RUSSIA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17533, 27 January 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA

SUCCESS OF ESTHONIANS.

LONDON, January 23. (Received Jan, 26, at 5.5 p.m.) The successful advance of Lho Esthonians towards Petrograd is an important defeat of the Bolshevists, duo partly to trouble in Petrograd and partly to a disaster at Perm. The British have handed to the Esthonians captured torpedo boats, which aro being used against the Bolshevist flank. IN EASTERN PARTS. IGNORANCE OF THE PEOPLE. BELIEVE WAR STILL IN PROGRESS. LONDON, January 23. (Received Jan. 26, at 5.5 p.m.) Troops have been sent to Caucasia to keep open the communications with the Indian troops in Trancaspia. There is a large number of German and Austrian prisoners in Trancaspia who still do not believe that the Central Powers have been defeated and who say that German submarines in the Caspian recently drowned 30,000 British troops. The Turks also remain truculent and do not appear to realise the defeat. They continue their.old oppressions, exterminating tho Armenians.—A. and N.Z. Cable. BOLSHEVISTS' PLIGHT. HEAVY DEFEAT AT PERM. STOCKHOLM, January 23. (Received Jan. 26, at 5.30 p.m.) Trotsky's statement in reference to the desertion of the whole Bolshevist army refers to 60,000 men on the Narva front, who had gone over to the Esthonians. The evacuation of Petrograd was necessitated by a heavy Bolshevist defeat at Perm.—A. and N.Z. Cable. LONDON, January 23. (Received Jan. 26, at 5.30 p.m.) The Morning Post's Stockholm correspondent states that, according to Helsingf ors telegrams, Trotsky has telegraphed to • the War Minister as follows :—" Bolshevists are compelled to evacuate Petrograd without fight, chiefly owing to their last defeat on the northern front, when the whole army, with its general, deserted." STRIKE IN iPETROGRAD. RED GUARDS IN RETREAT. LONDON, January 23. (Received. Jan. 26, at 5.30 p.m.) Sixty thousand workmen in Petrograd have been on strike since the 16th. All supplies have been removed from the city. Trotsky has removed his headquarters to Novgorod. The Red Guards, who invaded Karelia and Suojervi, were beaten off, and are now in full Tetreat, suffering from a shortage of food.—A. and N.Z. Cable.