RUSSIA

Evening Star, Issue 16988, 10 March 1919, Page 2

RUSSIA

BOLSHEVIK BOASTS. HELSINGFORS, March 7. Advices state that Petrograd was decorated and illuminated on the anniversary of the assassination of the ex-Tsar. Thirty thousand Red Guards paraded the Winter Palace at Zinovieff, and bombastically declared that the Red Army was destined to fight not only in Russia out in the streets of London, Paris, and Rome. It is stated that two Bolshevik propagandists have left Moscow. They were ordered to create a base in Spain, and then blow up the Eiffel Tower while the Peace Conference is sitting. A Petrograd message asserts that the Bolsheviks have spent £5,000,000 on stirring up trouble in Ireland. STOCKHOLM, March 7. The Yiddish paper, the ‘ Morning Post,’ reports terrible pogroms in East Galicia and Ukrainia. There were 400 fatalities at Groskurow.

THE CAMPAIGNS.

OUR ARCHANGEL FORCE RETREATS

BUT MURMAN FORCE ADVANCES

BOLSHEVIKS REINFORCE UKRAINE. LONDON, March 6. The Bolsheviks have captured a village on the Archangel front, and the British have withdrawn a mile. March 7. The Bolsheviks re-attacked on the Archangel trout on the afternoon of March 1. After a heavy bombardment of the Vaga sector they captured the village of Yevoseiwakaya, from'which the Allies, after a day-long and night-long resistance, _ withdrew alter inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy. An allied blockhouse and village were burnt out. In the fighting on tho Mur man front the Allies inflicted heavy casualties on tire enemv, three of their* leading generals being killed. The enemy are now withdrawing. • COPENHAGEN, March 7. The situation in Russia is as follows:In tho Northern Urals the Siberian troops are continuing a successful movement south-west of Kungur and south of Viotmka, on tho Perm railway, and are advancing on Sarapol, In the Southern Urals the Siberian troops have occupied Nikofekoe, which is 52 miles south of Birsk General Du toff’s Cossacks have out the Tashkcnd-Orenburg Railway. Tho Bolshevik forces in the above regions are estimated at 1,000 (? 10,000), and they arc well disciplined. A “ Rod ” force of '7,000 men, with artillery, is crossing the Bug, and is advancing towards Odessa. Tho Franco-Polish troops have ■completely occupied Bender, on the Tira-spol-Odessa railway, inflicting serious losses on the Bolsheviks. There has been heavy fighting on the shores of the Gulf of Riga, and it is reported that German troops have retaken Windau from tho Bolsheviks.

MORE HUN PLOTS.

Reuter’s Telegrams,

PARIS, March 6.

Tlie Czech authorities have discovered an anti-Ally espionage plot directed from the Conn an Consulate under cover of the Rod Crosk

GREECE’S EX-MONARCH. Reuter’s Telegrams. LONDON, March 8. The ‘ Daily Express’s ’ Geneva correspondent states that ex-King Constantine and ex-Qneen Sophia have incurred heavy debts in Switzerland, especially _ at the hotels. They are no longer receiving remittances from the ex-Kaiser, who is also “hard-up,” while Athens refuses them money. 'Lho ex-King and ex-Queen of Greece have begun to pawn their jewels. Most of their servants have been dismissed, and the couple are living in middle class style at a small hotel in the Engadine. A STRONG HINT. AS TO PEACE DATE. LONDON, March 9. It is stated 1 that the King has cabled to Dame Melba, asking her to sing at a gala Pehee performance at Oovent Garden in May.