RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16397, 17 December 1918, Page 8

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

BOLSHEVIKS DEFEATED. (Br Cable.—Pre«« Association. —Copyright.) (Reutcr, via Amerioa.) ARCHANGEL. December 14. The Bolshevik attacks against the Russian and Allied positions, between the Dvina and the railroad near Narasevo, were repulsed with considerable losses. Fighting occuiTed in the snowclad forests. The victors secured much booty. In the Pinega soctor the Russians and Americans have withdrawn to more tenable positions than the recently captured villages far up the river. ' , . STOCKHOLM, December 14. The latest advices from Kiev that the Don Cossacks defeated the Bolsheviks in a two (lavs' battlo at Novochoperak, taking 1100 prisoners and -1 puns. The Swedish Naval Attache at Petrograd has been arrested. The message says that Bolshevist leaders heatedly discussed the question of abandoning tho entire Soviet regime. M. Lpnin favoured abandonment, while M. Trotsky opposed. The latter secured a small majority for holding; out. ALLIED TROOP 5 ? TO OC~T T PY WESTERN PROVINCES. (Australian «nd N.Z. Cable Association.l . (Received December 16th, 11.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 14. The "New York Times" Washington corre&Dondent states: "In weU-informed circles it is understood the Allied troops will occupy the western provinces of Russia when the German forces evacuate them. The Russian populations of th/se territories have asked for protection against the Bolsheviks."