DEFEATS IN SOUTH RUSSIA

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 33, 9 February 1920, Page 7

DEFEATS IN SOUTH RUSSIA

CAPTURES BY DENIKIN BATTLE IN THE CAUCASUS. (HNITEB PRESJ ASSOCIATION.—COPYRiaHT.) CAUS. AND N.Z. CABLE ASSN. AND REUTER.) LONDON, 7th February. A War Office communique states:—ln the neighbourhood of the Tsaritsin-Eka-tirinodar railway the Bolsheviks obtained a. footingl on the south bank of the Manitsh. Six attempts to cross elsewhere were repulsed. Between 28th. and 31st January Denikin's troops on .this front captured nine guns, 260 machineguns, and 4000 prisoners. The Bolshevik." occupied the Isthmuses of Perekop and Chongar, leading to the Crimea, after heavy fighting, but were repulsed before the defiles, losing 600 prisoners. The Bolsheviks co.ntmue to advance in the Odessa a;ea. LONDON, 6th February. ' The British Military' 'Mission to South Russia reports that the Bolsheviks were completely defeated in attempts to force the line of the Don and Manitsh Rivers. A Red cavalry corps crossed near the river mouth, but were driven back with heavy loss. During their retreat the ice on the river broke. Many Reds were drowned, and a large number of guns and Wagons .were lost. The remnants of the force fled northwards.

In the Caucasus the volunteer armies of Bolsheviks were heavily defeated. The total capture' hitherto counted in these operations ■amount to 8000 prisoners, 171 Suns, and 340 machine-guns.