RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16822, 30 May 1919, Page 7

RUSSIA.

. FINNISH 'ARMY. • NEARIN& PETROGRAD. Australian and N.Z. Cable Aisn ; NEW YORK, Slay 17. The New York "Times" Copenhagen correspondent learns from a reliable source that, General Mannerheim, with a Finnish army, is within twenty miles of Petrograd. He expects to entet the city in a few days, TBie Bolsbevik authorities have left Petrograd, and are going to Moscow. ALLIED INTERVENTION RE, SENTE'D. • | Received Sp.hi., May 29th. PARIS, May 21. ' M.' ■ Kerensky and sereii_ other inem-1 hers of the first Russian National Assembly, and officials of two other Republican Societies, hare issued a manifesto protesting against the reccgni. tion of Admiral Kolchak and Allied intervention in Russia. until asked lor by a Government which is willing to reconstitute a National Assembly. BRITISH MISSION. PREPARED TO FEED PETROGRAD. Received 10.50 p.m.. May 29 th. LONDON, May 29. Stockholm telegrams state that Sir Hubert Gtongh, in charge of the British military mission in Finland,' announces tihat complete arrangements have been made to feed the people of Petrograd directly the city is cap°tured. The Bolshevist leaders have fled leaving the town in the hands of leader less soldiers and street fightiiig has commenced between the workmen of Petrograd and the Letts and Chinese who tiow control the citv. Add CRIMES: "-' tnfwyp pup