BOLSHEVISM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18051, 27 September 1920, Page 5

BOLSHEVISM

GENERAL PETLOURA'S SUCCESS; REDS' RESISTANCE BROKEN. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. VIENNA, September 23. General Petloura has broken the resistance of the Bolshevists and has thrown them back to the east side of the River Sbrusz, or Sbrutch. The Ukrainian advance guards are now approaching Kamenetz and Podolsk (Eastern Galicia).—A. anfl N.Z. Cable. THREAT AT INDIA. CAPTURE OF BOKHARA. DELHI, September 24. Details are now available of the capture of Bokhara city by tho Bolshevists. They show that the Emir of Bokhara had wisely concentrated his troops, whose resistance completely surprised the Bolshevists. The battle for the city swayed to and fro, both sides losing heavily, tho position being won and lost again and again. The Red command was compelled to draw on all his reserves before tho city was captured, and the Emir was forced to fly to the Afghan frontier with, the remnants of his army. After its capture Bokhara was given over to the troops to loot, the wealth of the bazaars falling to the Red soldiery. Tho Bolshevists aro now expected in Northern Persia and Afghanistan. Reuter. THE RIGA CONFERENCE. AMICABLE NEGOTIATIONS. BUSSIA ABANDONS SEVERAL CLAIMS. „ RIGA, September 24. (Received Sept. 26, at 5.5 p.m.) The Russian delegation causea a surprise by announcing that the Moscow Government was prepared to abandon a number of claims, including the reduction of the Polish army, the surrender of war material, and the cessation of war industries. The negotiations after that took a more amicable turn. Committees were appointed to arrange details of an armistice. BASIS OF DISCUSSION. POLISH PROPOSALS ACCEPTABLE. WARSAW, September 26. (Received Sept. 26, at 11.55 p.m.) The Soviet's representatives at Riga did not object to the Polish proposals for the basis,of a discussion including a mutual guarantee of the inviolability- of the fronthe non-interference with each other s domestic affairs, and the renunciation of claims for war expenses damage.— A. and N.Z. Cable. POLES AND LITHUANIANS. AMERICAN" INFLUENCE SOUGHT. NEW YORK, September 24. The New York Times reports that the Lithuanians' representative in Washington is appealing to the State Department to use the United States' influence to prevent further unnecessary bloodshed between the Poles and the Lithuanians. The representative charged the Poles with having resumed _ hostilities -without justification, and having advanced in force across the Allied demarcation line north of Grodno. The Polish Legation in Washington has received a cablegram from Warsaw stating that the Lithuanians obstinately Tefused to withdraw, their troops from the Polish territories in the Suwalki region, despite the decision of the League of Nations.—A. and N.Z. Cable. BRITISH BOLSHEVISTS. " STRAGGLERS RETURNING HOME. LONDON, September 26. (Received Sept. 27, at 0.45 a.m.) Lloyd's Sunday News says that one by one, like bedraggled pigeons struggling back to their cotes, the British Bolshevists are returning from Russia. Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, disguised as a man, was smuggled as a etowaway to Bergen, and thence to Moscow. Her interview with M. Lenin and General Trotsky will probably materialise in a subsidy of several thousands to assist in the continuance of her work. Other Bolshevists have returned, some coming third class, others as' deportees from Norway, and some as stowaways. They include Mr Tanner, the editor of Solidarity, -whose mission was presumably the same as Miss Pankhurst's Mr Clarke, the editor of the Worker, Mr Gallacher, printer of the Worker/ Mr Maclaine, editor of the Communist, and doubtless of the queue lining up before Kremhne for subsidies those promising most fared best.—A. and N.Z. Cable

M. EAMENEFF'S SUCCESSOR. LONDON, September 26. (Received Sept. 27, ,at 0.45 a.m.) _ M. Riazanof, M. Kameneff's successor in the Russian negotiations, has arrived in and N..Z Cable.