ANTI-BOLSHEVIK COLLAPSE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17361, 7 January 1920, Page 7

ANTI-BOLSHEVIK COLLAPSE.

EFFACEMENT OF lENIKIN. NEW GOVERNMENT FORMED. RESULT OF DEFEATS. By Teleeraplt— Association— CopycisM. (Received 5.40 p.m.) Reuter. LONDON; Jan. 4. A . Bolshevik wireless message states that owing to the defeats suffered a new Government has been established at General Denikm's headquarters, with General Romanoffsky replacing General Denikin.

RETREAT IN DISORDER. ! CONFUSED FLIGHT, Times. LONDON, Jan. 5. Advices from Russia stß<fc© that 1 the Bolsheviks are completely in possession of the Doiietz coal basins. Tneir cavalry is iiO miles from i Taganrog, and General Denikin s I troops are fleeing panio-Btric- ' ken. They have evacuated Tsaritsyn, which was the principal bulwark of General Denikin's right wing. Tho Reds are at the gates of the Cossack capital, Novo Cherkassk. Denikin's overthrow is not confirmed, but the position of his armies is desperate, j The Allies are sending steamers to ! evacuate civilians from Odessa. i Dr. Harold Williams, in a delayed I telegram from Rostoff, gives a glimpse of the vast retreat in the

bitter winter over icy Russian steppes. A great immigration precedes the soldiers; traders, workmen, women and children are abandoning everything and. hurrying away in trains, carts and afoot. Peasants and Cossacks are moving southward in great caravans, with herds of cattle, horses and camels as though flying from the terror that walketh by day. ,/ Upon the issue depends the stability of Europe, for the Bolsheviks j are certain to turn elsewhere for • conquests., | A Times editorial says: "Surely , none can suppose triumphant Bolshevism will wallow contentedly until it dies from its own putridity. The more it. decays at the centro the ! more it will press outwards into China, Poland, Armenia, and ; India," Soviet troops have captured Krasnovodsk, on the east coast of the Caspian Sea, and are reported to be predominant at Baku. EFFECTIVE OPPOSITION.

MEED FOR CO-OPERATION. United Sorvice. LONDON, Jan. 5. Mr. J. L. Garvin, writing in the Observer, says that the effective hemming in of the Bolsheviks is possible only by the co-operation of Japan and India on one side and Germany on the other. He suggests that the Allies should secure Germany's assistance, offering modifications of the territorial and indemnity provisions of the peace treaty, which are untenable in any case. It was futile to deny that Lenin and Trotzky were thorough leaders, and had proved brilliant organisers and strategists, who had utterly out- ■ matched their opponents.