RUSSIA.
BOLSHEVIK OUTRAGES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Jan. 8. A Bolshevik wireless states: "We captured 4000 prisoners in the Don district with 220 guns and four tanks, and we made similar captures of prisoners and bootv elsewhere, including 20 Cin. guns, 97 locomotives, 1800 wagons, with shells and dynamite near Tomsk. Joseph Inigo Jones, who was living at Kharkoff until General Denikin rescued him, supplies a horrible narrative of Bolshevik outrages in the town. He says Jewish commissiaries forced prisoners' arms into boiling water and then pulled the skin off like a glove. Many Christians were crucified. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. BOLSHEVIK CLAIMS. Received Jan. 11, 5.5 p.m. London, Jan. 8. A wireless message from Moscowstates that Red Cavalry has captured Berdiansk. The Bolsheviks claim they have thus secured the mastery of the Azov Sea.—-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 January 1920, Page 5
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