SUCCESSFUL UKRAINIAN NEGOTIONS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 2 September 1919, Page 5

SUCCESSFUL UKRAINIAN NEGOTIONS.

LETTS AND LITHUANIANS DEFEAT BOLSHEVISTS

■■' (Received Sept. 2/9.15 a.m.) ■; . LONDON, Sept. I/ A Bolshevik: wireless message reports that negotiations with Generals Denikin and Petloura resulted in an agreement under which, the Ukraine will temporarily abandon its. political independence, but will preserve its position as a State. The AH-Russian Constituent Assembly will ieettle i^e^Sbal form of GrOTernmeat. :

Lettish and? Lithuanian troops expelled the Bolshevists from Npvo Alexandrovsk and surrounding area, capturing many guns and prisoners, , Advices from Mitau state that owing to the loss of Pskoff the British Mission and the Esthonian Supreme Command have agreed! to a joint occupation of the front.