REPORTED EXECUTION OF ADMIRAL KOLTCHAK.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXX, Issue LXXX, 14 February 1920, Page 5

REPORTED EXECUTION OF ADMIRAL KOLTCHAK.

SITUATION IN NORTH RUSSIA. W CABLE -Pa<333 ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHI - ■ LONDON, Feb. 12. advices from Copenhagen state that Koltchak was executed by his own troops. The Soviet authorities wirelessed from Moscow, interceding for his life, but the .appeal arrived too late. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. General Eeppell has recaptured Irkutsk, where no trace of General Koltchak was ftauinsl. LONDON, Feb. 13. In North Russia, the Reds concentrated strong forces on the Dvina sector, and the situation is causing anxiety. In South ißuasia' volunteer resistance on the western ssector collapsed. The Bolshevists are pushing towards *he Dniester on a' 120-mile front northward from the Black Sea. The Bolshevists are advancing towards the Stavropol and Petrovsk railway so rapidly as to seriously threaten nofc only Denikin'<s> right, but his communications ;wit'h'the Caspians. A British detachment at Batoum is withdrawing to Constantinople.