LATEST REPORTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 30 May 1919, Page 7

LATEST REPORTS.

V-THE EIGHT FOR PETROGRAD.

BOLSHEVISTS BUSHING UP ' REINFORCEMENTS.

t PIERCE FIGHTING EXPECTED.

• JReeeiyed May 30, 12.55 p.m.) t LONDON,"May 17 (delayed). The Australian press learns that the B«itehevisi insurgents in the Upper Don . number 25,000. They are suffering from a shortage of ammnuition. mcdi- | cal stores, and alack of officers! They j „■ hope-, to join General Deniken. They ' are already/outof the Bolshevik lines. On the northern front the Bolshevists defeated * the Trans-Caucasian troops and are advancing on the Merv. The situation there, is serious, and the ripening crops are falling into the Bolshevists' hands. On the other Russian fronts the Bolshevists are retreating. The in- ~ discu^ine of the troops compelled the reinfcroduction of a stringent military Tegime. The Bolshevists are rushing reinforcements to Gatchina to protect .£, s Petrograd against the Northern Rus- - ' «ians -and Esthonians. Fierce fighting "'• f» anticipated.