WAR IN RUSSIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10537, 13 March 1920, Page 8

WAR IN RUSSIA

“ BEDS'” ADVANCE DENIKEN’S ARMY FORCED TO WITHDRAW. Imperial News Service. (Received March 12, 7.30 p.m.) ■ LONDON, March 11. • Denikcn drove back tho Bolsheviks, who.w.cr.o attempting,to break his centre, but ho w.as,pompelle(l„to withdraw his .loft -wing eighty ..miles,.,, south o! Rostov,-■ ttlo Bolsheviks advanced.-to,. .wijluh twenty miles of the, all-important ilo-tov-Gotrov railway. . ", FINNISH Jf RON TIE R ■ WHITE RUSSIXS*“TROOPS ADVAN CINQ. Australian ami M.A Laois Association. COPENHAGEN, March 7. Reports from Helsingfors State tha GetferaP Skobeltslh, ’’ commanding the Wliito Russian troops-in Murmansk, is approaching the; Finnishfrontier with ' a 'largo '’force ’after— cutting through tho Bolshevik linos.

VLADIVOSTOK ADMINISTRATION. ..... Router’s Telegram., (Received -March 12, 0.0 P-tu-) . ■ ’ ■Vladivostok, March 7. The "efiairmah of tho Siberian lutionary Committee has telegraphed from irkutsk that the Soviet Administration recognises the \ hidivcstok A ministration, and authorises it to act in an all-Russian capacity. TRADING WITH SOVIETS. AMERICAN PROPOSAL. WASHINGTON, March 10. It is understood that, tho State Department will probably propose to the Supreme Council the withdrawal of the war-time restrictions upon trading between the Allies ,aild Soviet Russia. American exporters will be allowed to trade with .the Soviet Government on the understanding that they will do eo at their own risk, and that the State will .not help them an the event of complications. This be stipulated Because the. United States docs not desire to have any dealings with Soviet Governments. JAPAN’S~miTUDB. HONOLULU, March 9. According to a dispatch from Tokio, the Japanese Foreign Office has intimated an early resumption of commercial relations with the Soviet, Prp.llminary to a formal recognition or it as tho‘do faetto . Government of Russia. T^'LESWmT^MMTSSION. ’ x i*„Ka*U *•-*« 9 Imperial Nows Service. (Received March -12, 7.30, p.m.) - LONDON, -Mru-ch 11. The'meeting of the Council of the League of Nations to be held in Pans on March 12th, will appoint a Commission of. Inquiry which , will proceed to Russia early in April. lb is noteworthy that twelve ol thirteen nations which did not sign invited to join , the LeaguE, definitely accepted. .