SECOND EDITION MENACE OF BOLSHEVISM.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1719, 9 January 1920, Page 6

SECOND EDITION MENACE OF BOLSHEVISM.

SWEEPING OVER SOUTH RUSSIA

By Electric Tolegraph.—Copyright. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association Received January 9, 12.45 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 8. It is authoritatively stated that the Bolshevist negotiations with Lithuania have broken down. A resumption is improbable.' General Deniken's military situation is going from bad to worse. The "Bolshevik claims of large captures of men and material leave little hope that General Deniken will succeed in keeping back the overwhelming Reds. North of the Caspian Sea the Reds have taken Guriet, the base of-the Ural Cossacks, and are converging on Sergiopol. General Duto'v is threatened everywhere. and.it is doubtful,if General Dntov will be able to withdraw except into Chinese Mongolia. The Reds are pushing back Admiral Koltchak's main body, which has practically ceased to count as a military factor. A Red column in the far north of Siberia has occupied Berezov, 400 miles north of. Totholsk. The Bolsheviks, who have entered the hitherto neutral Bokhara have thereby seen red direct railway communication between Trans.-CaSpia and European Russia via Tashkent and Sainarai, which will facilitate the concentration of troops in Turkestan prosecuting their far-reaching designs. The Bolsheviks are striving to bribe Bokhara and Afghanistan to accept their paper currency for large territorial concessions. The Bokharans do not appear to have assented, while the friction' between the Bolsheviks and Afghans is increasing. The .Bolshevik designs after the shortly expected fall of Krasnovodsk evidently include the control of tho Caspian, the occu-pation-of Baku, penetration into Persia from South Caspian, and a rear attack on the volunteer army. Also, a doubtless aim is the direct penetration of c Persia via Khorassan and ulteriorly a large aniiBritish move towards India, in conjunction with Afghanistan and others affected by the' Pan-Islamic movement.

■ Swarms of agenfs are receiving intensive training as propagandists, and'some have already boon sent to Persia and the Caucasus with largo supplies of forged English money.