SOVIET RUSSIA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1710, 29 December 1919, Page 5

SOVIET RUSSIA.

BOLSHEVIKS ATTACK NARVA.

FIFTY-SIX REGIMENTS ENGAGED.

By j Electric Telegraph.—Copjrigkt. Zealtmd Cable .A«auciafcion mu ■ COPENHAGENj Dec. 26. Ihere are reports of unusual Bolshevik activity over the entire front, with furious attacks at, various points. It is reported from Reval that the Bolsheviks are receiving reinforcements from Narvata rskoff Fifty-six Bolshevik regiments' attacked Narva with little result, 20 per cent, of their shells failing to explode. Riga reports that, strong Bolshevik forces opened an offensive on the Lipno river. AIJ ihe attacks were heavily repulsed.

BOLSHEVIK ADVANCE IN SIBERIA I Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. : ' . , • PARIS, Dec. 26. | A -Moscow wireless claims that the 801, , Sboyiks captured Tomsk and seven smaller I towns. J lie Bolsheviks advanced from lAovcmko and Lui.-vik to the main bioenan railway, capturing enormous booty and many prisoners. Some enemy detachments which were unable to retire further, surrendered with their staffs. The message adds that Koltchak's army in the Tomsk region has ended its existence. The road lo Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk lias now been opened.

Deniken reports that British aviators are participating in constant raids on the enemy's rear, causing panic. IRKUTSK, Dec. 20 (Delayed). Tomsk has been evacuated.

WITHDRAWING TROOPS FROM SIBERIA. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association, Received December 29 9.20 a.m. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. Mr Shide Mara conferred with Mr Lansing, and it is semiofficially stated thifftlie United States intends to withdraw 9000 troops stationed in Siberia. PAID IN GOLD. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association, STOCKHOLM, Dec. 26. Bolshevik commissaries and higher officials of the Soviet. Government are receiving their salaries in gold owing to the shortage. Theatres and cinemas in Petrograd havo been closed. The Govsrnment has arrested the parents of all officers who havo gone to Domken,

JAPANESE TROOPS MAY BE WITHDRAWN.

Australian-New Znnland CaMp ARnociafcion. NEW YORK, Dec. 24. A Washington message states that Japanese troops who are guarding the Siberian railways have been subjected to so many Bolshevik raids that they will be compelled to withdraw unless they tare reinforced. Ambassador Shide Hara has been conferring -with (Senator Lansing concerning the situation. According to the • State Department, Japan and the Unit- ' ed States have concluded no agreement. " The Japanese are making overtures to the United States with a view to preventing a Bolshevik advance.

RUSSIAN WORKERS ARRIVE.

ENGLISH LABOUR LEADERS INTERVIEWED.

Austrnlian-NAw Zealand Oab'p \ wociation. Received Decem'.> r 29. 9.10 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 27. A deputation of Russian workmen from the Ural region has arrived in Ensrland and interviewed the Labour leaders. The deputation declare the Bolsheviks have destroyed the workmen's co-operative societies, converted shops into communal stores, destroyed manufactories and given the people famine and Woodshed instead of peace. A wireless message from Moscow says the Bolsheviks have captured Tomsk, leaving the road to Krasnovnrslc a.nd Irkutsk open. The message adds that: Koltchak's aimy ceases to exist in this repiort. .