BOLSHEVISM

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16800, 2 April 1919, Page 9

BOLSHEVISM

BARGAINING BY ALLIES. A NEWSPAPER ASSERTION. . Australian and N.Z. Cable LONDON, March 81. Mr Lansbury, editor of the "Daily Herald," asserts that the Allies have decided upon an understanding with the Bolshevists, on a basis providing that the Bolshevists should confine their activities to itheir present territory arid that the Allies should withdraw from Russia. THE STORY DISCOUNTED. LONDON, March 31: Diplomatic d'rcles discount the possibility'of an arrangement with the Bolsheviks. RUSSIAN LEADERS WARNED. Mr Oeicil Harmsworth, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated that the Russian Bolshevist leaders have been informed that they will be held person r ally responsible for the safety of the British prisoners. - < THE SUGGESTED CORDON. BRITISH AND AMERICAN OPPOSITION. PARIS, March 30. "Le:Matin" declares"that the Council ! of Four decided to Bend arms and material to Roumania to enable the latter rapidly to reorganise her forces; also ' that General Mangin, who has been ' recalled from the occupied area in Ger I many, has.been appointed commanderI in-chief' in Roumania, with full power i over the Polish army in creating a 1 cordon from the Baltic to the Black I Sea. It is understood that ithe suggested J cordon'. from" the Black Sea to the J Baltic does not .meet yith American and I British approval, being regarded as impracticable.