ANTI-BOLSHEVIKS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 18 July 1924, Page 5

ANTI-BOLSHEVIKS

WELL ORGANISED GROUPS

OPERATING IN VARIOUS PARTS

(By Eleotrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Published in The Times.)

LONDON, July 17.

The Times Riga correspondent says a. message from a trustworthy Petrograd source confirms recent reports that new and well organised anti-Bolshevik groups had been active in various parts of North-Western Russia towards the end of June. They began operations simultaneously in Vitebsk, Tver, Pskoff, Petorgrad, and Novgorod provinces, and last week raided the towns of Kholm, VeJezli, Ostashkov, and Rzlieff, where they occupied Soviet buildings, hanged Communists, freed prisoners, and then retired to the forest. Their objects are to make the position of Communists outside the big centres difficult without considerable military support, and to convince the Soviet masses that the Moscow Government is impotent against, determined organized action. They thereby hope to gain recruits for further action on a larger scale..