A BOLSHEVIK DISENCHANTMENT

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11470, 23 February 1918, Page 5

A BOLSHEVIK DISENCHANTMENT

BELIEF IN GERMAN BOLSHEVISM ENTIRELY SHATTERED. London, Feb. 21. The Daily Chronicle’s Petrograd correspondent writes; The Bolshevik Government, believing the German soldiers would refuse to attack revolutionary Russia, is surprised and alarmed by the German advance. They have decided to suspend demobilisation and have ordered the retiring troops to destroy military stores. The ceased to exist owing to desertions and the demobilisation, and any resistance will bo by guerilla warfare. The Germans apprcntly intend to force an entrance into the Gulf of Finlandjand land troops on the Finnish coast. A captured army order, signed by Prince Leopold, states that the object of the advance is not annexation, but the re-establishment of order and the prevention of the spread of anarchism in Western Europe.

GENERAL ALEXIEPF’S PLAN. SOUTH RUSSIA TO BE SWEPT OF CHAOS. twais* Times. Petrograd, Feb. 21. General Alexieff; has elaborately planned in conjunction with Generals Korniloff, Eudel, Markoff and Deuken, to seize the railways and cut off all communication with Central and Northern Russia from the south. They will make a clean sweep of the Southern Bolsheviks If the blocKade is effective. It is stated that the Bolsheviks fear the superior discipline of Aleixeff’s army and the ability of his large staff of officers. The result of the plan will ultimately depend on General Alexieff getting sufficient artillery and munitions.