RUSSIAN CAMPAIGNS.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 201, 25 August 1919, Page 5

RUSSIAN CAMPAIGNS.

REINFORCEMENTS IN NORTH. BOLSHEVIK SURRENDERS. OTHERS WAITING JL CHANCE.' (By Cable.—.Press Association.—Copyright.) i ("Received 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, AugUßt 24. The Christiania "Tidenstegn's" correspondent on the Murman coast states that large British transports laden with troops and ammunition are arriving daily. The arrivals outnumber those leaving for Home. The Esthonian Press Agency announces that a regiment of "Red" troops in the Pedsevy district surrendered without lighting, also the former Com-mander-in-Chief of the "Red" army, in Livonia surrendered to the Lettish Government. General Blakoviteh predicts that Petrograd will be captured before October. Ho believes that half the "Red" army is awaiting a favourable opportunity to surrender. His advance awaits further war material from the Entente. A Bolshevik communique admits extensive retreats, involving the abandonment of Minsk and KiefT and some provinces westward of the Dneiper, including Podolia and Volhynia. The communique claims to have recaptured Kamishin, where they recently lost 11,000 nun. The recapture would be a serious blow to Denikin's right.. ' Peasant risings against the Soviet power have facilitated the rapid advance of General Petlura's and the Western j Ukrainian combined armies. The. whole line Ls sweeping on irresistibly. Great rejoicings in the liberated areas mark the retirement of the Bolsheviks.—(A and N.Z. Cable.) LENIN ADMITS FAILURE. SEEKING A COALITION.

(Received 12.45 p.m.)

GENEVA, August 24. A traveller from Moscow reports interviewing Lenin, who is convinced of the impossibility of carrying out Bolshevik ideals. He is consulting Russian business men with a view to ending the country's desiderate situation. Lenin ! told him that he was willing to denationalise industries, convoke a National Assembly, end personally retire, j it is reported that Lenin is negotiating with anti-Bolshevik parties! for the for- . mation of a coalition government. Trotsky is still confident of world-wide < Soviet triumph, and is devising new j propaganda and plans for Western ' Lurope — (A. and N.Z. Cable.) DENIKIN TAKES ODESSA, PROGRESS BY THE POLES. INTRACTABLE ESTHONIANS. ,Dy Cable. - Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, August 24. The War Office learns that General Dcnikin's troops have occupied Odessa. Tin: Rumanians crushed an attempt made by Bolshevik forces to cross the | mouth of the Dniester, west of Odessa, I on August 20. They captured seven guns, '20 convoys of supplies, and several I hundred prisoners. A Polish official communique states' that the Poles have captured Kovno, in Volhvuia. Polish forces operating further north j inflicted a crushing defeat on the Bolsheviks at Slutsk, south of Minsk, cajituring an entire brigade, including General Grigorieff and his staff. The Poles now hold the entire railway from Vilna to Kovno and Prody. The lighting capacity of the Bolshevik | fleet is completely broken. Attacks by j aeroplanes at Kronstadt have destroyed immense stocks of ammunition. Goussef, a member of the Bolshevik ' Supreme Defence Commission, in aj speech, declared that it was inevitable, that Bolshevik power should becrmii' ex- I hausted. New enemies were steadily appearing. The Bolsheviks would be | forced to negotiate with the Allied Imperialists, to prant capitalists important | concessions, and to recognise the indepen- ! dence of the frontier countries. The l"krainian Press Bureau states I that in the election for the Communal 1 Councils the Bolsheviks were crushing!}' ! defeated, polling only a third of the! votes, despite terrorising measures adopted by the Bolsheviks. Dr. Harold Williams, writing to the J "Daily Chronicle" from Kharkoff, after j an extensive tour in the Poltava district of South Russia, recently liberated by General Dcnikin's troops, describes tho intense joy of the inhabitants in the liberated towns after the terrors of the "red regime," when no one was sivur* against raids, arrests, confiscations, and ! secret executions. The so-called nationalisation of trade and transport forced . up prices to fantastic figures, and drove I goods off the market until Poltava ! neuruv starved, although for hundreds of miles around were glorious steppes, I everywhere richly cultivated, and yield- ! ing an abundant harvest. Reapers were busy in every field, yet the price of a loaf in Poltava was 500 times the normal price. The entry of General Dcnikin's Guards and Cossacks into Poltava was a memorable scene.- Women and children wept for joy. They kissed the hands of the Britisii General Holman, and carried him on their shoulders. Tho Helsingfors corres-pondent of the "Daily Express" states that the Estonians have refused to accept the guarantee offered by the North-west Russian Government to recognise the independence of Ksthonia. which they demanded as a condition for their participation in a combined attack on Petrograd. The disruption of the Esthonian Cabinet followed. It is now generally believed that nothing short of a. miracle will effect the fall of Petrograd this year.—(A. and N.Z. Cable 1