RUSSIA.

Evening Star, Issue 17037, 7 May 1919, Page 3

RUSSIA.

FINNS WEARING PETROGRAD. PARIS, May 5. Finnish troops and General Judenich's Russian volunteers are within 22 miles of Petrograd. LONDON, May 6. The Russian Bolshevik Government have proclaimed a state of siege in Petrograd, replying for defence mainly on the Finnish "Red Guards." The Bolsheviks appealed to the proletariat to assist in repelling General Mannerheim's Finnish " White Guards." The principal motive of General Mannerheim's advance is to : forte a favorable solution of the Finnish question, hoping to compel the Bolsheviks to concede his demands before the Bolshevik debacle complicates the problem. A Russian official message states that a Bolshevik commissary named Gregoriff was murdered in Petrograd. ARCHANGEL CAMPAIGN. LONDON, May 5. General Ironside reports that the Bolihevik bombardment of the Vaga River front lasted for several hours. The dugDuts withstood the shelling and protected the infantry well. The enemy assembled under cover of the woods, but were speedily dispersed when they advanced in the open. One partv of Bolsheviks attempted to get round the British flank, but the Russian infantry counter-attacked and defeated the enemy. General Ironside pays a tribute to the Canadian artillery and also the Russian artillerymen manning the British 60pounders, these being the deciding factors in the battle. May 6. A Helsingfors telegram to the ' Daily Express ' savs that Bolshevik spies learned details of tne defences of Shenkursk, on the Vaga River, 275 miles south-eastward of Archangel, and organised a detachment of axemen, who attacked the American guard during the night, beheaded 60 out of 80 pickets, and gained an entrance to the fort. [Shenkursk, on the Vaga, a tributary of the Northern Dwina, at the mouth of which latter Archangel stands, is about 30 miles east o! the Archangel-Vologda Railway.]