RUSSIAN AFFAIRS
: 1 BOLSHEVIK OUTRAGES. CLERGY MURDERED. CHURCHES ALU CLOSED. (Reuter.) (Received Dec. 17, 12.20 a.m.) ARCHANGEL, Dec. 15. When the Bolsheviks for the second! time occupied Voronezh, they massacred whole families and executed all the- priests. The Archbishop of Tikhon* awi. Tarsky was hanged at the gate, aridall the churches have been closed. KOLCHAK’S INTENTIONS. CONCESSIONS TO JAPAN. IF ALLIES DO NOT ASSIST. Received December 17, 8.5 a.m. i NEW YORK. December 16. 3 The Chicago Tribune’s Paris correspondent interviewed Mr Frederick Corse, a former chairman of the Russo* American Chandler of Commerce,, who sjtid; “I learn on the highest authority that General Kolchak has informed the United States that unless the Allies extend aid to the non-Bolshevik forces, he may be compelled to cede a portion of Siberia to Japan in order to save it from. the Bolsheviks.” PSACE TERRJSt TO ESTHOIMIA. , CESSION OP TERRITORY. (Australia!* and N.Z. Cable Assn.j i .Received December 17, 8.35 a.m. COPENHAGEN,. December 14. Lenin’s-terms to- the Esthoniahs in-, dude a claim for a strategic frontier, depriving;the Esthouians of a good part of their territory,,also that the Esthonians should-, be responsible for the large part of the Russian debt. FURTHER FIGHTING, ' BOLSHEVIKS CAPTURE. TOWNS. ' SUCCESSFUL. CAUCASIAN RAID. I (Australian and N.Z. Gable Assn.) Received December IT,. 10.5ffa.rn. LONDON, December 10. A War Office;communique states that the; Caucasus army’s- cavalry Hecs- raided northward- of-Tsartisin, taking, prisoner 2500 Bolshevik.. The latter have captured Kharkoffy'Eoltav.a, audßeidichev. TTis-reported that General Petloura has escaped to Boland.
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Waikato Times, Volume 91, Issue 14242, 17 December 1919, Page 5
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