RUSSIAN SITUATION

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16033, 26 January 1920, Page 2

RUSSIAN SITUATION

GALICIANS JOIN BOLSHEVIKS,

Australian, and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, January 22. A Russian wireless states that Galician troops, formerly serving Under Poilara, have joined the Soviet Army and will fight the Poles.

intervention ,bY ALLIES.' PARIS, January 23. Foci reported to the Supreme Council ifcat hfe estimated that at the least four European divisions •would be necessary to organise the Caucasus. The Council, after examination of the situation, recognised that England, with her heavy commitments in Ireland, Egypt, India, Mid Mesopotamia, had absorbed all her volunteers. It was decided that her intervention consist only of supplying arms and ammunition to the mountaineers of Georgia and sending several detachments of marines .to Baku.