SOVIET RUSSIA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1703, 17 December 1919, Page 7

SOVIET RUSSIA.

FURTHER BOLSHEVIK SUCCESSES. By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright. Vustralian-New Zealand Cable Association. LONDON, Dec. 13. It is reported that Bolsheviks have capii rod Poltava, Authentic information rom South Russia shows that tho Bolshoiks have occupied Biolgorod, and are now vithin fifty miles of Kharkov. It is fcar,d that Kieff is almost surrounded. Ihe lituation causes anxiety, owing to the in, ibility of Koltchak and Yudcmtch to c.\rcisc pressure, thus permitting the Reds to .weep down upon Denikon. fighting on nar,va front. Vustralian-New Zealand Cable Association. LONDON. Dec. 14. Esthonian and Bolshevik communiques ro,ort severe fighting on the Narva front, he Esthonians claiming that heavy attacks vote beaten off, tho Bolsheviks merely re* •ording fighting The Esthonians say that ao Bolsheviks' attacked in close formation md were mowed down in front of barued vire enlaglcments. Many uninjured Bob. •heviks lay hat to escape the fire of their ,ivn machine guns, which were placed behind'to force them to fight. ■*- — - - BRITISH WAR PRISONERS. Vustralian-New Zealand Cable Association, COPENHAGEN, Doc. 11. An agreement has been reached in the conference between Captain O Grady amt Litvinoff, under which the Soviet Government will jiennit the despatch of warm Nothing food, drugs and money to British nrisoners in return for permission to load a diip with drugs for its own use. Arrangements also have been made to exchange ’ettors at stated intervals, enabling British md Russian prisoners to communicate with 'heir homes. Meanwhile, the prospect ot an agreement on the whole exchange ana icpatriution question is not improving.