RUSSIA.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IX, Issue 82, 21 March 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

MILITARY OPERATIONS. Odessa, March 19. The Bolsheviks are reported to have defeated the non-Bolsheviks. The latter retired towards the city. East of Odessa the Greeks have defeated the Bolsheviks in the Kherson neighbourhood. London, March 19. A British North Russia official communique states that a Bolshevik attack on Norzhegorskaia, 130 miles southward of Archangel, was repulsed. The enemy left forty-seven dead and many wounded. We also captured six machineguns. (Received 21, 10.20 a.m.) London, March 20. . The Letts have captured Mitau. The Bolsheviks are retiring on the whole front.—(A. and N.Z.) EVACUATION OF ODESSA. (Received 21, 9.20 a.m.) London, March 20. Wireless reports from Russia saj the Reds defeated General Deniken's and General Petlora’s troops, who made great efforts to cover the complete evacuation of Odessa. -M. Miliukoff, in a letter to the newspapers, says the evacuation is a catastrophe, and brings Bolshevism much closer to the centres of, international communication. — (A. and N.Z.) BOLSHEVIKS CAPTURE UKRAINE. (Received 21, 11.15 a.m.) . London, March 20. The Bolsheviks have captured the greater portion of the Ukraine.—(A and N.Z.) POLES’ EFFORT TO CHECK BOLSHEVISM. (Received 21, 9.2 V a.m.) Copenhagen, March 19. The Polish Parliament decided, amidst enthusiasm, to mobilise five' classes of troops to cheek Bolshev-l ism. The Poles drove out the Bolshevists from Pinsk.— (A. and N.Z.) EASTERN SIBERIA. ANTI-AMERICAN FEELING. (Received 21, 10.30 a.m.) Washington, March 20. Anti-American feeling in Eastern Siberia is pronounced because Arne, ricans upheld the Russians against the Bolsheviks. The State Department attributes the ill feeling to the activities of the Javanese agents.— (A. and N.Z.)