RUSSIA.

Evening Star, Issue 17032, 1 May 1919, Page 3

RUSSIA.

BOLSHEVIKS DEFEATED l\i CENTRE AND SOUTH. LONDON, April 29. Official despatches from Warsaw report that the anti-Bolshevik offensive has opened with good results. Yiiua, with the ’.owns of Lida, Novogrodsk and Baranovichi, to the southward, have been captured, with 2,000 prisoners. A Ukrainian official message reports that the Bolshevik army operating in the region of Gomel consisting mainly of peasants, surrendered, with 20,000 rifles, 200 machine guns, and 35 field guns. Many of the prisoners offered to join the Ukrainians in fighting against the Boliheviks in the Zitomir district. BALTIC PROVINCES. Reuter’s Telegrams. LONDON, April 29. Advices from Libau state that a new Government has been formed composed of six Letts and four Germans. The Rev. Mr Needrae is Premier. Jews and workmen are not represented in the Government. RELIEF OF FAMINE. CENTRAL EUROPE’S .MAW. Reuter*l Telegrams. LONDON, April 29, The Food Controller states that, exclud.ng Germany and Bulgaria, nearly 12,000 tons of foodstuffs daily have been delivered in Europe daring March in order to avert starvation; also that thousands of tons of food have been delivered in Germany since the relief arrangements were completed. During April 100,000 tons will have been ■ sent to Germany. Plans are being formulated to feed over a million children in the liberated areas of Central Eastern Europe. Furthermore, Britain is largely helping to feed France, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Switzerland, and Portugal. RIOTS IN VIENNA. < VIENNA, April 29. ! Unemployed demonstrations outside the ' Parliament Buildings led to an encounter with the police and several deaths. A number of the police sided with the ■ demonstrators, who set fire to the Parlia- ; ment Buildings, tut tb* flames were ex- j tinguiahed, and mounted police are now patrolling the streets &id maintaining ' order. '