ANTI-BOLSHEVIKS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18129, 19 July 1924, Page 13

ANTI-BOLSHEVIKS.

OPERATIONS IN RUSSIA. WELL-ORGANISED GROUPS. (BY GABM—TBBSS ASSOCIATION—COPSSKOTT.) ("THI Tims.") LONDON, July 17. /The Riga correspondent of "The Times" says that messages from a trustworthy Leningrad source confirm th e recent reports that new, well-organised anti-Bolshevik groups have been active in various parts of North-YVest Russia. Towards the end of June they began operations simultaneously in the Vitebsk, Tver, Pakoff, Leningrad and Novgorod provinces, and last week raided the towns of Kholm, Veleah, Ostashkov and Raheff, where they occupied the Soviet buildings, hanged Communists, and freed prisoners, and then retired to the forests. Their objects are to make the position of the Communists outside the big centres difficult without considerable military support, and to convince the Soviet masses that the Moscow Government is impotent against determined organised action. They thereby bop© to gain recruits for further action on a larger scale.