LATE CABLES.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 5, 6 January 1920, Page 6

LATE CABLES.

DENIKINS DEBACLE. PANIC-STRICKEN FLIGHT. A NATION IN RETREAT. BOLSHEVISM'S NEXT HOVE. (Beceived 2.50 p.m.) LONDON, January 5. Advices from Russia state that the Bolsheviks are completely in possession of the Donetz coal basins. Their cavalry is twenty miles from Taganrog, and Denikin's troops fleeing panic-stricken. They have evacuated Tsaritsyn, which was the principal bulwark of General Denikin's right wing. The Reds are at tnc , C; '^- s * of the Cossack capital, Novo Cherkassk. Denikin's overthrow is no confirmed, hut the position of his armies is desperate. The Allies are sending steamers to evacute civilians from Odessa. Dr. Harold Williams, in a delayed telegram from Rostoff, gives a glimpse of the vast retreat in the bitter winter over icy Russian steppes. A great immigration precedes the soldiers; traders, workmen, women and children are abandoning everywhere and hurrying away in trains, carts, and afoot. Peasants and Cossacks are moving southward in great caravans, with herds of cattle, horses, and camels as though flying from the terror that walketh by day. Upon the issue depends the stability of Europe, for the Bolshevists are certain to turn elsewhere for conquests. A "Times" editorial says:—"Surely' none can suppose triumphant Bolshevism will wallow contentedly until it does from its own putridity. The more it decays at the centre the more it will press outwards into China, Poland, Armenia, and India." Soviet troops have captured Krasnovodsk, on the east coast of the Caspian Sea, and are reported to be predominant at Baku.—(Times.)

BATTLE OF WITS.

SINN *%BIN AND SCOTLAND YARD. SECRET SERVICE ORGANISED. (Received 2.45 p.m.) LONDON, January 5. The Scotland Yard and Dublin authorities are co-operating in the development of a highly efficient secret service for Ireland. Picked detectives are engaged in a battle of wits with the Sinn Feiners, the admittedly marvellous intelligence system. The "Sunday Times" Dublin correspondent says that well-known suspects are continuously watched and their movements recorded in innumerable dossiers. I Where photographs are not obtainable 1 the detectives stalk their quarry patiently to secure snapshots. The only handicap to the authorities is the absence of the informers who were available jn former times.—(United Service.)

HEMMING IN BOLSHEVISM.

GEKKANYS KET.P NEEDED. (Received 2.45 p.m.) LONDON", January 5. Sir. J. L. Garvin, writing in the "Observer, - * says that the effective hemming in of the Bolsheviks is possible only by the co-operation of Japan and India on one side and Germany on the other. He suggests that the Allies secure Germany's assistance, offering modifications of territorial and indemnity provisions of the peace treaty, which arc untenable in any case. It was futile to deny that Lenin and Trotsky were thorough'leaders, and had proved brilliant organisers and strategists, who had utterly outmatched their opponents. (United Service.)