RUSSIAN SITUATION
IRKUTSK IN FLAMES.
REVOLUTIONARIES IN POSSESSION
(The Times.) Received January 16, 1.5 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 15. Irkutsk is aflame, and revolutionaries hold possession of the town.
SOVIET ARMY IN RUSSIA
APPROACHING THE JAPANESE
ANXIOUS TO AVOID A CONFLICT
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received January 16, 9.30 a.m. LONDON, January 13. A Moscow .wireless states that the Soviet army will soon arrive m proximity to the Japanese, but will not. undertake any aggressive action calculated to provoke a collision with the Japanese.
THE DEFEAT OF DENIKEN
DUE TO GOOD CAVALRY WORK,
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received January. IG, 9.30 a.m. LONDON, January 13. The Soviet victorf over Admiral Kolchak is due to the support of the Siberian peasants, and the wholesale desertion of Kolchak’s troops. The wireless message docs not mention Kolchk’s capture. It says that General Dcniken’s defeat was dut to the Red cavalry, created in order to answer General Mamontofl ’s raid. The exploits of the cavalry under Generals Budenny and Dumcnko will ever be famous in military annals.
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Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14265, 16 January 1920, Page 5
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