RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16884, 4 August 1919, Page 7

RUSSIA.

DENIKEN WINS GREAT SUCCESS. CAPTURE OF, POLTAVA. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ■ Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. - . Received 5.5 p.m., August 3rd. ' , " ' LONDON, July 31: The War Office announces th.it Genoral Deniken has captured Poltava with' great booty. ■ His success is important strategically, commercially and -politically. '; , (Poltava is a railway junction 200 miles.east of Kieff. "Peter the Great won a decisive' victory there over Charles of Sweden).

- . TWO'VICTORIES'. , The War Office reports *hat General Deniken -has achieved a great victory in capturing Kamisli. Five . thousand prisoners were taken, also many guns. Deniken pursned tbo fleeing enemy twelve miles.

\ FAMINE AND DESERTIONS. x\n .intercepted wireless message from Moscow reveals that Trotsky addressing the Sociats on July 29. admitted that the position in South Russia was critical. A portion of the Red Army had joined the_ enemy, and famine .was terribly menacing. A HALF YEAR'S DEFICIT.' ■,

The Russian Bolshevist Budget, re-' a deficit of 3000 millions sterling. THE BRITISH EVALUATION. ' General Sir Henry Rawlinson ''proceeds to North Russia to supervise the evncuntion. The "War Office is sending marines to North Russia to assist a safe evacuation from Archangel and Murmansk.

The Bolshevists claim that they have advanced fourteen miles northward of Onega. After White regiments mutinied, they arretted their officers and joined the Bolsheviks.