RUSSIA
POLES LEAVING UKRAINE,
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. .Australian and N.Z. Gable Association.
PARIS, June' 14. There is no confirmation in official circles of Paris of the reported counter-revolution in Russia under General Brusiloff, or of the murder of Trotsky and the flight of Lenin. A Moscow wireless message accuses the Poles of blowing up the Vladimir Cathedral, railway stations, and electric powerhouses, and also the water supply. BERLIN, June 14. A Warsaw communique states: The enemy vainly tried to break our front in Polesia. _ A thousand Bolsheviks crossed the Dnieper and suffered heavily, only 100 surviving, of whom many were drowned in attempting to return. The Polish -withdrawal from the Ukraine continues, according to plan. Polish sources confirm the Bolshevik recapture of Kieff. The coup was carried out »y a Bolshevik cavalry corns, which, penetrated to Jitomir, where it "remained a few,hours, burning the hospital and killing '6OO Polish wounded, besides doctors and nurses. The Poles maintain that the holding of Kieff constituted a danger to the Polish troops. The military significance of the coup is far less than the political.
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Evening Star, Issue 17379, 15 June 1920, Page 4
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