BOLSHEVIK ACTIVITY

Waikato Times, Volume 90, Issue 14022, 27 March 1919, Page 5

BOLSHEVIK ACTIVITY

♦ BIG SPRING OFFENSIVE CONTEMPLATED. WITH RISINGS IN GERMANY AND AUSTRIA. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received March 26, 7.45 p.m. LONDON, March 24. The National Zcitung states that a Spartacist deputation from Berlin lias reached Pctrograd and is keeping the Spartacists informed of the conditions and developments of the Bolshevik army with a view to a Spring offensive timed to coincide with fresh risings in Germany and the Communists’ efforts to capture Vienna and arouse Austria. DESIGNS IN INDIA. STIRRING Tip "trouble. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received March 26, 7.45 p.m. HELSINGFORS, March 25. Mr John Pollock, a British journalist, who was condemned to death at Pctrograd, escaped with documentary evidence that the Bolsheviks spent large sums in the autumn of 1918 in sending bombs and infernal machines to Bombay, preparatory to a Bolshevik uprising in India. EVACUATION OF ODESSA. NOT YET CONFIRMED. HEAVY FIGHTING WITH THE FRENCH. (Reuter’s Telegrams.) Received March 26, 7.45 p.m. LONDON, March 25. No official report of the evacuation of Odessa has been received in London. It is confirmed that the Bolsheviks occupied Kherson and Nicolaeff after heavy fighting with the French troops. The Bolsheviks now hold the whole of the Ukraine. The German garrisons there handed over , their arms to the Bolsheviks and fraternised with them. UKRAINE POSITION OBSCURE. APPARENT COLLAPSE OP GOVERNMENT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn,) Received March 26, 8.10 p.m. LONDON, March 25. Mr Cecil Harmsvvorth, in the House of Commons, said that the situation in the Ukraine was obscure. The Government had apparently collapsed before Bolsheviks who had advanced in certain sections. There was no immediate danger at Odessa and ( its evacuation was not intended.