FOOTBALL.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16406, 28 December 1918, Page 9

FOOTBALL.

NEW ZEALAND DEFEATED BY WALES. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Reuter'e Telegrams.) (Received Decomber 28th, 1.50 a.m.) LONDON, December 26. In the Rugby match, Wales Bcored three points and New Zealand nil.

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS. j COMPULSORY BOLSHEVISM. j (By Cabl«.—Preea Aseociation.—Copyright) j and S.Z. Cable Association.) COPENHAGEN, December 23. j Rep&rts from Russia show that many j peoplo are joining the Bolshevik army, as the onl v chance of securing ft means of subsistence. During three weeks iu November 300,000 rocruits joined in ; Potrograd and Moscow alone The discipline is the severest. Even small thefts are punished with doatn. j ALLIED INTERVENTION. ; NEW YORK, December 2<>. Tho Paris correspondent of the "New York Times" says that there , is strong indignation in official circles , at the Allied Governments deciding not to intervene with a large force i" ; Russia. _ „ • .00 )■ LONDON, December 23. ; President Wilson will consult witii 1 British Ministers on Friday, when tm v j question of further Allied operations 11 ; Russia will be discussed. He will leave j England on Tuesday. i A REVOLUTIONARY SCHOOL. | COPENHAGEN, December 23. M. Scavenius, ex-Danish Minister at Potrograd. states that the Radek lias established a special revolutionary school in Moscow, where amtators » ro "} all countries, including Chinamen ana ; Irishircn. are being trained m revolu- , tionary ideas. Afterwards they will re- ; turn to their respective countries as missioners of revolution.

AMERICAN CONSUL ARRESTED. WASHINGTON, Decomber 26. It is reported that Mr Roger Treadwell, tho American Consul, has been arrested at Tashkend, capital of Russian Turkestan, at the instanoe of tne Bolsheviks, for some unknown reason. Tho State Department is hoping to secure his immediate release. RIVAL LEADERS. NEW T YORK, December 20. Dispatches from Vladivostok say that General Semenoff, the Cossack lender, has agreed to recognise Admiral Kolchak's regime, provided _ he is retired in favour of General Fenikine, hctman of the Don Cossacks. CRITICAL POSITION IN ESTHONTA. COPENHAGEN, December 23. The Swedish Consul at Roval has arrived at Stockholm, and has asked for assistance against the Bolshevik invasion of Esthonia. The posit icgi m Esthonia is critical. The Foreign Mmistcr said the Riksdag would never permit tho Swedish army to bo sent out of the country. The Consul is now soeking British assistance. IMPORTANT CONFERENCES. BOLSHEVIKS DEFEATED. (Received December 27t!h, 7.80 p.m.) PARIS, December 23. Prince Lvoff and M. Kokovtsoff, exPremier of Russia, have arrived, and are holding important conferences with the Ambassador and other leading Russians. "Le Matin" says that Admiral Kolchak gravely defeated the Bolsheviks in the Perm district, and also overthrew the revolutionary Government at Saniara. Admiral Kolchak is now in communication with M. Sazonoff, head of the Government of the Don region. The whole of south-east Russia is now emancipated from Bolshevik influence. SOVIET GOVERNMENT IN LITHUANIA. ' (Rputer's T»lfegntn».) (Received December 27th, 7.80 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, December 23. A Soviet Government has been established in Lithuania, with headquarters at Riga. BESSARABIA JOINS ROUMANIA. (Reuter's Telegrams.) PARIS, December ?3. Advices from Jassy. state that th© Bessarabian National Council has voted in favour of definite union without reservation, with Roumania.

■ Bessarabia is in tho south-west' of Russia, on the Roumanian frontier. A GENERAL MOBILISATION. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Asaocia>Uoa.) (Received December 28th, 1.50 a.m.) STOCKHOLM, December 24. ' Apparently a general mobilisation is being prepared in Russia. The People's Commissaries have ordered to the colours all officers under fifty years of age, colonels to fifty-five, and generals to sixty. THE ALLIES' POLICY. PARIS, December 24. M. Pichon told the Committee on Foreign Affairs that the Allies intended to continue the policy of resisting Bolshevism in Russia, but without armed intervention. BOLSHEYIKS~AT WARSAW. C'The Time*.") (Received December 28th, 1.50 a.m.) LONDON, December 24. Mr Jeffries cables that several groups of Bolsheviks arrived at Warsaw at Yuletide, including a so-called Red Cross delegation, which stayed at a leading hotel. Tho delegation subsequently rented- several large houses, whence flowed lavish streams of money for propaganda and bribery. The authorities, alarmed at its activities, I arrested thirty of the members and found in their possession nearly two million roubles. A PEACE PROPOSAL. LONDON, December 27. M. Litvinoff, on behalf of the Russian. Government, has sent a note to tho Allies proposing peace.