A DEAL FOR AID

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 72, 18 December 1919, Page 9

A DEAL FOR AID

BETWEEN KOLCUAK AND JAPAN PROPOSED CESSION OF TERRITORY (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright

New York, December 10. The. Chicago "Tribune's" e< respondent in Paris inlcrvieKod.Mr. Frederick Corse, former chairman of the Russian-Amcri-, can Chamber of Commerce, who said:— "I learn on the highest authority ■ that Kolchak lias informed the United States that unless the Allies extend aid to the non-Bolshevik forces, he may be compelled to cede portion of Siberia to Japan in order to save it from tiicßolslieviki."— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE WAR 0N _ THE~ BOLSHEVIKI BRITISH COMMUNIQUE. London, December 15. A War Office communique states that the cavalry pf the Caucasus army carried oat a raid north of Tsaritsiu, taking 2-tOO prisoners. 'Din fiolsheviki leler captured Kharkov, Poltava, and Bcrdechev. It is reported that Petlura has escaped to Po-laud.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LENIN'S TERMsITtHE ESTONIANS A LARGE ORDER. Copenhagen, December 15. Lenin's terms to the Ksthonians claim a strategic frontier, which will deprivo the Esthonians of a food part of their territory. Lenin nlso demands that the Esthonians should be responsible- for (ho larger nart of (lie Russian debt.—Aus.X.7.. Cable.Assn. BRITISH TROOpTIN PERSIA ANNIHILATED A BOLSIIEYIT REPORT. London) I'ecember 1(1. A Bolshevik wireless report states that 1.100 British troops vere wiped out in Persia—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ,■ exchangeTftrisoners PROPOSALS UNSATISFACTORY TO BRITAIN. London, December 15. It is understood that the British Government considers Litvinoff's proposals for the exchange of prisoners altogether unreasonable, as' they exclude the exchange of officers and demand the release of certain Russians who are outside British inrisdiction and the surrender of many "more Russians than British. The negotiations, however, . are proceeding.— Renter.