AGGRESSIVE SOVIET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17650, 10 December 1920, Page 7

AGGRESSIVE SOVIET.

DESIGNS AGAINST POLAND.

RED ARMIES MASSING.

BALTIC STATES INVOLVED.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Times. LONDON. Dec. S.

It is persistently rumoured in Eastern Europe that the Bolsheviks are concentrating forces for a new attack on Poland. Five armies have been brought to the frontier on the Dvina front between -Polotsk and Vitebsk, and on the Dnieper front between Smolensk and Mohiloff. Concentrations are also proceeding at Vilna.

It is apprehended that the first objective will be the invasion of the Baltic States.

JAPANESE VIGILANCE.

PRECAUTIONS IN SIBERIA.

Reuter

TOKIO, Dec. S.

The Nichi Nichi Shimbun states that the Thirteenth Japanese Division is at Nikolaievsk, in Eastern Siberia, under orders to prepare for eventualities. Major-General Shiraff, chief of field communications, has issued a general warning addressed to the Russians against attempts to interfere with the communication system.

REVOLTS IN KOREA.

MERCILESS REPRISALS.

VILLAGES DESTROYED.

Australian and N.Z. Cabl® Association.

(Reed. 1.30 a.m.)

TOKIO. Deo. 8.

It 's officially reported that armed bands of Korean malcontents were broken up in skirmishes near Shang-Teo. The Japanese captured three machine-guns and 500 rifles. Reprisals were carried out against a village, the inhabitants of which had guided Japanese troops into an ambush. Seventy houses were burned, and a number of villagers shot. In another town 130 houses and several churches and schools were destroyed, and 90 persons executed.

ARMS FOR KOREANS.

SUPPLIES FROM BOLSHEVIKS. (Received 7.30 p.m.) Renter. TOKIO. Dec. 7. The Japanese War Office has announced the seizure of documents purporting to show that Koreans in the Chin Tao district purchased a large amount of supplies from Bolsheviks, including 50 machineguns and 3000 tifles. A considerable number of these arms have already been captured from the Koreans.