BOLSHEVIKS IN ODESSA

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 35, 10 February 1920, Page 5

BOLSHEVIKS IN ODESSA

PROGRESS IN CAUCASIA.

DEBACLE OP THE CZECHS. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LOXDOX, February 9. The Bolsheviks have entered Odessa.— (Renter.) A wireless message from Moscow states that Tiflis and Kutais, in TransCaucasia, arc now in the power of the Bolsheviks.—(A. and X.Z. Cable.) It is reported the Bolsheviks have risen ngainst the Japanese on the Island of Saghalien, o(T the east coast of Siberia. Im|)ortant raining and petroleum properties nre being attacked. A rescue party has been sent to aid the defenders. Baron Kato, Governor-General of Korea, interviewed at Seoul, said that Japan was compelled cither to withdraw her troops from Siberia or determine to assist liussia unreservedly and iind a new centre of influence in Siberia. A wireless message from Moscow states that the Czech corps, which two years ago was a formidable force of 30,000, constituting the main pillar oT the counter revolutionary army, is now reduced to miserable disorganised bands. Tens of thousands are dead. The abandonment of the scheme to permit trade with the Russian co-operative societies is probable, owing to tlie action them under Government control. France persists in her attitude of no intercourse with Russia—(A. and X.Z. Cable.)