ANTI-BOLSHEVIST OFFENSIVE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 102, 1 May 1919, Page 5

ANTI-BOLSHEVIST OFFENSIVE

SEVERAL TOWNS CAPTURED.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

LONDON, April 29.

Official despatches from Warsaw report that the .offensive opened, with good; result# Vxina and the towns of Lida, Novogrodek, and Baronovichi, to the southward, were captured, with 2000 prisoners.

SURRENDER OF A BOLSHEVIST

ARMY

| (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association)

juONDON* April .20.

j A Ukrainian official report _ states that a Bolshevist army operating in the region of Gomel, consisting mainly of pietasante, surrendered' with 20,000 tifles, 200 machine gunp, and ■< 3S hem gtinig. Many of the prisoners offered to. join j the iit fighting against the Bolsheviks in the district. •

NFW GOVERNMENT At tIBAU

(Reuter’s Telegrams)

LONDON, April 28

Advices from Libau state that a new State Government has been formed. It is composed of six Letts and four Germans. The Reverend Neddra is Premier! Jews and; workmen are not represented In the Government.

PLANS FOR REVOLUTION IN

SWITZERLAND.

{Rec. May 1, 8.50 a.m.) | LONDON, April 22. I Swiss authorities discovered at Mosj cow the Bolshevist Government’s com--1 plete instructions for . a,- in Switzerland, to be attempted :h October. These included the proclamation of -martial law at Benie and Zurich ; %rrcst of Ministers, Judges, officials and hostile editors, also their wives and children as hostages, in the event of resistance the hostages to be shot publicly* ... >