RUSSIA'S PROBLEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17502, 19 December 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA'S PROBLEMS

j FIGHTING IN URAL REGION. BOLSHEVIST FORCES DEFEATED. PEKING, December 17. The Vladivostock contingents of Bolshevists were severely defeated at Ekaterinburg, and three brigades of the Ural Soviets were cut up.—A. and N.Z. Cable. IN ESTHONIA. BOLSHEVIST FORCES BOMBARDED. LONDON, December -17. Esthonian communique: A British naval squadron in the Gulf of Finland bombarded the Bolshevists, both rear and front sections. The enemy's advance on the Asserin front has been brought to a standstill. The mobilisation of the Esthonian army is progressing successfully.—rA. and N.Z. and Renter. THE DANISH LEGATION. Gloomy .account of petrogr.ad. STOCKHOLM, December 17. Members of the Danish Legation, who have arrived from Petrograd, state that the situation there is rapidly becoming worse. The Bolshevists intend'to evacuate Petrograd, owing to the action of the Allies, and are increasing the Red army from one million to three million men. A. and N.Z. and Reuter. ANTI-BOLSHEVIST MISSION. ARRIVAL IN RUMANIA. PARIS, December 17. Constantinople advises that the Russian Anti-Bolshevist Mission headed by M. Miluikoff has arrived from Jassy.—A. and N.Z. a,nd Reuter. SURRENDER OF U BOATS. GERMAN OFFICERS INDIGNANT. BRITISH SCORN HURTS. AMSTERDAM, December 17. (Received Doc. 18, at 8 p.m.) The first German "newspaper accounts of the surrender of the submarines complain bitterly of the humiliation of the officers and the men's impotent rage against the i British, and the cold, polite, scornful attitude of the British officers. One narrator dwells on the " superfluous wounding of our feelings. We were not permitted to flv the German flag. Thero is no place more God-forsaken than Scapa Flow."— . Times.