BOLSHEVISM.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 1682, 31 May 1919, Page 8

BOLSHEVISM.

ANTI-MOVEMENT IN UKRAINE.. , By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and J\ Z »Cnbio- A^an „„ ; " LONDON, May 29. Iho "DaJ.) lulugnipliV Geneva correspondent states that tiio Russian Bokiwviks hare boon expelled from the \vholo of northern' 'Ukraine, and also from a large sector on tho right bank of the Dnieper.; .'•fho Ukrainian Revolutionary Comlr.rcfcce at Bilaceruka, has assuomd the dircotion of three anti-Bolshevik armies, under Generals Grigorietf, Dclency and Sokolovsky. Although'the Committee'is Bolshevik in tone, it is bitterly opposed to the Russian' Bolsheviks' interference, and is energetically attempting to drive them out. . ESTHONIANS'. SUCCESS. A Moscow wireless message states that the Bolsheviks have abandoned Gdov and ■ retired to new positions to the south. • Bolsligviks warship's bombarded villages northward of tho' Narva.: The 'Esthoiiians are ' advancing in the direction of Yamburn and Narva. Tiiey captured an armed train, nlonv.machine guns, aii'd 1500 Bolsheviks. " ; . ANTI-BOLSHEVIKS' I'REDICA- 1 v v ; . ". MENT. POSITION AT MERV SERIOUS. LONDON, May 20. The Australian Press learns that the anti-Bolshevist insuraents irt the Tipper Don, who . number 25,000,' are suffering ■ from shortage of .ammunition, medical stores and lack of officers.' '/They hope to join General Denikon. They have already cut the Bols'yevik lines to tho northern front. The Bolshevists defeated the transCauca_sian troops advancing on Merv. The situation there is serious. The ripening crops are filling into the Bolshevists' hands. On the other 'Russian fronts the Bolshevists are retreating. The lack of discipline of the troops has compelled the reintroduction of a stringent military regime. The Bolshevists are rushing reinforcements to Gachina, to protect Petrograd against the northern Russians and Esthonians. Pierce fighting is anticipated..