SOVIET RUSSIA.
STATE OF WAR IN SMOLENSK.
Stockholm, Jan. 18. Advices from Russia report that Smolensk is in a state of war.
All troops at Vitebsk and Smolenskhave been sent south-west.
The military have requisitioned all trains, and fortifications are being constructed in the Dvina district.
Reconnoitring detachments of Red troops have advanced towards Braslav, which is occupied by Poles.—(A. and N.Z.)
Smolensk is a government of Western Central Russia, Vitebsk being an adjoining government? The respective capitals are cities of the same names. The city of Smolensk is an important strategic point, and one of the oldest cities in Russia.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 32, 20 January 1923, Page 5
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