THE BOLSHEVIK WAR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1710, 10 January 1920, Page 5

THE BOLSHEVIK WAR.

PEACE OFFER DENIED.

By Electric Telegraph,—Copyright. Australian-.Now Zealand Cable Association. ■' LONDON, Jan. 7. • The report that Colonel 1 allant is bringing a Bolshevik peace offer is officially denied at Berlin. , •’ . The Ukrainian Legation states that Deiuken is retreating towards Odessa, Much railway material, mostly of English origin, is falling into the hands of the Ukrainians. THE JAPANESE TROOPS. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association LONDON, Jan. 7. • The Australian Press Association is officially informed that Japanese troops were sent to Irkutsk not as a fighting force, but merely to protect the Japanese residents. RETURNING REASON. vustralisn-New Zealand Cable Association. REVAL, Jan. 7. Newspapers assert that Lenin, Trotsky and Tchitcherhi are prepared to discontinue the present terrorism, and to abolish the revolutionary tribunals. LETTISH ADVANCE COTNTINUES. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association COPENHAGEN, Jan. 7. The Lettish and Polish forces are con tinning to advance They have re-estab-lished railway communication between Riga, Dvinsk and Warsaw. BRITISHER KILLED BY BOLSHEVIKS. / Australian-New Zealand Cable Association COPENHAGEN. Jan. 7. Bolshevik newspapers state that Arthur McPherson, the well known member of .the British colony at Petrograd, has been killed by Bolsheviks. BOLSHEVIK CRUELTIES. MANY CHRISTIANS CRUCIFIED. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association Received January 10, 11.45 a.m. LONDON. Jan. 8.

A Bolshevik wireless message states: We captured 4000 prisoners in the Don district, also 220 guns and four tanks, and made similar captures of prisoners and booty elsewhere, including 20 six-inch guns, 9/ locomotives, and 1800 wagons with shells and dynamite near Tomsk. , , Joseph Inigo Jones, who was living at Kharkoff until General Deniken rescued him, supplies a horrible narrative of Bolshevik .outrages in the town. Ho says that the Jewish commissaries forced the prisoners’ arms into boiling water and then pulled the skin off like taking off a glove. Many Christians were crucified.