NEW RUSSIAN EFFORT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17339, 10 December 1919, Page 9

NEW RUSSIAN EFFORT.

UNITED FRONT FORMED. ] ■ ~~ FROM BALTIC TO CASPIAN. NEWS FROM NORTH RUSSIA. By Telegraph— Association —Copyright. I Router. LONDON. Dec. 4. 1 Semi-official messages from the North Russian front state that the a Bolsheviks were compelled to aban- t don their position in Onega Valley f and retire towards the Dvina. They have also relaxed their pressure in 1 South Russia. e The situation of the Russo-Ger- I man forces under Lettish pursuit is •* i critical. It is considered that the ! German evacuation of the Baltic J ! States cannot longer be postponed, s ! Volunteers in the Ukraine have f I joined up with the Polish advance ( ! guards, thus forming a united anti- i Bolshevik front from the Caspian 1 to the Baltic, and also rendering f possible the co-operation of the i Poles and General Denikin's volunteer army. A treaty has been signed under which the Galician army comes under General Denikin. The Galician Government has removed to Odessa. > _ < COPENHAGEN CONFERENCE. i ■ i BOLSHEVIK URGES PEACE. A. and N.Z. COPENHAGEN. Dec. 8. ; M. Litvinoff, the Bolshevik delegate to the Copenhagen conference on the interchange of prisoners between Soviet Russia and Britain, ; has issued a statement to the effect that while hopeful of good results from the repatriation negotiations, ; he felt bound to say that no satisfactory solution was possible until military operations on Russian territory and the isolation of Soviet • Russia were removed. The re-entry of Russia into economic intercourse with the world was j of equal importance to herself and the Allies. The longer the war lasted the longer France must wait for payment of interest —there was even a possibility that it would not be paid at all. ALLIES' RUSSIAN POLICY. ! FORTHCOMING CONFERENCE. Reuter. LONDON. Dec 4. Speaking with regard to the forth- . coming international conference to consider the settlement and future of Russia Mr. Lloyd George said it would be composed of representatives of the same allied and associated Powers as hitherto, acting together- It would not include representatives of Soviet Russia. • He hoped the Treaty of Versailles would be ratified before the end of the month.