RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

Press, Issue 16678, 12 November 1919, Page 9

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

SOVIET'S PEACE TERMS,

(By Cable—Press —Copyngit.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, November 8.

Colonel Cecil Malone has published tho full text of the Russian Soviet's eo-called "Peace Terms." A reply is demanded by November loth. The text concludes:—"The Soviet Government hopes it will not be necessary to transfer this offer to the Central Powers." Mr Bonar Law stated that before negotiations wero begun with the Bolshevists the House of Commons would have an opportunity of discussing the matter. YUDENITCH'S CAMPAIGN. STOCKHOLM, November 8. General Yudeniteh's reverses are increasing, and tlie position is considered critical, because the Bolshevik cavalry is operating against Slutka, in the rear of General Yudenitc-h. A flank attack is also feared. The army's fate now depends on the tenacity of the Esthonians at Ropscha, where they are throating the Bolsheviks' right flank. A' GERMAN REVERSE. LONDON, November 8. The "War Office announces that, covered by the Allied squadron's bombardment, 'the Letts advanced 10 miles and drove Colonel Bermondt's troops from the immediate suburbs of Riga. INTERVENTION OPPOSED. PARIS, November 8. Six hundred railwaymen suspended work for the purpose of holding a meeting at which they favoured a general strike to prevent intervention in Russia.