RUSSIAN SITUATION

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14257, 7 January 1920, Page 6

RUSSIAN SITUATION

THE TRIUMPH OF BOLSHEVISM. POPULACE FLEE IN PANIC. DENIKEN'S POSITION DESPERATE. (■Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, January 5. Advices from Russia state that the Reds are completely in possession of the D-onetz coal basin. Their cavalry are only 20 miles from Taganrog, and General Deniken's troops, who are fleeing panic stricken, have evacuated Tsaritsyn, which was the principal bulwark -of General Deniken's right wing. The Reds are at the gate of the Cossack capital, Novocherkassk. General Deniken's overthrow is not confirmed, but the position of his armies is desperate. The Allies are sending steamers to evacuate civilians from Odessa. Mr Harold Williams in a delayed telegram from Rostaff, gives a glimpse of the vast retreat in bitter winter over the icy Russian steppes. A great migration precedes the soldiers. Traders, workmen, women and children are abandoning everything hurrying away in trains, carts and afoot. Peasants and Cossacks are moving southward in great caravans with lierds of cattle, horses and camels as though flying from a terror that walketh by day. Upon the issue depends the stability of Europe, for the Bolsheviks are certain to turn elsewhere for conquests. The Times dn an editorial says that suerly none can suppose that triumphant Bolshevism will wallow contentedly until It dies from its own putridity. The more it decays at the centre the •morp it will press outwards into China, Poland, Armenia and India. TEHERAN, January 3. Soviet troops have captured Kr'asnovodsk on the east coast .of the Caspian Sea, and are reported to" be predominant at Baku.