BRITISH TROOPS IN PERIL.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15040, 7 April 1919, Page 5

BRITISH TROOPS IN PERIL.

ANXIETY AND INDIGNATION.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association;

London, April 4. | jhe perilous position of 12,000 Bri- M tish troops in North Russia is arousing intense indignation and anxiety. The newspapers demand energetic and united • Allied action. The papers declare that tbeleace Conference's failure to define ' a Kussian policy is responsible for the ' situation. i, A Bolshevist attack on the Archangel front near Bolshoozorki was beaten off. s Ihe British casualties were light. m the House of Commons, Mr Bonar Law said he was unable to make a statement regarding, Koltchak's Government, xvhich enjoyed our support and s A S athv ? until Paris decided on the i Allied policy in Russia.