BOLSHEVIK DEFEATS.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 237, 4 October 1920, Page 5

BOLSHEVIK DEFEATS.

LOSSES ON TWO FRONTS. 'ORTY THOUSAND PRISONERS. OLISH PURSUIT CONTINUES. !y Cable- -Press Association—-opyrig_*.> fitc-clved 0 a.m.) LONDON, October 3. General Wra-x-.g-l, the anti-Bolshevik •avlcr in South Russia, in a communique totes:— "We completely destroyed seveil Bolshevik divisions in the region of .lexandrovsk. We surrounded 'Red' jrccs in the neighbourhood of Vethoetak and Crishoikos. capturing 10,000 risoncrs and an enormous amount of ar material.'' A Polish communique, states: —''v\ c re continuing the pursuit of the Bolsheiks beaten at Uda. The Second Polish .riny has taken :iO.OOO prisoners and 100 uns. All action is suspendexl in the egion of Suwnlki as a result of a.v grcement reached with Lithuania." — Reuter.) ' PERIL OF THE ' BEDS." APPEAL TO EX-CZARISTS. (Received 11.30 a.m.) PARIS, October 3. The French Foreign Office attributes he greatest importance to the reported isorders in Russia. Semi-oflieial advices ndicatc that the Soviet is exposed to lie most serious danger vet experienced. Icneral Bnisilon", for the Soviet, is cnllng on former" Czarist officers to rally to he "lied army. .Massacres of commissaries attached to he armies are occurring daily. Two undred took refuge in Germany, includng the notorious hangman Peters. Mean-,-hile General Wrangel is gaining fresh tiecesses owing to bis policy of winning lie confidence of the peasants by grantng title deeds .to the land. The Russian ensant leader General Makhuo, who has hrown in his lot with General Wrangel. nnounces the capture of Marofa, in the )onctz Valley, and the annihilation of "Red" division. — (Reuter.) WAR-WEARY RUSSIANS. EUOTS AND STRIKES IN CITIES. HKLSINOFORS, October 3. Riots and strikes nre reported to have iroken out in Petrograd, Tambov, Narva, and other parts of Russia, owing o the food shortage and war weariness. There have been many street conflicts in vhicli. it is reported, several Soviet, comnissuries were shot or beaten to death, signs of revolt among tbe armies on the Vestcru front are reported. Twelve ommitteemen, sent to Moscow from the ighting front to demand peace, wero •xccuted. It is rumoured that Trotsky ias been wounded. —(A. and N.Z. Cable.) BUSINESS WITH RUSSIA. »ESUMPTION URGED. CONDON, October 3. Many business men nre urging the lovern'mcnt to arrange an early resumpion of business with Russia on tap basis if the crucial points already accepted by lie Moscow Government. One group of iJe.rnro-ndsey firms has provisionally igrccd to a contract involving £500,000 vorth of leather go-ds for Russia. Some inns In Lincolnshire have arranged to supply agricultural machinery. Other •ontraets awaiting the Government's leeision represent £1.000.000 worth of •loth and £2.000,000 worth of textile machinery and motorcars. It i_ pointed mt that Czeeho-Slovakia is supplying litissiu with agricultural machinery, payment for which has already been deposited in the shape of platinum and diver.—l A. and N.Z. Cable. ) CLAIMS AT RIGA. WARSAW. October 3. The negotiations at Riga have taken an unfavourable turn. Joffe. the envoy Df the Russian Soviet Government, *is making more stringent demands, and declines on strategic grounds to cede Vilna. and Grodno to Poland, and claims Volhvnin, eastward of the "Bug, for Russia.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)