BOLSHEVIK PERIL

Taranaki Daily News, 30 January 1920, Page 5

BOLSHEVIK PERIL

SOLUTION OF THE MENACE.

EXPULSION PROM EUROPE.

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, ] Received Jan. 29, 8 p.m. London, Jan. 28. Mr. Winston Churchill (Secretary for War), in an article in the Sunday Herald, suggests the nations of the world should expel the Bolsheviks. He says they ought to be collected and confined in a separate area on the earth's surface and left to practice their disetfsed theories at each other's expense. They ought to be deprived of the liberty to assassinate Princes, starve the middle classes, and exploit the toiling millions,— United Service. SITUATION IN THE FAR EAST. London, Jan. 27. Mr. Wilton writes from Vkdivostock that the Bolsheviks are superseding the Social Revolutionaries everywhere west of Lake Baikal as soon as the Allied troops depart. The Czechs have been waiting for a chance against Kolchak, whose regime they disliked. They attacked and disarmed Semenoff's forces sent to relieve Irkutsk. Semerioff remains at Chita like a cork tossed on the waves. He has proclaimed himself supreme ruler of Eastern Russia.—-Times Service. . FINNISH ATTACK. London, Jan, 28. Advices from North Russia state that a North Russian communique says that 2000 Finns, with machine guns and horse and reindeer transport, are attacking the famous monastery at Petchenga, with the evident intention of looting its great treasures. The inhabitants of neighboring villages are fleeing panic-stricken. —Reuter.

UKRAINIANS OPPOSE BOLSHEVIKS. Vienna, Jan. 28. • The Neue Freie Presse states that the Ukrainian army of 60,000 men is operating against die Bolsheviks in the district of Kamenetz Podolsk. It is hoped the army may check the advance of the Bolsheviks on that front.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. TYPHUS IN ESTHONIA. Received (lan. 29, 2.20 p.m. Copenhagen, Jan. 24. Spotted typhus is raging in Esthonia, causing 6,300 of Ymfeniteh's troops to return to Russia. Others have gone to the Lettish front.—Aus.-N.Zi Cable Assn.