NORTHERN RUSSIA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 121, 23 May 1919, Page 5

NORTHERN RUSSIA

BRITISH ADVANCE.

{Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn. & Reuter

(Rec. May. 23a 8.55 a.m.) . LONDON, May 21

The War Office reports: —Our • troops in conjunction with the i-iver flotilla advanced on the left bank of the Di vina to south of Tulgas, prisonering twentyone. It is believed they sank a Russian on Moat,

Russian cavalry distinguished themselves in this operation. A strong patrol of Russians in the nineteenth broke through the enemy’s outpost lino at Vara, killing twenty and taking prisoner seventy-one. were sew’-a! determined patrol encounters at Murmansk on the nineteenth near the railway northward of' Lake Onega. Ovr troops drove back patrols and loaned {'irony's main defence line. The Bolsheviks in consequence of the recent d Lacs removed the commander and appointed. prcmnirbK a more ab l e successor

GREAT BATTLE FOR KTEFF.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association

/(Rec. May 23, J.W a.m.) GENE' I 'A, May 21

A great battle is proceeding for Kieff between the Bolsheviks and Ukrainians. Trotsky personally leads the Bolsheviks, who have been largely reinforced. Lenin was also present.