BOLSHEVIKS BEHEAD AMERICANS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 7564, 7 May 1919, Page 5

BOLSHEVIKS BEHEAD AMERICANS.

Received May 6, 8 p.m. LONDON, May 5. A Helsingfors telegram to the "Daily Express" says: Bolshevist spies learned details of the defences of Shenkursk, on the Vaga river, 275 miles south-eastward of Archangel, and organised a detachment of axemen, who attacked the American 1 guard duriffg the night. They beheaded sixty out of eighty pickets, and gained an entrance to the fort.

DETAILS OP THE BATTLE.

CANADIAN AND RUSSIAN ARTIL-

LERY DO GOOD WORK.

Received May 6, 9 p.m

y LONDON, May 5. General Ironsides reports: The Bolshevik bombardment of Vaga lasted several hours. Dug-outs withstood the shelling and protected the Infantry well. The enemy assembled under cover of woods, but were speedily dispersed when they advanced in the open. One party of Bolsheviks attempted to get round the British flank, but the Russian Infantry counter-attaoked and &&■ i'eated the enemy. General Ironside paid a tribute to the Canadian artillery and all the Russian artillerymen manning the British sixty-pounders, which were a deciding factor in the battle.