RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12753, 24 September 1919, Page 7

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

DENIKIN’S FURTHER SUCCESSES. By Tel« t i tph—Pw*s Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received September 24, 12.20 a.ra.) LONDON, September 22. Jhe War Office announces that General Denikin’s successes continue. In addition, to the capture of Kursk. which is an important junction on the' Khar-kov-Moscow railway, tho volunteers arc progressing on the whole front between Kiev and the Black Sea. General Mamontov’s operations behind the Bolshevik lines continue successfully. His anti-Bolshevik force has occupied Penzia and Saratov. ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE KOLCHAK. . Br Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.2. Cable Association. (Received September 24, 11.40 a.m.) f. PARIS, Septemb er 23. Omsk telegrams report that General Kolchak is advancing on all parts of the front, and that there is fierce fighting ui the direction of Kurgan. A wireless message from Moscow states that a bomb was thrown into the guardroom of Primisco. occupied bv Kolchak- Six were killed and twelve injured. The Moscow All-Russian discovered an anti-Soviet organisation called the National Centre, with widespread ramifications, chiefly composed of cadets also a few moderate monarchists and Mensheviks. Documents were found proving that the Centre had communication with General Denikin. The Comnussion executed sixty-six perrons, including Stchepkin (an ex-member of the ■ 0 r/as chairman of the National Centre), Professors Astrakoff and Volkoff, Prince Obolenskv and two Generals. Those awaiting trial include i rmco Andromikoff. allegedly one of Rasputin s accomplices, and Rozamoff. Ihe latter is a. Menshevik, ) PARIS, September 23. Japan places troops at tho Allies’ disposal _to relieve tho Czechoslovaks m Siberia.