly. The Red Army is only fighting because 'the soldiers fear the machine gunners posted in their rear with orders to fire on fugitives and cowards.—Aus.-N.Z. patdeAssttj