DENIKIN'S SUCCESSES.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 183, 4 August 1919, Page 5

DENIKIN'S SUCCESSES.

POLTAVA CAPTURED. OVER 5000 PRISONERS. TROTSKY'S ADMISSION. (By Cable—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, July 31 (delayed). The War Office announces that General Denikin, the leader of the anti-Bolshevik forces in South Russia, has captured Poltava with great booty. His success is important strategically, commercially and politically. In a further communique the War Office reports that General Deniken achieved a great victory in capturing Kamish. Five thousand prisoners were i taken and also many guns. General Denikin pursued the fleeing enemy 12 miles An intercepted wireless message from Moscow reveals that Trotsky, uddressing representatives of the Soviets on July •29, admitted that the position in South Russia was critical. A portion of the Red Army, he said, had joined the enemy. Famine was terribly menacing. Eight British aeroplanes vigorously bombed the fortress of Kronstadt, in the Gulf of Finland, on July 30. All returned, despite heavy hostile fire from the fortress. General Sir Henry Rnwlinson, who commanded the Fifty Army in France during the last year "of the war, is proceeding to North Russia to supervise the British evacuation. The War Office is sending a force of Royal marines to North Russia to assist the safe evacuation of British troops from Archangel I and Murmansk. The Bolsheviks claim that they have advanced 14 miles north of Lake Onega. After the Russian National troops mutinied they arrested their officers and joined the Bolsheviks. Polish forces are within 18 miles of Minsk, in WeSt Russia. The Bolsheviks claim the capture of Chelyabinsk Junction, 300 miles southeast of Perm, thus securing control of a large industrial district in the Ural region. A Bolshevik wireless message states that as French warships fired on repatriated Russian troops at Otchakoff, in the Black Sea, the Bolsheviks have taken foreign hostages to prevent a recurrence of such attacks. The Stockholm correspondent of the 'Morning Post' states that the Bolshevik Government is making serious efforts to secure reconsiliation with the bourgeoisie and intellectuals in Russia. Technical experts are now receiving much higher salaries than the Communists. The Bolsheviks are also ready to make important concessions with any country willing to open trade with Russia. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.) Poltava is a town of sixty thousand people on a tributary of the Dnieper, SS miles south-west of Kharkoff and 300 miles north-east of Odessa. Its capture implies thnt Denikin is still strongly on the aggressive, despite the Bolshevik assertion that he was being thrust back on the Black Sea. £3,000,000,000 IN ARREAR. LONDON, July 28 (delayed). The Russian Bolshevist Budget for the Ifirst half of the year, 1919, reveals a deficit of £3,000,000,000. — (A. and N.Z.)