28 FEBRUARY 1920, Page 2

Archangel and Murmansk passed into Bolshevik hands last week, apparently

as the result of local risings. The whole of Russia proper, north of the Don, is thus controlled by the Terrorists of Moscow. In the Don Valley General Denikin and the Cossacks still hold firm. On Friday week they advanced across the Don to Rostoff and took it, but the Bolsheviks profess to have recaptured the town this week. The position on the western frontier is uncertain. The Poles have repulsed one Bolshevik attack and await another. Meanwhile they have received peace proposals from Moscow.