RUSSIAN PROBLEM.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 17779, 30 January 1920, Page 9

RUSSIAN PROBLEM.

BOLSHEVIKS IN SIBERIA. LONDON, Jan. 17. Mr Wilton writes from Vladivostok that the Bolsheviks are superseding the social revolutionaries everywhere in West Baikal as soon as the Allied troops depart. The Czechs have been waiting for a chance against Koltchak, whose regime they disliked. They attacked and disarmed Semenoff’s forces sent to relieve Irkutsk. Semenoff remains lat Chita like a cork tossci on the waves. He has proclaimed himself supreme ruler of Eastern Russia. FIGHTING IN NORTH RUSSIA. LONDON, Jan. 28. Advices from North Russia state that a North Russian communique says that two thousand Finns with machine-guns, horse and reindeer | transport are attacking the famous j monastery at Petchenga with the evii dent intention of looting great trea. Lsures. The inhabitants of neigh- ! bouring villges are feeling panicl stricken. I JAPANESE REPULSE BOLSHEVIKS. TOKIO, Jan. 28. An official communique states: ReI peated Bolshevik attacks in the Us- ; suri region were all repulsed. The I Japanese were content to act on the defensive. UKURAINIAN ARMY OF 60,000. VIENNA. Jan. 28. The Neue Presse states that the Ukrainian Army of sixty thousand is operating against the Bolsheviks in the district of Kamenetz, Podolsk. It is hoped the army may check the advance of Bolshevism on that front. POLISH AERIAL FLEET. WARSAW, Jan. 28. The Polish army has formed an aerial fleet to be called Kosciusko.