RUSSIAN CRISIS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9490, 2 January 1919, Page 6

RUSSIAN CRISIS.

'.■"; PARlS,'December 30. ; "Le Matin"' Nstates that Korhiloff and Alexiif h&ve raised a volunteer army in Southern' Russia to fight the Bolsheviks. STOCKHOLM, December 30.

An Esthonian communique of , Do-i cernber 26 states that the; Esthonian | troops are retreating. Theenemy lias large 'forces oh a. wide front. The Germans retreating from Dorpat are -advancing on .Riga along the coast 'plundering, thus causing encounters, between German and . Estlionian! troops. AMSTERDAM, December Sift. Petloura, the new revolutionary Ukraine leader, began operations on Dec-ember 21 by murdering many officers and imprisoning hundreds more. . Whilst, he does not avow Bolshevism, and claims.to bo a Socialist, Petloura is a young man with a chequered car--1 eer as dancer, clerk, bath attendant, and other callings. He has 30,000 followers.

PARIS, December 30. In the Chamber of Deputies-. M. Clemenceau stated that the French landed ,at Odessa without lighting.

COPENHAGEN, December 30. Reports from Riga state that while tlie commander of the British squadron was conferring with the Livonian a 1 large crowd attempted to storm the town hall, shouting "Away with the English ! Down with the Government '!" The crowd was notdispersed until several persons had been killed or wounded; '... Esthonian troops and British blueiacke'ts landed' near Narva. ■The Bolshevist warship Parpolo "bombarded the batteries on Waif Island till, a British .warship appeared, when the Parlolo and other Bolshevik warships fled, pursued. All the Bolshevist vessels ran aground.