RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12726, 22 August 1919, Page 5

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

DEHIKEN’S SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS. GERMAN INTRIGUE. By Telegraph—Proas Aasociatioit —Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received August 22, 8.65 a.m.) LONDON, August 20The War Office confirms the Bolshevik admissions that General Deniken’s loft wing is continuing its progress brilliantly and successfully. General Denikeu, further northward, has occupied Cherkassy, where the last railway in the Bolshevik possession crosses the Dnieper. Although the Bolshevik-evacuation of Odessa is not confirmed, there is no doubt tho city’s fate is now sealed, and thus Soviet Russia will lose its last footing on the Black Sea coastGERMAN INTRIGUE IN 188 BALTIC STATES. The Australian Press Association learns that the authorities will issue m a few days a lengthy account of German intrigue in Latvia since the armistice. The delay of von der Goitz’s withdrawal proves that Germany had not abandoned her design of extending her influence in the Baltic States, and regaining there something in compensation for what she lost beyond tho Rhine. DENIKEN’S MOVEMENTS. Interest centres for tho moment on Denikeu’a western front, and probably his success will shortly bring him into touch with Allied troops on his left flank. This will be the signal for the uprising of the whole of Ukraine. THE BOLSHEVIK FORCES. The latest information shows tho total Bolshevik troops on all fronts to bo 485,000, with 72-7.000 troops of inferior kind in the interior. BOLSHEVIK MASSACRES. The. Bolsheviks completely devastated stainitzas of tho Upper Don. The population has undergone unspeakable cruelties- Children were killed jn their cradles and old people were surrounded with straw and burned. Five thousand persons were executed in Mignlinskya and Kaganskaya, and 940 men shot in three other stainitzas. '