WAR IN RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1920, Page 5

WAR IN RUSSIA.

EUROPE IN DANGER. ALL NATIONS MUST COMBINE. By Telegraph.—-Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Jan. 4. A Bolshevik wireless states that owing to defeats a new Government has been established at General Denikin's headquarters with General Romanoffsky replacing General Denikin.—Reuter. London, Jttn. 4. Mr. Garvin, writing in the Observer, says the effective hemming in of the Bolsheviks is possible only by the cooperation of Japan Rnd India on one side and Germany on the other. He suggests that the Allies secure Germany's assistance, offering modification of the territorial and indemnity provisions of the Peace Treaty, whieh are untenable in any case. It Is futile to deny that Lenin and Trotsky are thorough leaders and proved brilliant organisers and strategists who have utterly outmatched their opponents.—United Service. London, Jan. 5. Advices from Russia state that the Reds are completely in possession of the Donetz coal basin. Their cavalry is 20 mile? from Tananrog. Denikin's troops are fleeing panic-stricken. They evacuated Tsaritsyn, which was the principal bulwark of Denikin's right wing. The Red 3 are at the gates of the Cossack capital, Novokherkassk. Denikin's overthrow is not confirmed, but the position of his armies is desperate. The Allies are sending steamers to evacuate civilians from Odessa.

Dr. Harold Williams, in a delayed telesram from Rostoff, jrivcg a glimpse of the vast Tetreat in bitter winter over tlie icy Russian steppes. A great migration precedes the soldiers. Traders, workmen, women, and children are abandoning everything and hurrying away in trains, carts, and on foot. Peasants and Cossacks are moving southward' in great caravans with herds of cattle, horses and camels, as though flying from a tarror that walketh by day. Upon the issue depends the stability of Europe, for the Bolsheviks are certain to turn elsewhere for conquests. The Times, in an editorial says that surelv none can minpose the triumphant Bolsheviks will wallow contentedly until it dies from its own putridity. The more it decays at the centre the more it will press outwards into China, Poland, Armenia, and India. Teheran, -lan. 3. Soviet, troops captured Krasnovodsk on the east coast of the Caspian Sea and arc reported to be predominant at Baku. —Times.