THE BOLSHEVIK PERIL

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 3929, 9 February 1920, Page 3

THE BOLSHEVIK PERIL

COMPLETE DEFEAT IN SOUTH RUSSIA.

HOLOCAVSI" ON THE ICE

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Tho British Military Mission to South lUissia reports that the Bolsheviks were completely defeated in attempts to force the line of tho bon and. Manitch Rivers. Ked cavalry corvw a'osscd tho river near il-s mouth, but were driven back with lieavy losses. During the retreat the ice on the river broke. Many Ilods were drowned and a large number of gvins and waggons lost. The remnants of tho force fled northwards.

In tho Caucasus volunteer armies oi Bolshevists wero heavily defeated. The total captures hitherto counted on those ouerations amount to SOUO prisonei's, 127 ftutw, and 840 machineRuns.

fcsOVIET DOWNFALL PREDICTED

New York., .February t>. Alaior La-ssies, v member ol the

luench Government, who is on route- • • iioai Vladivostook to i< ranee, predict* . the overthrow of the Russian Soviet. Government "within a few mouths ifi- • jspito its recent military and diplomatic achievements. Siberia, lie says, is not controlled by tJio Soviets but by thoir opponents. *YUDENITOH SELLS OUT. London. February 5. General Yudoniteh handed over £227,000 and a quarter of a million Finnish murks to the lkjuidsitors oi the North-west Army, upon which lie was permitted to leave Esthonia. VLADIVOSTOK 1C GONE RED. London, Feb. 5. it is semi.oJliciully stated that the iiolsheviks are still i>o miles from Odessm. Hie North l.'ninca volunteers apparently maintain their hold upon tliu Isthmuses of I'erokop and Chon&ar, which are easily defended. 'I'lie Cossacks have taken large numbers of XM'isouci'K and four guns in the lighting on Manitos, __ The social revolutionaries at lr- """"'"* kutsk were overthrown by the Bolsheviks without a conflict, and were replaced by a Soviet Committee.

Practically alh the coastal area around Vladivostock has gone "red," and it is only a question of time boJo re the movement spreads to the whole of the Amur and I'suri districts.