THE BOLSHEVIK CAMPAIGN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XL, Issue 9225, 9 February 1920, Page 5

THE BOLSHEVIK CAMPAIGN.

(Per Press Association, Copyright.) LONDON, February 7. A War Office communique states that iv the neighbourhood of the TsaritsinEkaterinodor railway the Bolsheviks obtained a footing on the south bank of the Manich. Six attempts to cross elsewhere were repulsed. Between January 28 and 38 General Deniken's troops on this front captured nine guns, 260 machine-guns, and 4000 prisoners. . The Bolsheviks occupied the isthmuses of Perekop and Chongar, leading ■to the Crimea, after 'heavy. fighting, Uut were repulsed before- the defiles, losing 600 prisoners. . The Bolsheviks continue to advance in the Odessa area. NftVV YORK, February 7. The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" says he has re<«ived information to the effect that the Bolsheviks in Turkestan are recruiting natives and. war .prisoners int« new units, and establishing militarybases. This is said to be the prelimmarv to a campaign against India. NJii'vV YO'KJi, February 7. When the Bolsheviks captured Vladivostock, the headquarters' staff of General Rozanoff finally took refuge in a. Japanese warship.' ' LONDON, February 5., 'General Yudenitch handed orer £227,000 and 250,000 Finnish marks ta the liquidators of the North-West army, iipon which lie was permitted to leave Esthonia.

LONDON, February 5. It is semi-officially stated that the Bolsheviks are still fifty miles from Odessa. The North Crimea volunteers apparently maintain t^heir hold on the isthmus *of Perekop, and Changar, which are easily defensible. The Cossacks have taken large numbers of prisoners and four guns in the fighting on the Manitos. i

The social revolutionaries at Irkutsk have been overthrown by the ''Bolsheviks without a conflict. .Practically all the coastal area round Vladivostock lias gone Red, and it is only a question of time before the movement spreads to the whole of the Amur and TJsuri districts.