ALLIED ADVANCE ON DWINA RIVER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 September 1918, Page 5

ALLIED ADVANCE ON DWINA RIVER.

HOSTILITY TO BOLSHEVIKI.

OPPONENTS FROM ALL CLASSES.

LONDON, Sept. 26.. It is announced that General Poole has- considerably advanced up the Dwina river, and cleared both sides for fifty miles south of Berenitskaia, severely defeatling the Bolsheviki and sinking irour ships. ■•■•'" ""■.'■'■ The situation" of the Czechia on the Volga front continues' seoriousr A considerable enemy force is operating in the direction of Krasniufimsk which the Czechs hold. The Bolsheviki are constantly reinforced by Germans. Th© new Bolshevik army is ultimately to consist of half a million, whom Germany is actively engaged in instructing. The majority <tf the Bolshevik forces are comparatively worthless. Two-thirds of the peasantry, about ! half of the workmen, and the mhole of the bourgeoisie are intensely hostile to Bolshevik rule. Many workers on the Volga tried to join the Czechs, but the Bolsheviki prevented them.—Aue.N.Z. Cable Assn. '

NEW YORK, Sept. 26. The New York Times'. Washington correspondent states that the Russian Embassy has received official despatches from Ufa that a provisional Russian Government has been formed. That Government has repudiated" the Brest Litovsk treaty, and will fight Germany and the Bolsheviki.—Aue.-N.Z. Cable Aaen.