Retreat from Kieff.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 154, 15 June 1920, Page 5

Retreat from Kieff.

REQ CAVALRY COUP. SLAUGHTER AT JITOMIR. POLES JUSTIFY EVACUATION. [ By Cable.—Pram Awsociation.—Copyright. 1 (.Received 15, 12.31) p.tn.) London. June IL Polish source* confirm the Bolshevik recapture of KieffThe coup wai carried out by a Bolshevist cavalrv corps which penetrated Jitomtr. where they remained a fewhour*. burning the hospital and killing MX hundred Polish wounded, beside* doctors and nurses. _ The Poles maintain the ho.dmg of Kietf constituted a danger to the Polish troops. The military significance of the coup i* far le-s than the political.— (Renter! DESPERATE RED ATTACK SHATTERED ON DNIEPER. POLES LEAVING UKRAINE. (Received 15, 11.10 a.m.) Berlin, June 14. A Warsaw communique states: The enemy vainly tried to break our front in Polesia. A thousand Bolshevistcrossed the Dnieper and suffered heavily, a hundred surviving, of whom many were drowned attempting to return. The Polish withdrawal from Ukraine is continuing according to plan.—(Reuter). CRIMEAN OFFENSIVE. WRANGEL SCORES SUCCESSES. Paris, June 12. General Wrangel achieved his first objective in a new advance and captured Mehtipo*. five thousand prisoners, twenty-seven guns and five armoured train*. —(A. and N.Z.) brusiloff s revolt. NO CONFIRMATION OF STORY. Paris, .Jitne IX There is no confirmation in official circles in Paris of the reported counterrevolution in Russia under Brusuoff, Ur the murder of Trotsky and the nigh, of Lewin. —(A. and N.Z.)