BOLSHEVISM IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 81, 31 December 1918, Page 5

BOLSHEVISM IN RUSSIA

INVASION OF POLAND . i A PITCHED BATTLE ) i Br Telegraph-Press ABSociation-CopyrieM ; Copenhagen, December 20. The Russian Bolsheviki are preparing '. to invade Poland, and are advancing on j Kovno and Vilna. The Polish Govern- ; ment has sixty thousand soldiers, but I little equipment, including only seventy ' guns and a few old aeroplanes. ! Poland appeals to the Allies for help. ■; —Aus.-N Z. Cable Assn. : PITCHED BATTLE REPORTED. ', Amsterdam, December 29. j A pitched battle has been fought at j Dombrova between The Bolsheviks and ! the Poles. The result is unknown.—Aus.- j NX Cable Assn. _ ... ; LUDENDORFF REPORTED IN RUSSIA j . . ■ LEADING BOLSHEVIK ABMIES. j (Rec. December 30, 7.30 p.m.) I Copenhagen, December 29. '; Russian refugees at Stockholm assert i that Ludendorff fled to Russia and in- { terviewed Lenin. They presume he as. ; suraed' command of the Soviet Army.— : fieuter. ~ j THE BOLSHEVIK PEACE NOTE \ ' 1 ORIGIN NOT RECOGNISED BY THE I ALLIES. | London, December 2". ! It is understood that the Government j will refuse to consider Litvinoff's peace j offer, since the Entente Powers''will not ; recognise the Bolshevik Government.— i Aus.-N.Z. Gable Assn. i REPORTED WITHDRAWAL OP j JAPANESE. ! New York, December 29 ! The United Press correspondent at To- j kio reports that, according to a Press i announcement, Japan will withdraw half j her army from Siberia.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable j Assn. i ■ I THE ROMANOFF MURDERS j PRINCE LVOFF.'S TESTIMONY. j London, Decem'ber 29. j Prince Lvoff (who became Premier of i Russia when the Tsar abdicated and was 1 succeeded by M. Kerensky) was interviewed in London, and said he was im- j prisoned at Ekaterinburg last spring on J a charge of engaging in a countex-revolu- i tion. A party, of prisoners was brought j in April into a large house opposite I Prince Lvoff's window, under a large ! guard, which indicated that they were ! prisoners of importance. Prince Lvoff j learned from" a fellow-prisoner, Prince ' Dolgouroki, that the new arrivals were j the ex-Tsar and his family. -The ; Tsarevitch, being at Tobolsk, did not ar- j rive at Ekaterinburg until a fortnight j later. The entire party was confined in ! one room, sixty yards smiare, with sen- , tries posted in the corridors. ; The Red Guards carried out the mur- j ders in July. The O.ccho-Slovaks soon : afterwards captured Ekaterinburg, and j a judge was appointed to investigate tho 'i crime. He decided that the whole family ! had been killed at dilferent times, and i that some members of the 'family were j compelled to witness the murder of j others. There was no doubt that all were ,i finally shot. There was evidence that | all were shot in their chaws Thirty- j six bullet holes were found in the walls, i The Bolsheviks appear also to have rid- I died the bodies after they had fallen to j the floor, which was stained with blood i and pitted with bullets. Prolwbly the : bodies were incinerated, rs human re- ! mains and jewellery, including a cross i Mounted with emeralds belonging to-the j Empress, were discovered in another ! part of the town. Subsequently all tho j occupants of the prison, numbering I eiuhty-ciiibt, except Prince Lvoff and j Prince Dolgouroki, were murdered, and j the Tsar's pergonal doctor was al6o i killcd.-Aus.-NX Cable Assn. j