BOLSHEVIK WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 January 1920, Page 5

BOLSHEVIK WAR.

THE POSITION REVIEWED, j PAST WEEK'S FIGHTING. By Telegraph-—Press Assa.—Copyrlfht. ■ Received Jan. 31, 12.35 am. 1 _ London, Jan. 29. The authoritative weekly summary ffcys the Dolsheviks are widely distribut|#g a proclamation amongst the troops dividing the Whites into two categories, the first to comprise capitalists, their (ons and officers, and the second those frho. like the Cossacks, are anti-Bolshe-vik became they are ignorant. The proclamation urges the cessation of unf necessary killing the latter, but repiemphasises the necessity of exterminating the first. The Letts continue to advance bril- ' on * front of ninety miles and JiaYe attained a depth of sixty-fire miles. A Lett army of forty-five thousand reached a line from "the Lutzin Jtiver to Saiy&aka in South Russia. The Bolsheviks, after regrouping their forces sad restoring their lines of comtnunication, are re-advancing, firstly in Jha direction of Crimea, and secondly ■oath-westward against Kherson and jPttkkolaieff. . In the Odessa area progress across the Isthmus is at present stemmed. Wit Bolsheviks occupied Elisavitgrad. •I'm Don Army is maintaining its poeiitions oa the Sal and the Don in face of Rigorous attempts to force a passage. The Russian retreat continues most fbTdttly. Ihe Bed cavalry are gaining tlowly at a cost of severe losses. The fighting spirit of Denikin's men has re-—Aua.-N.Z. Cable Assn.