IMPROVEMENT IN RUSSIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17131, 9 April 1919, Page 11

IMPROVEMENT IN RUSSIA.

ALLIED POSITION SOUNDER

AGREEMENT WITH FINNS,

DANGER OF RISING AVERTED. (Received 8.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z.-Reuter. LONDON. April 7. A British official report from the Murmansk area, dated April 5, announces an improvement in the state of affairs at Kandalaksha. The announcement that reinforcements wore on the way, coupled with other military preparations, overawed the leaders of the Finns, Karolians, and Bolsheviks, who had been planning a rising on ' a large scale. The leaders in tlje Finnish region signed an agreement to comply in future with the wishes of' the general officer commanding. The War Office states that according to later information from Murmansk the immediate danger of a Finnish and Karelian rising has been averted.

RELIEF FORCE ON THE WAY. BOLSHEVIK ARMY OF 1,000,000. A. and N.Z. LONDON. April 7. A force for the relief of the British army in Northern Russia was despatched from London on Wednesday last. The Bolsheviks were defeated in Northern Lithuania and are retiring along the whole front. It is stated that Lenin's army now numbers more than a million men, ' fighting on a front extending for 4500 miles. The Bolsheviks lost 700 dead in the recent fighting. The opinion is growing that it is of the greatest importance that the Allies should decide on a definite policy for dealing with Bolshevism and prevent its spread. Petrograd could readily be captured, but the problem of feeding the city afterwards is most difficult. The time of the year is becoming suitable for naval and military operations, The Stockholm correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that refugees from Petrograd report that the discipline of the Bolshevik soldiers is deteriorating. Many are deserting from the front. Hatred of the populace against the present regime is growing.

EVOLVING A POLICY.

AMERICAN SUGGESTION. A. and N.Z. PARIS. April 7. The American delegation has evolved a definite Russian policy to be submitted to the Peace Conference. BARRIERS FOR EUROPE.

ROUMANIA AND GALICIA. A: kni >.Z. . NEW YORK, April 1. The Btrnc correspondent of the United Press interviewed Prince Windischgraetz, adviser to the former Austrian Emperor and later Foreign Minister, said that Roumania and Galicia were a dam stemming the Bolshevik flood from overflowing Europe. They would be unable to hold out unless the Allies rushed aid.