BLOWS TO BOLSHEVISTS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14841, 19 February 1919, Page 3

BLOWS TO BOLSHEVISTS.

TRANSPORT CUT OFF AND MANY PRISONERS TAKEN. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 16. The advance of Denoim's army along the Stavropol-Baku railway seems to have paralysed all opposition.. He is expected momentarily to reach Petroush, thus' establishing a solid front between: the Caspian and the Black Seas. Since February 3rd he lias taken prisoner 31,CC0, exclusive of thousands of pick and wounded. His captures include 267 guns.' The whole success was due to the Bolshevists' army'e transport being cut oil". The Cossacks cut the enemy's communications between Tarkeud and Rcnburg, and compelled the Ural Cossacks to fall back to Gurier, on the north coast of the Caspian Sea, which General Toletoff is holding. STOCKHOLM,. February 16. TII3 arrest of Radeck, the Bolshevist emissary m Berlin, was a great blow to Lena's plans for winning the German proletariat, and damped tho ardour of the Spartacusers. Radek used Berlin as a cantre for a .wide-spread system of proselytising! aided by arfiple funds. His documents proved the existence bf a plan for a rising m Germany and a simultaneous invasion by a strong force of Russian Bolshevists. He reckoned Germany was not equal to quelling the countryside revolt combined with powerful attacks "upon Lithuania. In view of the danger Hindenburg hurried to Colb-urg. Encounters have already occurred with Bolshevists at Windau, where Bolshe- ' vlsts are reported to be massacring German- prisoners. (Keuter's Telegram.) STOCKHOLM, February 16. The Hamburger Fremdcmblat-t states that the Bolshevists have deserted Windau owing' to bombardment by a British warship. ( (United Service.) PARIS, February 17. Renewed pressure is exerted on the War- Council for immediate intervention m Russia. The French axe urging military action against the Bolshevists on a large scale, but the Americans continue t-he.r opposition to a. military policy .>