RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16444, 16 January 1918, Page 7

RUSSIA.

CIVIL WAR. COSSACKS VERSUS BOLSHEVIKI. Reuter's Telegrams. PETROGRAD, Jan. 14A despatch from Rostoff, oil the Don. states that the station at Debaltzovo, on the Ekaterinoslav railway, thrice changed hands. The Cossacks on Thursday night, learning of the despatch from Luganskaya of considerable Bolshevik reinforcements, with artillery, left the station and took a position near tho railway, awaiting their own reinforcements -from Marnipol Fighting was renewed on Friday morn ing. The Bolsheviki advanced from the direction of Toganrof. During Friday a strong force of Don, Terek and Kuban Cossacks traversed Toganrof. going northwards. It is stated that General Kaledin is also going north. A despatch froin TJfia states that Bolshevik artillery had arrived, and that the town is in the hands of Bolsheviki. who seized the banks and Government buildings. Tho Bolsheviki are sending considerable forces with' artillery, to Gheliabinsk, where serious fighting is anticipated. FIGHTING AT VLADIVOSTOCK. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. Received 5.5 p.m., Jan. 15th. NEW YORK, Jan. 14. The United Press correspondent at Tokio reports that disorders are increasing at Vladivostok. A battle between Bolsheviki and Cossacks is imminent.

The Bolsheviki, aided by reinforcements, defeated the Cossacks at Irkutsk.

A BOLSHEVIK PEACE ARGUMENT Received 8 p.m., Jan. 15th. WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. Official reports from Petrograd states that de-mobilised Russian officers aro ordered to report for service atelyThis is interpreted to mean that the BoJsheviki plan an armed demonstra»tion against Germany. UKRAINIANS DISARMED. Received 11.35 p.m., Jan. loth. PETROGRAD, Jan. 14. A despatch from Kharkoff states that Maximalists disarmed the Second Ukrainian regiment. After surrounding the barracks with armoured cars and machine-guns they opened fire, whereupon the Ukrainians surrendered, with seven thousand rifles amd 13 machine-guns. FIGHTING THREATENED IN CAPITAL. A correspondent forecasts a recrudescence of internecine strife in the capital, owing to a belief that it is the Bolshevik intention to declare the forthcoming Congress of Svoiets as the National Convention, in lieu of the Constituent Assembly. A significant fact is that two cruiser destroyers have arrived, for which an ice channel was specially broken. The Social Revolutionaries Committee, the first of all Russian Soviets, " vigorously urging that a citizens' army be organised to defend the Assembly by force.