RUSSIAN SITUATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14111, 3 May 1920, Page 5

RUSSIAN SITUATION.

POLISH OFFENSIVE. PROCEEDING WITH G REAT GREAT SUCCESS. Press Association—Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, Saturday. The “Times’” Warsaw correspondent says the Polish offensive proceeds with great success, and has reached the junction of the Dnieper and Pripet riv ers, less than 50 miles from Kioff. The cavalry have crossed the River Letreff, and the infantry have swung along on the- Zitonur-Kieff road. Two Red divisions were cut off and surrounded by the Poles and Ukrainians. APPROACHING KIEFF. ~ (Received Monday, 9.0 a.m.) LONDON, Sunday. The Dolish-Ukraiiiian advance, yesy. „ ten-day reached within 30 miles .of Kioff, with"cavalry'-screens well 'ahead* PETROGRAD’S NAME. . CHANGED once more. ...... PARIS, Saturday. The Echo,die Paris states that Petrograd will in future be called Leningrad, in honour of Lenin’s fiftieth birthday* ALARM AMONG BOLSHEVIKS. (Received Monday, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, Saturday. A Moscow wireless message indicates that there is alarm among . the ; Bolsheviks, and proceeds to state that a decisive war has’ commenced which must only-end by the complete desi ruction of the Polish squires. ; Kioff and Kharkoff 'are preparing H> ‘ defeud the revolution. -i-::/ ;*'? ' _• SEVERE FIGHTING. (Received Monday, 9.45 a.m.) / VLADIVOSTOK, Saturday.) W It is reported that there is" severo fighting in China and f Transbaikalia ' between the remnants of Kolchak’s army and the opposing Bolshevig-tUfaCf tions. • . . • It is understood that the Japanese; forces, with the consent of the Allies, arq the Kolchak forces. * Japanese reinforcements arc jeomstautly arriving.