REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA.

Otago Witness, Issue 3443, 9 March 1920, Page 15

REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA.

,o_ (By Cable.) ARCHANGEL REVOLUTION ENDED. CHRISTIANIA, February 29. The Norwegian Consul-general at Archangel reports that, the revolution there passed quietly, and order now prevails. SOVIETS' HtON DISCIPLINE. LONDON, February 27. A telegram from Helsingfors states that Soviet Russia has introduced most stringent iron discipline, which has been inaugurated into the factories. Meal time consists of 20 minutes, and for trivial offences the punishment is most rigorous. SOVIET AND BALTIC PROVINCES. COPENHAGEN, February 28. The Foreign Ministers of Poland, Lithu ania, Latavia, Esthonia, Finland, and Rumania will meet shortly at Warsaw to discuss peace with the Soviet. LITHUANIAN BOLSHEVISTS. WARSAW, February 29. Not receiving arrears Of pay, several Lithuanian (Baltic province) companies at Kovno formed Bolshevist Soldier Councils and bombarded the Government buildings. Regiments elsewhere became simultaneously disaffected, and outbreaks are threatened in various parts of Lithuania. DENIKIN'S PREDICAMENT. LONDON, March 4. It is semi-officially confirmed that General Denikin's position is serious. The Bolshevists have cut the Rostov-Petovsk line at Tikhoretskaya, -and threaten to cut General Denikin's army in half, throwing back the northern half towards the Sea of Azov and the southern half to the Caucasus. General Kuropatkin, head of the Bolshevist Administration in Turkestan, is endeavouring to abolish abuses. The famous General Drusiloff is conducting operations against the Ferghana insurgents. [Ferghana is in Turkestan.] KOLCHAK AND THE DANES. COPENHAGEN, February 29. Out of 32 Danes serving in the North Russian army who were left at Archangel, five were killed after the Bolshevists entered the town, and the fate of the remainder is unknown. Three hundred other Danes at Archangel fled. The newspapers demand the arrest of Captain Palludan, General Kolchak's representative at Copenhagen,, for enlisting the above 32 Danes under false pretences, and subsequently during the voyage compelling them, under- threats of court-mar-tial, to serve in the north. He is accused of infringing the anti-recruiting law. It is reported that Palludan is now at Christiania (Norway), and is about to seek refuge in England. SITUATION IN SOUTH RUSSIA. LONDON, March 5. The War Office reports that the.situation in South Russia records that the Bolshevists have been driven back in three areas. The latest information indicates that the reported oc6upation of Tikoretskaya is incorrect. Denikin still holds an important lateral railway. WASHINGTON, March 6. According to Bolshevist wireless reports the Reds have taken prisoner or killed the entire First Kuban Cor pa on the Caucasus front. Denikin's army is now encircled . LONDON, March 2. The early fall of Bolshevik Sebastopol is expected. RUSHING TO BANKRUPTCY. WARSAW, March 1. Extraordinary figures are leaking out at Moscow, disclosing Bolshevist financial and economical stress. The Soviet's income in 1919 was approximately 48,000,000 roubles, and the expenditure 159,000,000 roubles. The income during the last two years was 62,000,000 roubles, and the expenditure 704,000,000. The wages of the industrial workers have increased 43.59 per cent, since 1913, and the cost of living in some areas has increased tenfold. A Polish engineer, who was recently in Moscow, discussing trading prospects, describes the condition of transport as hopeless. Sixty per cent, of the railway employees died in 1918, and 10,000 others succumbed to typhus during the year ended October, 1919. DANGER OF BOLSHEVIST PROPAGANDA. LONDON, February 26. The Morning Post's Paris correspondent says that General Neishel, interviewed, declared that Bolshevism as a military danger to Europe was all nonsense, as a small, properly equipped army would be able easily to overcome the Red forces. The real danger was the Bolshevist propaganda, because it was supported by the full strength of unrepentant Germany, who was working hand-in-glove with Moscow. Behind M. Lenin were Herr Noske and the German General Staff, who had been preparing a new scourge of militarism for the world. The significance of this warning, says the Post, is unquestionable, because General Neishel, while head of the Allied Military Mission in Germany and the Baltic Provinces, has seen Bolshevism behind the scenes. INTRIGUES IN GERMAN Y. AMSTERDAM, FebV-aiy 29. The police at Munich have arrested 50 participants in the International Communist Conference, including several Russian couriers. These latter had landed in Upper Silesia from an aeroplane. A number of intercepted letters showed Radek to be the head of a secret courier

service between Soviet Russia and Ger* many. Large espionage centres have been! discovered at Hamburg and Essen. Many Russian Bolshevist agents have been arrested at the Berlin hotels. They, declare that 600,000 Red soldiers are preparing for an offensive in the spring, intending to secure the revocation of the Versailles Treaty, and to liberate the Gex» man people. --• ITALIAN SOCIALISTS. ROME, February 29. The Socialist Party is sending iDeputy Dombacci to Copenhagen, to negotiate with Lenin's envoys. ■ AMERICA AND THE -SOVIETS. WASHINGTON, February 28. Early American recognition of Soviet Russia by resolution of tne Senate is for»< casted. . - . JAPAN AND~SIKERIA. WASHINGTON, March <,.' It is understood that the Japanese policy contemplates the establishment of a semiautonomous State in Siberia with a view, to its acting as a buffer against Bolshevism. • "' HONOLULU, March 6. • According to a despatch from Tokio, Japan has decided to abandon the Siberian expedition. The first. contingent of Japanese troops will leave Vladivostock on March 20.