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