FIGHTING BOLSHEVISM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17547, 12 February 1919, Page 5

FIGHTING BOLSHEVISM

THE PRINCES ISLAND CONFERENCE.

AMERICAN DELEGATES APPOINTED. LONDON, February 8. _Mr Fraser . (Australian Press Association representative) says: The English delegates to the Sea of Marmora Conference with the Russian Bolshevik delegates have not yet been named. America" has selected Mr William mite, Mr Ketsas U Republican Progressive), and Professor Herron (a Socialist). Mr Whit 8 represents an American newspaper syndicate in Pans, and is a typical western editor# Professor Herron was formerly a Nonconformist preacher in lowa, but 'has lived much in Switzerland, whence he kept President. Wilson well informed on German activities.

The Government of the Crimea has accepted the Allies' invitation to the Marmora Conference, but the Government of Georgia refused, while the Government* of Omsk and Archangel show a disinclrna--n G , It is possible that the Bolshevists may accept the mandatory principle placing the Baltic Sea area mto Britain's charge,—A. and N.Z Cable.

CONFERENCE FOREDOOMED TO FAILURE. IDEALISM BOWS TO THE PRAC TICAL.

_ _ PARIS, February 10. rhere is little hope of the success of the Sea of Marmora Conference scheme solving the Bolshevist problem. So far the anti-BoJshevist Governments refuse to go to the Marmora Conference, and only the Bolshevist leaders agree to it, while they agree apparently with a view to neootiatinsr with the delegates of the Allies But M. Pichon (French Foreign Minister) informed the journalists in Paris that if the Lolshevists imagine this is the view ol the Peace Conference they are mistaken, as the meeting has always been intended to be merely a conversation between the I divided Russian Powers, with a view to their submitting a basis of agreement to the Entente, and it can by no means be regarded as a conference betwene the Entente and Russia. The only the Bolshevists express go to it suggests th e complete failure of the project, and makes another scheme necessary,- the details of which are being anxiously awaited in many quarters.

The breakdown of the project must also be regarded as a blow to President Wil- ««• belief that' such questions may be settled by a compromise bared on idealism. Seemingly the Russian differences are too acute for compromise and too bitter for idealism. France is particularly interested in all this, seeing that she agreed very reluctantly to meet Bolshevhalfway at Marmora.—A. and NZ Cable. ' "

RUSSIAN PRISONERS IN GEBr MANY.

TERRIBLE PRIVATIONS. PARIS, February 9. Terrible .reports have reached the Council regarding 1,100,000 Russian prisoners in Germany. A hundred thousand of them need urgeut medical attention, dying in hundreds of starvation and cold. They aro receiving barely 50 per cent, of the food required to keep an unemployed man alive. The American Red Cross is sending Wo shiploads of food and clothes in tho meantime.—Times. CZECHOSLOVAK CONFERENCE. BOLSHEVISTS EJECTED FROM KIEFF. COPENHAGEN, -February 9. The Bolshevists have been driven out of Kieff. VIENNA, February 9. Representatives of all the Slav nations are attending a -congress at Kieff, and are attempting to settle Slav differences.—A.* and N.Z. Cable. UKRAINIANS ACCEPT INVITATION. HOSTHJTIES MUST CEASE. PARIS, February 9. (Received Feb. 11, at 5.5 p.m.) The Ukrainians have accepted the invitation to the conference at the Sea of Marmora, but announce that their delegates cannot be ready to attend by the 15th inst. Le Temps understands that the Entente Powers are insisting that hostilities must cease all over Russia, otherwise they will not confer with the Soviets.—Renter.

SUCCESSFUL ALT.HTTP RAID,

BOLSHEVIST ATTACK FRUSTRATED.

' LONDON, February 10. (Received Feb. 12, at 1.25 a.m.l A British North Russian communique says: Liverpool troops and a detachment of the French Foreign Legion, consisting oE Russians, 'trained and officered by French, carried out a successful raid southward of Kadish. They inflicted heavy casualties, destroyed two field guns, and upset the enemy's preparations for attack.—A. and iSLZ. Cable.