RUSSIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18141, 5 July 1919, Page 7

RUSSIA.

THE INVADING POLES'. .\' PETLOURA ALLIED WITH BOLSHEVIKS: By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright,. ? Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, July 3y ' ; The Australian Press Association learns that,' owing to General Petloura, making, a comnact with the Bolsheviks, against the Poles, and collecting 10,000 ;• troops at Froskuroff, the Peace Conference allowed General nailer's! army; to occupy Galicia pending the people's self-deternt'nation. \\*"'' i General Denikin is now twenty milea ; beyond Kharkoff, and controls -the f ," mainland communication with the Crimea, which the Bolsheviks are evacuating. It is likely that Kolchak's southern army will soon effect a junction ? with Dcnikin's; -.,. The situation in Russia generally is' unchanged. There is such an amount of unrest that the Red Army leaders consider it dangerous to arm the newly mobilised men, and are sending thein : . ,■ to the front without rifles. Weapons are issued after their arrival. • £ RECAPTURE OF ODESSA. (Received July 4, 11;35 p.m ; ); - v LONDON, July '.;zT ? A Berlin telegram states that th« Ukrainian hetman Grigorieff. reports * that he captured Odessa after a san« guinary battle, the Bolsheviks fleeing . in disorder. ' * FIGHTING ROUND BIGA. | Beuter's Telegrams. (Received July-4, 11.-35 p.m.) COPENHAGEN; June 30. The Lettish Press Bureau states that the German Baltic Landwehr was three time 9 defeated by the Esthonian and Lettish troops last week and practically . destroyed. The Lettish troops reached Jagel, nine miles from Riga. The Ger- i mans are evacuating Riga, where the Needra Ministry has-been :dissolved- | The War Minister was arrested and ; Needra fled to Liba'u, where he was arrested, but escaped, and is now taking refuge with the Imperial German troops encamped six miles from Libau.