DENIKEN LINE TESTED.
A TERRIFIC STRUGGLE
DRIVEN FROM ISTHMUSES.
(Received 8.0 a.m.) LONDON Feb. 7. A War Office communique states: "In the neighbourhood of the Tsariti-sin-Irinodar railway the Bolsheviks obtained a footing on the south bank of the Manich river. Six attempts to cross elsewhere were repulsed. Between the 28th and 31st January Deriikin's troops on this front captured nine guns, 260 machine guns, and four thousand prisoners. "The Bolsheviks occupied the isthmuses of Perekop and Chongar, leading to the Crimea, after heavy fighting, but were repulsed before the defiles losing six hundred prisoners. The' Bolsheviks continue to advance in Odessa."—A. and N.Z. and R.
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Northern Advocate, 9 February 1920, Page 5
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