BOLSHEVIKS CLAIM SUCCESSES AGAINST UKRAINE.
.CAPTURE OF MANY TOWNS IN THE SOUTH REPORTED. SIBERIA NOW INVOLVED IN THE CIVIL STRIFE. Times. (Received 7.30 p.m.) PETROGRAD, Jan. 30. The Bolsheviks claim further successes against the Ukraine. The Red Guards disarmed 20 Cossack eachelons at Alexandrovik and occupied Kertch, Sebastopol, Jalta, and numerous stations and villages round Kieff, Portava, and Kursk. General Kaledin's Tartar troops continue their resistance at Simferopol, Bachtosh, and Isaray. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. ' WASHI.NGTC-N, Jan. .30, The correspondent of the Chicago Daily News at Harbin'says' , that a preliminary session of the Constituent 'Assembly; was held at Tomsk to discuss Siberia's autonomy. It resulted in., a, pitched .battle - between the Bolsheviks and the other elements, 20 being killed. • Eastern Siberia is menaced by German and Austrian prisoners, of whom 15,000 are in the Amur province alone. Prisoners at Tomsk, Orsk, and Irkutsk enjoy their liberty, and may assist in the uprising against the Bolsheviks. PETROGRAD, Jan. 30. Lenin continually glories in the idea of civil war, saying: "The real terror is yet to come. We are unabashed by the cries of those who weep or shudder in the presence of a great struggle. We are the first Government in the world that openly declares the carrying On of civil war." .",..,. ,'..,- .„, '",} .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16763, 1 February 1918, Page 5
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