BOLSHEVISM.

Evening Star, Issue 16998, 21 March 1919, Page 6

BOLSHEVISM.

ITS MARCH WESTWARD, REDS CAPTURE ODESSA. Prtss Association—By Telegraph— Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON; March 20. (Received Mtoch 21, at 9.20 a.m.) Wireless roporta state that the Russian Red Army defeated General Doniken's and Genor.il Petloura's troops, who made great efforts to cover tho complete evacuation of Odeaaa. Dr Miliukoff. an ej-Rnssian Minister, in a letter to the newspapers, says that the evacuation of Odessa is a catastrophe which brings Bolshevism much closer to the centres of international communication, (Received March 21, at 11.15 a m.) The Bolsheviks have captured the greater portion of the Ukraine. POLES ON THE ALERT. COPENHAGEN, March 19. The Polish Parliament decided, amidst enthvsiasm, to mobilise five classes of tioops to check Bolshevism. , ! The Poles drove out the Bolsheviks from ! Pinsk (the chief town of the Pripet Marsh country, 112 miles east of Brest-Litovsk). LETTS' BALTIC PROVINCE WIN. LONDON, March 20. (Received March 21, at 9.50 a.m.) The Letts have captured Mitau, and the Bolsheviks are retiring on the whole front. [Mitau, 28 miles south-west of Riga, is an important railway centre in Courland.] EASTERN SIBERIA. JAPS. USE BOLSHEVIKS AS LEVER AGAINST AMERICANS. WASHINGTON, March 20. Anti-American feeling in Eastern Siberia is pronounced because the Americans upheld the Russians against the Bolsheviks. Tho United States State Department attributes the feeling to the activities of Japanese agents. BERLIN BATTLEFIELD. COST OF GOVERNMENT'S WIN. REVULSION OF FEELING. LONDON, March 15. (Received March 21, at 8.55 a.m.) The ' Daily Telegraph's' Rotterdam correspondent states: Although Noske has proved victorious in the pitched battles, there is still much desultory rifle fire in Berlin at night time, and occasional shells from the Spartaeist artillery. Six hundred dead are lying in the morgue and the hospitals, but besides these many of the Spartaeist victims have been buried secretly. There is a strong revulsion of feeling against the ruthlessness of the Government troops and the summary executions, especially in Lichtcnborg, where scores of innocent men (? women), and children were killed. Berliner? believe that the extremists are gaining strength throughout the country, ftnd will engineer another outbreak. It is significant that the trade unions and cooperative societies are dismissing their Majority Socialist officials and installing Independent Socialists. The Government are passing a Bill forbidding trafiio in Russian money ajid securities, hoping thus to prevent the Spartacists from obtaining Russian financial support.