RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16801, 3 April 1919, Page 7

RUSSIA.

A 'PRINCELY FAMILY. ■m MURDERED BY BOLSHEVIKS, Australian, and N.Z. Cable Assn. Received 10.10* p.m., April 2nd. LONDON, March 2G. Miss Maud Miller, governess in Princess Volkonsky's family in Ukraine, lias arrived in London. She relates derails of how the family was wiped out. A party of fifteen Bolshevik soldiers rushed Volkonsky's house, and shot Prince Boris before hig mother's eyes while at breakfast. Volkonsky and his daughters, Princesses Natashia and Matiana, escaped to a neighbouring town, where they remained unmolested for six weeks. Then the Bolsheviks cut Volkonsky's throat, killed Natashia with spears and smashed in Matiana's head. Previously the Bolshevik 3 had wiped out neighbouring families, so that the Volkonskys lived in daily,terTorl Miss Miller reached England via Constantinople. FIGHTING IN UKRAINE. .. ■ . . LONDON, April 1. A Russian wireless message says that Tchitche'rin sent a message to Belakun that Germany, in obedience to the Entente, had formed new detachments, for a general offensive The French General Neissel, ab "Warsaw, is forming a junction with the Polish array, which ia the centre of the new invasion. The right flank consists of Petlura's troops. The German left flank has taken Tukkum, and is now approaching Nponevij. The Poles * are progressing towards ' Vilna and ] Minsk, "and have occupied Baranovltchi. The Ukrainian right is completely disorganised. Simultaneously with! the upheaval in Hungary, Kolchak, with the Siberian army, commenced a rapid offensive in the east. He penetrated 'through Perm and occupied Ufa. This advance has been stopped and rapid progress made •against Petlura's forces. i . i MOVE AGAINST ROUMANIA DEFEATED. Received 8.55 p.m., April 2nd. LONDON, April 2. '; The '"'Daily Chronicle" states that the latest information-is that General Petlura's troops have been reinforced and have''turn'e'd the flank of the Bolsheviks, thus defeating their move'against Roiimania.,.