WAR IN RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1919, Page 5

WAR IN RUSSIA.

PEACE IN THE BALTIC. THE GERMANS EVACUATE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Dec. 21, 5.5 p.m. London, Dec. 18. The Australian Press Association learns that the Bolsheviks inserted three secret clauses in the peace terms with the Baltic States as follows:—(1) Relations must cease with all States at war with the Soviet (these include the Entente and Finland); (2) the expulsion of all foreign warships frbm the Northern Baltic; (3) the opening of Baltic ports to the Bolsheviks, with Reval as a free port The German evacuation of the Baltic is now completed. Although there is no authentic information it is believed the Bolsheviks have occupied Kieff. Their advance continues uninterruptedly. The Bolsheviks, however, are confronted with internal difficulties. Sixteen thousand workmen and peasants rebelled at Bryansk. The Bolsheviks continue their successes in East Russia. They have occupied Novonikolaiev,- four hundred miles east of Moik.—Aus:-N.Z. Cable Assn. PEACE WITH ESTHONIA. THOUGHT TO BE IMPOSSIBLE. Received Dec. 21, 5.5 p.m. Copenhagen, Dec. 18, The Esthoniari Legation at Reval 'do Hot believe in the possibility of peace with the Bolsheviks, who are delaying all important questions.—Aus.-N.Z. Cabls Assn. MORE EXECUTION'S TAKE PLACE. London, Dec. 19. As the result of an anti-Bolshevik plot in Petrograd, it is reported that 300 persons have been executed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.