RUSSIAN POLICY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17294, 18 October 1919, Page 11

RUSSIAN POLICY.

FREEING BALTIC AREA. PROGRESS OF OPERATIONS. BOLSHEVIKS IN RETREAT. DENIKIN'S SUCCESSES. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. (Received 9.25 p.m.) Rcuter. LONDON, Oct. 15. All the newspapers are demanding an authoritative explanatory statei ment of the policy regarding Russia, : especially in connection with the Allies' precise relations with the | various white Russian armies and the I Baltic States, also the relations of ! these armies and States with each J oihcr. One question asked is, what I will happen when Bolshevism finally i collapses, and will the influence be- • hind the new Russian Government ;or Governments be German or | Allied] I It is authoritatively stated that } General Bermondt is impudently j and unfoundedly asserting that he j represents the so-called Russian I Government, whereas he is a mere I adventurer who received, and proI bably is st'll receiving, support from ' von Der Goltz's German army. Other I parties concerned are the German I Government, evaded the Allies' demands to withdraw its troops from the Baltic States, and I the North-west Russian Government. j The Russian elements in General j Bermondt's army were originally re- | cruited from this source. The Rus- ' sian north-west army, from which > General Bermondt was dismissed, is now entirely out of sympathy with I his present action. The Allies' policy has always been to prevent the Baltic States being overrun by Bolsheviks or Germans, j and, with that aim, to get von Der Cxoltz and his Germans out of the country. The present position roughly is that the Germans and Russians have overrun Latvia as far as a line from the mouth of the Dvina to Mitau and Shalvi, and have failed decisively to defeat the Lettish army. As General Bermondt is now disowned by everybody and outlawed by General Yudenitch, who is Admiral Koltchak's representative, the Lettish Government hopes, with the assistance of Esthonia and Lithuania and the goodwill of the Allies, to recover all lost ground and to eradicate the German menace forever. A telegram from Omsk states that the Bolsheviks in their retreat are taking away all the population between the ages of sixteen and fifty, together with cattle. The latest authoritative news from South Russia shows that General Denikin's extreme left has taken Chernigov and is advancing northward along the East Dnieper toward Gowel. His right centre crossed the Don on a front of 200 miles, from Voroney to 80 miles north-west of Tsaritsin, driving back the Bolsheviks everywhere, north-east and j northward.