RUSSIA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16455, 6 June 1919, Page 3

RUSSIA.

EVACUATION OF MOSCOW.

BOLSHEVIKS DEPARTING SOUTH.

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.

(Received June 6, 9.25 a.m.)

COPENHAGEN, May 25. Typhus is raging in Moscow. The evacuation of the city has begun. Prominent Bolsheviks are Celling their property and departing southward. The Bolsheviks fear their power is ending. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.'

LENIN’S REPORTED REQUEST. FOR ARMISTICE WITH KOLTCHAK. (Received June 6, 11.10 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, May 25. Helsingfors newspapers report that Lenin ottered Admiral Koltehak an armistice. Koltehak has not replied. General Deniken has forwarded to the Allies his political programme. Its main point is the destruction of Bolshevism and the establishment of a united Russia with decentralised territorial autonomy and agricultural re-forms.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. KOLCHAK’S ARMY CHECKED. ITS HEAVY LOSSES. (Received June 6, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, June 5. Several reports received recently have indicated a check to Kolchak’s army. The Swedish Socialist paper, Folkots Dagblad, asserts that Kolchak lost 40,000 prisoners and 100 guns near Uda.-—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. TYPHUS IN MOSCOW. COPENHAGEN, May 23. Typhus in Moscow is causing 3000 deaths weekly.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.