RUSSIA

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 27 August 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA

BRITISH BOMBARD ODESSA

BOLSHEVIST COUNTER-ATTACK ON NORTH-WEST.

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION-COPYEIGHT LONDON, Aug. 26. A Bolshevik wireless message states that thirty British warshio s bombarded Odessa for two days, and then a landing was effected and the town was occupied. HELSINGFORS, Aug. 26. It is improbable that the Finns will participate in the Petrograd offensive. The EkSthonians decline to assist unless the Allies recognise their independence.. . The Bolsheviks have begun a counteroffensive in the Pskoff region, and also claim to have developed their success at Kamishin and captured villages and river craft. # LONDON, Aug. 26. A Bolshevik wireless message states that Koltchak is evacuating Omsk and preparing an entrenched position opposite the town. Insurgents are besieging Vladivostok, which is full of refugees. A Japanese squadron has arrived off the port .

GENERAL DENIKIN'S RAPID PROGRESS.

(Received Aug. 27, 9.5 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Aug."26. Reports from South Russia state that General Denikin's.advance is progressing with great rapidity. BOLSHEVISTS ADMIT LOSS OF ODESSA, r

(Received Aug. 27 9 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 26. The Bolshevists,, admit the Allied capture of Odessa.' ;