RUSSIAN DEVELOPMENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17595, 7 October 1920, Page 7

RUSSIAN DEVELOPMENTS.

ARMISTICE WITH POLAND. EXPECTED THIS week, NEGOTIATIONS IN london. SUSPENSION REPORTED^ By Telegraph—Press Association— (Received 7.30 pjn.) A. and N.Z. RIGA. Oct : . 6. It is expected that a RuEiso-Polish armistice will be signed on October, 8. • Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 8.30 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 5. The Evening Standard states that the British trad© negotations with Russia have been indefinitely suspended until- a satisfactory reply is received to a strong Note just addressed to the Soviet Government regarding British prisoners and Bolshevik propaganda in which & time limit is fixed for a reply. .WRANGEI/S ONWARD MARCH FORMIDABLE OFFENSIVE. ANXIETY IN MOSCOW. Router. . LONDON. Oct. 5. General Wrangel's operations in South Russia are again attracting prominence. The situation is apparently developing rapidly. An important move of the line from Ekaterinoslav to Bostoff appears imminent. A force headed by General Maklino, the famous "Ukrainian guerilla leader, has already advanced to Losovaja, Slaviansk and Kramagofskaja, .in the Donetz Basin, and has reached Kremenchug, on the Dnieper. The movement prepares the way for an important advance by General WrangcJ, as the capture of Losovaja and Slaviansk cuts the Bolshevik main communications from their main base, in the area from Kharkoff' to Restoff, while Ekafcerinoslav is menaced from the rear. General Wrangel announces that 11,000 prisoners have 'geen counted in the Voluohal'ka area. He has reached a point 19 railes west of Mariupol, on the Sea of Azov, taking, 600 prisoners. '' Meanwhile Trotsky's latest trumpet call reveals the greatest anxiety regarding the' southern front, and declares it must be improved before winter. GRAIN FROM SOUTH RUSSIA. SHIPMENT REACHES FRANCE. 'A. and N.Z. PARTS. Oct. 5. A shipment of 5000 tons of barley has arrived at Marseilles from Sevastopol, j General Wrangol is sending seven other shipments. SOVIET REVILES FRANCE. ... APPEAL TO THE MASSES. - Australian and N.Z. . Cable Association. (Reod. 9.5 pjn.) ..LONDON. Qct/5The ' Soviet Commissary for Foreign Affairs, Tchitcherin, has addressed ' a violent Note to France. The French Government, which three years ago, he says, attempted to drown the Russian revolution in floods of blood, now recognises the criminal tsarist General Wrangel. Many French troops are in Constantinople waiting for the moment to advance against Russia and TJkrania. The Russian Government appeals "to the brotherly masses in France to put an end to the aggressive action of their Government. FIGHTING IN LITHUANIA. \ _____ BOY SCOUTS IN ACTION. A. and N.Z. COPENHAGEN, Oct. 5. Reports ; from Kovno. state that renewed fighting has occurred between the Poles and Lithuanians. The Poles occupied the railway station at Orany after fierce resistance. Great losses were sustained on both sides, I United Service. ' LONDON. Oct. 5. Polish hoy scouts took a prominent part in the fighting in the battle of Grodno. They were accompanied by girl scouts who do Red Cross work. One company of 140 of the ages of 15 to 19 lost half its strength in killed and wounded. BRITISH COMMUNISTS. INSTRUCTIONS FROM LENIN. A. and N.Z. LONDON.. Oct. 5. The Evening Standard publishes a document brought from Lenin by Sylvia Pankhurst, giving the conditions on which revolutionary groups formed in Britain would be admitted to the Third International. Lenin urges Communists systematically to remove moderate leaders from all responsible positions in Labour organisations, and to replace them by Communists, and to carry on systematc propaganda in the army and among rural workers, which is the most vital condition of membership of the Third International. The Communist party must possess iron discipline, even a. military one. A few obscure Communist groups in London, Glasgow, Birmingham, Liverpool, and Sheffield have accepted Lenin's con ditions.