RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 May 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ALLIES AT MURMANSK*

SRIVING THE SOUTHWARD," , .

Received May 20, 5,5 p.m\ New York, May 12. Despatches from Archangel say that the Allied Murmansk forces are driving the Bolsheviks southward.—Aus.-N Z. Cable Assn. REIGN OF TEE&6R, PLAGUE AND PLUNDER. Copenhagen, May 12. The Bolsheviks are exercising a frightful reign of terror in Riga and murdering many Without sentence, The Reds carry off their victims at night in motorcars and slaughter* them in the suburbs. The Bolsheviks countenance wholesale plundering. An epidemic is raging, including smallpox, black plague, and spotted typhus. There is a heavy death-roll and a great shortage of medicines and doetOH.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. • • . THE NAVAL FIGHT. DEFEAT OP THE BOLSHEVIKS. Copenhagen, May Id. Five Bolshevik cruisers bombarded the Finnish coast. Three British light cruisers came up and sank one of the (Bolshevik vessels. Almost the whole of the crew were drowned. The rest of the Bolsheviks fled to Kfonstadt. London, 'May Id. The naval engagement in the Baltic lasted 36 minutes. One of the escaping enemy ships ran ashore. BIG DEATH-RATE IN PETROGRAD. Stockholm, May 12. It ie reported that 30,000 aTe dying weekly in Petrograd as the result Of starvation.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. A VICTORY FOR DENEKIN. London, May 12. An official communique states that Denekin is personally conducting operations. Tsarhfcin has already been captured, with 10,000 prisoners, 28 guns, and 120 machine-guns.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoeiation.