RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1919, Page 3

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

(Bv Electric Telegraph— Copyright.) (AUSTRALIAN & ».*. MU ASSOCIATION] PETROGRAD’S POSITION. (Received This Day at noon.) LONDON, July 6. \ Helsingfors correspondent states diplomats at Paris alone prevent the capture of Petrograd. The reason is obscure, but unless taken w months it will be too late to avoi another terrible winter of starvation.

an armistice. if' ■ Reuter’s Telegram.) (Received r H'is Dnv nt noon.) (COPENHAGEN, July 4 - As a result of Allied mediation, an armistice between Estonians and Ger- - . ma n troops was signed at Riga, 0,1 the 30th. It provides that Impena German troops evacuate Lettland quickly, and b(*h Imperial and Baltic Lantlwehr leave Riga by the sth.

(Received this day at 12.25 p.m) LONDON, July 4. Hr Wilson, a correspondent who traversed General Kolchak’s front, and joined Deniken’s armies, telegraphs tlias this civil war is terrible. It is typhus stricken, and is replete witn wounds and death. Yet unlike other wars there are no trenches and no front line. The opposing forces hold villages, whence they throw out pickets, periodically attempting to capture other vil- -■ lages, which may be miles away. lne -V! White forces show sterling spirit, file V ' population of Urals district, demanded mobilisation in order to protect their families from Bolshevik reprisals. What they need are shirts to give them a chance of escaping typhus, which m filling the hospitals quicker than wounds.