WORKERS AND THE BOLSHEVIK

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15001, 24 February 1919, Page 5

WORKERS AND THE BOLSHEVIK

INCREASING OPPOSITION

THE MILITARY SITUATION

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received Feb. 24, 0.30 a.m.) London, Feb. 21

The Australian Press Association1 learns that reliable information from pro-Bolshevist sources in Russia indicates that the enlightened workers' opposition to Bolshevist rule increases. The Bolshevist wireless service admits that 60,000 workmen struck at Petrograd demanding the cessation of civil war.

The. situation at the Archangel and Murmansk fronts is unchanged, but there are increasing signs that the Bolsheviki are massing forces on those fronts. General Denekin's operations on the southern front have resulted in brilliant successes. The Bolsheviki have been compelled to retire a hundred miles, and their position is extremely uncomfortable. It is anticipated that the majority of these troops will be put out of action.