VIVID PICTURE OF RUSSIA

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1716, 6 January 1920, Page 6

VIVID PICTURE OF RUSSIA

REDS AT GATE OF COSSACK CAPITAL. Received January 6, 1.50 p.m. LONDON. Jan. 5.

Advices from" Russia state that the Reds are completely in possession of the Donetz coal basin. Their .cavalry is 20 miles from Tauanrog. General. Denikon’s troops are fleeing panic-stricken, and have evacuated Tsaritsyn, whiqh was the principal bulwark of General Doniken’s right wing. The Reds are.at the gates of the Cossack capital, Novocherkassk. The. .story of General Denikon’s overthrow is not confirmed, hut tho-.position of his armies is desperate. The Allies are sending steamers .to evacuate civilians from Odessa.

Mr Harold Williams, in a delayed telegram from Rostoff, gives a glimpse of the vgst retreat in bitter winter oyer the icy Russian steppes. Great migration precedes the soldiers. Traders, 'workmen, women and children are abandoning everything, hurrying away in trains, carts and afoot. Peasants and Cossacks are moving southward in groat caravans with herds of cattle, horses and camels as though flying from a terror that walkoth by day. Upon the issue depends the stability of Europe, for tin' Bolsheviks are certain to turn elsewhere for conquests. [ A.-Times editorial says; Surely none can suppose triumphant Bolshevism will wallow contentedly until it dies from its own putridity, The move'it decays at the centre the more it will press ,outwards into China, Poland. Armenia and India. , TEHERAN, Jan. 3.

Soviet troops have captured Krasnovodsk on, the east coast of the Caspian Sea and are reported tp.be predominant, at Baku.