RUSSIA

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 27 August 1919, Page 8

RUSSIA

PLAGUE IN THE DON REGION. BUSSTAN PRISONERS SENT TO DENIKIN'S ARMY. BT CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT . (Received Aug. 27, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 26. A Bolshevik wireless messpge. claims "the reoccupation of Thitomif. .-., Plague has broken out in- the Don -Cossack territory. : _ < The newspaper Izvestia, published at Moscow, states that Germany, under Entente pressure, is sending 1000 Rus_ian prisoners to General Denikin's territory, where they cannot join tlie Red Army, thus op°ning unofficial hostilities against Soviet Russia.