RUSSIA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16448, 30 May 1919, Page 7

RUSSIA.

BELATED SUMMARY,

OF MILITARY POSITION.

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received May 30, 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, May 17.

The Australian Press Agency learns that the Bolshevist insurgents in the upper Don district number 25,000. They are suffering from shortage of ammunition and medical stores and lack of officers. They hope to join Deniken. They are already out of the Bolshevik lines to the northern front. The Bolsheviks defeated the transCaucasian troops advancing on Merv. The situation there is serious. Ripening crops are falling into the Bolshevists’ hands.

On the other Russian fronts the Bolshevists are retreating. The Jack of discipline in tho troops —has compelled the rointroduction of a stringent military regime. The Bolshevists are rushing reinforcements to Gachina to protect Petrograd against the northern Russians and Esthonians. Fierce fighting is anticipated. Aus.-N.Z-Cable Assn.