RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1920, Page 3

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

il.v !*:;»•. trie Telegraph— C' SOVIET AND LETTS. (Received 111 is day at 10.10 a.in.) MOSCOW, March 29. Government have received a wireless from the Lettonian Government agreeing to the proposed peace negotiations with the Soviet. DANISH POLITICS. (Keceived this day at 10 15 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, March 29. , There is enormous political excitement over the King dismissing the Cabinet. The step is unprecedented. POLISH REPORT. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, March 29. A Polish wireless states: We continue to resist the Bolshevik offensive with marked success. The enemy were repulsed everywhere with heavy sanguinary losses, many prisoners and much booty were taken.

f BOLSHEVIK REPORT. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.' LONDON, March 29. Bolsheviks state: Between 18th February and 26th March the Reds in South Russia took prisoner 112,000, 330 guns, 200,000 rifles, immense quantities of benzine and naptha. POLES AND BOLSHEVIKS. (Reieived This Dnv at 32.25 p.m.) BERLIN, March 27. -It is predicted that the Bolsheviks will formidably attack the Poles within three weeks having assembled an army of half a million.

RUSSIAN GRAND DUKE. (Received This Day at 1.5. p.m.l NEW YORK, March 27. The “Chicago News” correspondent in Italy, had an interview with Grand Duke Nicholas, who said Russia had. saved the Allies, but she must nowwork out her own salvation unaided and unassisted. The problem for the world is to stop the red terror.at the frontiers of Russia. Ido not think the instigation of a Romanoff counter revolution in Russia is possible.