FIGHTING IN NORTHERN RUSSIA

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1785, 3 November 1919, Page 7

FIGHTING IN NORTHERN RUSSIA

OFFENSIVE AGAINST RIGA CHECKED ■ < BOLSHEVIK FORCES OUTNUMBER YUDENITCH TROTZKY'S ARMY WELL SUPPLIED WITH MATERIAL By CdbU. — Press Association. — Copyright. (A ft N.Z.) (Rec. November 3,10.5 a.m.) HELSINGFOES, October 31. The German offensive against Riga has been checked, though an occasional bombardment continues. The Letts were chiefly responsible for holding up Colonel Bermondt. The Bolsheviks defending Petrograd now outnumber General Yudenitch's force. They are well supplied with material, including armoured trains. HEAVY FIGHTING IN PROGRESS NEAR GATCHINA. (A. & N.Z.) (Rec. November 3, 11.20 a.m.) STOCKHOLM, October 31. General Yudenitch has improved his position in the direction of Tsarskoie Selo and Krasnoie Selo.' There is heavy fighting in the direction of Gatchina. BOLSHEVIKS CLAIM ANOTHER SUCCESS. {A. & N.Z.) (Eec. November 3, 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, October 31. The Bolsheviks claim to have captured Petropavlovsk. GERMAN EFFORTS TO WITHDRAW TROOPS. (A. ft N.Z.) (Rec. November 3, 10.45 a.m.) BERLIN, October 31. The German Government has declared that the German troops remaining in the Baltic States after November 11 will become deserters, and lose their citizenship. GERMANY EVADING THE TREATY TERMS. NEW MUNICIPAL GUARD BECOMES SECOND ARMY. (United Service.) (Rec. November 3, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, October 30. The Berlin correspondent of the "Pall Mall Gazette" states . that the new Municipal Guard is expected to total 200,000. It virtually becomes a second German Army. Only seasoned soldiers will be permitted to join. The fullest military equipment is provided, and each 100 men are allotted five machineguns. The scheme enables the Government to distribute 10,000 machine-guns beyond the number provided for in the Peace Treaty. AVOIDING AN IMPRESSION THAT SHE IS SHIRKING. (A. ft N.Z.) (Rec. November 3, 9.45 a.m.) BERLIN, October 31. , Herr Erzberger, during the Budget debate, stated that the debt from 1920 would amount to at least 212 milliards of marks. Complaint was made that the Budget did not contain a definite sum to meet the cost of carrying out the Peace conditions. Herr Erzberger replied that Germany did not wish to give the impression that she was shirking her obligations, which impression would be created if too small a sum was mentioned in the Budget. He emphatically declared that Germany wished to fulfil the Treaty. Any inability of Germany to pay her liabilities- would create a similar inability in France, and result in an unheard of international industrial crisis. The Budget was passed. f ROYAL GERMAN REFUGEES IN HOLLAND. WILL NOT BE PREVENTED FROM LEAVING THE COUNTRY. (A. & N.Z.) (Rec. November 3, 9.10 a.m.) THE HAGUE, October 31. It is stated that the Government has not taken, and will not take, any measures to prevent the ex-Crown Prince and the ex-Kaiser from kaving Holland. All the guarding measures are merely to assure their personal safety. They can leave when they choose. The ex-Crown Prince is expected to leave for Germany soon. SCRAP ALL SURFACE SHIPS AND ADMIRALS. ONLY SUBMERSD3LES NEEDED FOR FUTURE NAVAL WARS. I" Times.") (Rec. November 3, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, October 30, Admiral Fisher writes that it is as clear as daylight that future war on the sea will absolutely preclude the use of any war vessel except submersibles. He continues:— Why keep any of the present lot? We must also scrap all admirals and superior officers. They won't do for the new jobs. Put them in a museum, like Greenwich Hospital. Excepting the submarines, all we want is the present naval side of the Air Force, costing a few millions. Yet the Army estimates are over £400,000,000 a year after the most devastating armistice known in the world. Is the whole nation blinded? | SENSATIONAL BOMB PLOT IN IRELAND. CODED INSTRUCTIONS FORBID QUARTER TO POLICE. [(United Service.) (Rec. November 3, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, October 30. A court-martial at Galway, charging Athlone, a resident, with the possession of seditious documents, disclosed a sensational scheme, planned on military lines, to bomb numerous police barracks and seize arms. Coded instructions insisted that no quarter must be given to the police.

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