THE RUSSIAN TANGLE

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14260, 10 January 1920, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN TANGLE

FURTHER BOLSHEVIK SUCCESSES, MANY PRISONERS CAPTURED. MUCH BOOTY SEIZED. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received January 10, 11.45 a.m. LONDON, January 8. A Bolshevik wireless states: Wo captured 4000 prisoners in the Don district, and 224 tanks, and made similar captures of prisoners and booty elsewhere, including 20 six-inch guns, 07 locomotives, and 1800 waggons, witli shells and dynamite, near Tomsk. BOLSHEVIK OUTRAGES. PRISONERS ILL-TREATED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received January 10, 11.45 a.m. LONDON, January 8. Joseph Inigo Jones, who was living at KharkolT until General Deniken rescued him, supplied a horrible narrative of Bolshevik outrages in the town. He says that Jewish Commissaries forced prisoners’ arms into boiling water, and then pulled the skin off like a glove. Many Christians were crucified. JAPANESE IN SIBERIA. ONLY A PROTECTIVE FORCE. Received January 10, 12.45 a.m. SYDNEY,, January 9. The Australian Press Association is officially informed that Japanese tropps were sent- to Irkutsk not as a fighting force, but merely to protect Japanese residents. BOLSHEVIK LEADERS’ PROPOSALS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received Jan. 10, 12.45 a.m.) REVAL, Jan. 7. Newspapers assert that Lenin, Trotsky and Tchitcherin are prepared to discontinue the.present terrorism and to abolish revolutionary tribunals. LEADING ENGLISHMAN MURDERED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received Jan. 10, 1.20 a.m. COPENHAGEN, Jan. 7. Bolshevik newspapers state that Mr Arthur MacPherson, a well-known member of the British colony at Petrograd, has been killed by the Bolsheviks. SOVIET AMBASSADOR’S ARREST. PROPAGANDA DISCLOSURES. Received January 10, -1.50 a.m. WASHINGTON, January 7. The arrest of Martens, the Soviet Ambassador, haij been ordered in connection with disclosures concerning Soviet propaganda in the United States. LETT-POLISH ADVANCE CONTINUES (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received Jan, 10, 1.50 a.m. COPENHAGEN, Jan. 7. The Lettish and Polish forces, continuing their advance, have re-estab-lished railway communication between Riga, Dvinsk and Warsaw.