BOLSHEVISM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17944, 25 May 1920, Page 5

BOLSHEVISM

POLES* RAPID ADVANCE. ■ REDS CLAIM SUCCESSES. Press Association—By TelegTDph—Copyright. LONDON, May 22. Unauthoritative commentary on the Polish operations allows that, in order to attain the Dnieper line,.the Poles advanced on a front of 250 miles to a.n average depth of from 100 to 150 miles in 16 days. There is no confirmation of the reported capture of Odessa by the Ukrainians. A wireless Bolshevtst comruunitjno states: We aro energetically advancing in the Polotsk region, and have reached a line 10 miles south-westward of Polotsk. We occupied several villages further west, and forced tho Tehernitka River. There was stubborn fighting on the- right bank of tho Beresina River, and we occupied several villages. A particularly fierce engagement in the direction of Ihumen resulted in our favour. Elsewhere our advance is developing satisfactorily. BRITISH AND FRENCH REFUGEES. LONDON, May 22. Some 230 English and 120 French refugees have arrived at Southampton froi» Russia. Among them is the Rev. Frank North, chaplain in Moscow since 1911. He was put in caol twice, and his house was searched seven times. He was deprived of 195,000 roubles belonging to the church; also 13.000 roubles collected for the British poor in Moscow. There are iltill, 13 British subjects in prison in Moscow. Mr North's wife's jewellery was taken, but was redeemed before leaving, then taken again crossing the frontier, where all women are stripped naked while being searched.—A. and N.Z. Cable. ROMANOFF ROYAL FAMILY. LONDON, May 22. Affidavits filed in London by the late Czar's sister, wife of the Grand Duke Alexander, dispose of the stories that some members" of the Romanoff Royal Family escaped, and confirms the report that the Czar died'on July 16, 1918, at Ekaterinberg, and neither his wife nor any child survived._ Russian law provides that the interest in his estate vests in his two surviving sisters. Tho lirand Duchess was granted letters of administration of his English estate, valued at £500. —A. and N.Z: Cable.

CAMPAIGN IN SIBERIA. JAPANESE DEFEAT REDS. LONDON, May 21. It was authoritatively stated that the Reds attacked the Japanese east of Verchnoudinsk, and were defeated with the loss of 300 killed. The Japanese casualties were only two. The quality of the Siberian troops is of the poorest. They showed no inclination to fight. Other Red forces are assembling west and south of Nikolaievsk.—A. and N.Z. Cable. PEKING, May 21. The ex-Bolshevist leader Krasnachkoff, who styles Jiimself foreign Minister here, had notified the Allied High Commissioners in Siberia of the formation of a buffer State, called Verchnoudinsk, consisting of the territories eastward of Lake Baikal, including the isthmus of Kamschatka and .the island of Sakhalin. Krasnochkoff requests the evacuation from Siberia of all the Allied .forces, including the Japanese It is believed that the movement is inspired from Moscow, but it is not taken seriously.—A. and N.Z. Oable. • FIGHTING NEAB. KJ.EFF. •BOLSHEVISTS OCCUPY SUBURBS. NEW YORK, May 22. Berlin* reports that the Bolshevists, using shock troops and F/avy 'artillery, have occupied the suburbs of Kieff. Router. CAPTURE OF KIEFF CLALMED. POLES' SUCCESS SHORT-LIVED. LONDON, May 24. (Received May 24, at 10.10 p.m.) The Daily Elxpreas states that General !. Pilsudski's success was short-livecL It is reported that the Reds recaptured Kieff in the afternoon after six hours' "bombardi ment and heavy fighting. Poland threatens to make war on Czecho-Slovakia, sura there is a danger if war- commences that Hungary may intervene to crush Slovakia in order to establish a common frontier with Poland.— A. and N.Z. Cable. .FIGHTING IN PERSIA. BOLSHEVIST TREACHERY. PARIS, May 22. There has been a further Bolshevist landing in Persia, at Ghazin, in breach of the armistice. The soldiers were transported by small wax vessels-. Without warning the vessels snefled the town. The troops landed and seized the roads and communications. ' The Bolshevists marching from Enzeli and Ghazin threaten to encircle Resht (near Enzeli), to which a small British force was compelled to retire from Enzeli. —A. and N.Z. Caßle. WHERE BRITAIN FAILS. ' May 23. (Received May 24, at 10.26 p.m.) Lord Robert Cecil, in an article in the Standard, deplores the failure to utilise the League of Nations to prevent a renewal of war between Poland and Russia. He considers the talk about the jowerlessness of the league is fantastic, and declares that if the Government, with the power of the Empire behind it, were in earnest in carrying out the Covenant, Britain could lead the world.—A. and N.Z. Cable and Renter.