RED RUSSIA.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 17780, 31 January 1920, Page 5

RED RUSSIA.

CZECH ARMY IN PRECARIOUS POSITION. (Reuter.) Received January 30, 8.15 p.m. LONDON, January 30. A message dated the Ist states that 15,000 Czechs are spread along six hundred versts of railway westward of Irkutsk. The line is damaged in many places, as all employees refuse duty. Each party of Czechs is compelled to repair the lines as they travel, hewing trees for engine fuel. A hundred engines are lying derelict, and there are great piles of stranded rolling stock. The amount of human suffering is incalculable. Fortunately the Czechs are well supplied with food. The whole country having turned Bolshevik, they are in a precarious position. their artillery and ammunition being deficient for serious fighting. BRUSILOFF LEADS THE REDS. BOLSHEVIKS TO INVADE i POLAND. NEW YORK. January 29. I The World’s Warsaw correspond- | ent learns that General Brusiloff, j whose family are held as hostages ' by the Bolsheviks, is leading the j Red Army, which is composed of ! two million jmen. It is understood ' that Trotsky intends to make two ' drives against Poland, one in the . direction of Vilna, and the other . through the Carpathians. EBB AND FLOW. BOLSHEVIK PROCLAMATION. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received January 31. 12.35 a.m. LONDON. January 29. The Bolsheviks are widely distributing a proclamation amongst the troops dividing the w hites into two i categories, first the capitalists with , their sons and officers, end the sec- ! ond those like Cossacks who are i anti-Bolshevik because of ignorance, i The proclamation urges the cessa- j t:on of unnecessary killing of the lat- | ter, but re-emphasises the necessity j of exterminating the first. The ' Letts continue to advance brilliantly I on a front of 90 miles and have at- I tained a depth of 65 miles. The | Lett army of 45.000 has reached the i line of the Lutzin river in South Russia. The Bolsheviks, after regrouping their forces and restoring the lines of communication, are re-advancing firstly in the direction of the Crimea, and secondly south-westward in the ; Odessa area. Progress across the i narrow isthmus is at present stem- i med. The Bolsheviks occupied j Elisavitgrad. The Don army is ■ maintaining the position on the Sal I and Don in the face of vigorous at- ; tempts to force a passage. The! Russian retreat continues most or- ■ derly. The Red cavalry are gaining slowly at the cost of severe losses. I • The fighting spirit of Denikin’s men ;] has revived. Lettish official mes- j 1 sages proclaim another victory. { 1 BOLSHEVISM TRIUMPHANT. |; RECRUITS FROM WHITE FORCES i< (The Times.) L Received January 31. 1.5 a m. LONDON, Jan. 29. | Hartin messages state that the Bol- .«■ .eviks offered the Czechs repatriation j ' on the condition they surrendered Koi- • chak. gold and military supplies. They ’ “ threw Kolchak to the lions.” but still hold the gold. A Polish division murdered their officers and then joined the Bolsheviks. The Mongols deserted Semenoff. whose force is reduced to 20)0 Cossacks. The situation in Ussure and the Amur regions could not be worse, < The Bolsheviks are everywhere t-fi- ; uinphant owing to the collapse of Koi- ; (hak. Practically the whole popula- ( lion aie ready to accept Bolshevism. i