BRIGHTER NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 29 August 1919, Page 5

BRIGHTER NEWS.

OENIKJN NEARINC KIEFF.

GREAT POSSIBILITIES IN THE NEAR FUTURE.

(Received Aug. 29 9.20 a.m ) T + • *^i A^g. 28. , , 1S seated that notwithstanding Bolshevist wireless reports General Demkm continues to make satisfactory progress. His forces advanced with great rapidity towards Kieff, and its fall is apparently only a matter of days. General Demkin's army fe ■ £S£ e tmv eV f G T eneral Petloura'e tio^W Tass 1 1*er- + ? the forces juncnSl, T r mld Catch the whole of *e Bolshevik forces in an enormous pocket 250iutes deep b, 150 miles widefsouth » General Denikin w a s forced to retire east and north-east of Kharkoff, owing to a strong Bolshevik counter-attack General Denikin's cavalry, by a bril,liant advance, entered Lambov. They captured 1300 men and forced the enemy to disperse 2000 untrained men. Lenin is reported to be opening r>eace negotiations: with Roumaia.