RUSSIA'S FUTURE.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16265, 16 July 1918, Page 7

RUSSIA'S FUTURE.

ALLIED EFFORT AT REGENERATION FRENCH GAINS ON WEST FRONT. FOURTH YEAR—349th DAY.

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS. ALLIED INTERVENTION EFFORT AT REGENERATION. (By Cablo.—Press Association.—Copyright.* (AustiJian and N.Z. Cable (Reuter'e Telcgrama.) LONDON, July 13. The landing of a large Allied force on tho Murman coast represents an effort to reorgani.se Russia, assist the counter-revolutionaries and the Czecho-Slovaks to overthrow the Bolsheviks, and checkmate Germany's extensive annexation plans. The icefree ports of Murman provide the only means by which the European Allies can supply guns, ammunition, and war stores to the Russian forces. It is expected that Japanese and American supplies will be sent through Vladivostock, which is now in the possession of the Czecho-Slovaks, who defeated the Bolsheviks and disarmed the Russian warships in the harbour. There are 15,000 German troops in Finland, mostly in the south, and it will bo. difficult for them to reach Murman, as communications are bad, except by the railway, and the terrain is dilficult. The Lenin Government, whose headquarters are at_ Moscow', is protesting against the Allied landing, but it is unable to interfere. The Government controls only 60,000 troops, who aro of • poor quality and indifferently equipped. The most remarkable feature of the Russian situation is the position of the Czecho-Slovaks, many thousands of whom deserted from the Austrian army and fought with the Russians against the Austrians and Germans, , before the Russian front finally collapsed. Large bodies of Czecho-Slovaks then marched eastward, intending to reach Vladivostock and embark for America and fight with the Allies on the yestern front. These captured tho larger part of the Siberian railway, routed the SiberianBolsheviks, and now await Japanese intervention. Other bodies of Czecho-Slovaks remained in Eruopean Russia, where they defeated the Bolsheviks in the Samara district. Tlio Czecho-Slovaks now control 2500 miles of the main railway from Penza to Nijni-IJdinsk in Siberia, where they have established their own government. The Bolsheviks control a short stretch of the Siberian railway from NijniUdinsk. to Chita, the remainder to Vladivostock, being in the hands of the Czecho-Slovaks. The remarkable achievements of the Czecho-Slovaks, who are estimated at over a quarter of a million, have strengthened tho Allies' hands. The half-million German-Austrian troops on the eastern front are of second quality. German newspapers assert that it is impossible for the Allies to restore the Eastern front, thus compelling Ludendorff to withdraw divisions from France to fight reorganised Russian armies and Czecho-Slovaka. The utmost Germany anticipates is that the Allied efforts will result in M. Lenin's overthrow, and create a guerilla war again «t German troops, thus preventing Germany from exploiting the BrestcLitovsk treaty. STOCKHOLM, July 13. The Russian Social Revolutionaries' manifesto says they do not fear the Allied landing, and accept their aid. They are preparing to assist to reestablish the East front, but there must be no interference in international affairs.

is proceeding in all the country through which the Amur flows, while south of Irkutsk an interminable conflict continues. from which apparently no results likely to lead to stability seem possible. I>aily reports of factional victories, defeats, occupations, and abandonments fill the newspapers, signifying that anarchy reigns supreme. Whoever is victorious, such warfare cannot relievo the situation, but only prolong the sufferings of the populations occupying this vast region, while the enemy profit by tightening their grip on European Russia and poisoning tho simple Russians against the Allies.

i The manifesto urges that the necessity for overthrowing the Bolsheviks, who are carrying out German demands without protest, becomes daily more urgent. (Australian and N. 2. Cable Association.) (Received July 15thj 11.40 p.m.) ROTTERDAM, July 15. British troops have landed on the Murman coast. Daring the march south they occupied Eem. COPENHAGEN, July IS. A trainload of Bolsheviks arrived at Murman. Anti-Bolsheviks captured and disarmed them, and all of them were sent back to Moscow. LONDON, July 13. The Bolshevik rule is rapidly waning throughout Russia. The influence of M, Lenin's Government is almost confined to Moscow. Local bands of Bolsheviks, which are largely independent of Lenin, are governing other town districts. (United Service.) LONDON, July 13. General Falk Horvat has proclaimed himself Premier of Siberia. The Government's programme includes the restoration of the Allies' treaties, the re-establishment of the army, and the abolition of Bolshevik decrees. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) AMSTERDAM, July 14. The "Hamburger Fremdenblatt" states that the Russian Foreign Minister, speaking in the Soviet, declared that Russia could offer Japan favourable commercial treaties as a bribe against Japanese intervention in Siberia. TOKIO, July 14. Reports show that the Siberian situation has been transformed by the formation at Harbin of a strong anti-Bol-shevik Government, headed by General Horvat, chief of tne Chinese Eastern Railway, and supported by leading Cadets, Liberals, and ex-members of the Duma. I The new Government is assured of wide public support. (Renter*!) Telegrams.) AMSTERDAM, July 13. Advices from Kieff state that the Bolsheviks in Moscow f so far from supEressing the Revolutionaries, are only olding their own with the assistance of the Lettish Guards. M. Trotsky told the All-Russian Congress that a portion of the Soviet troops had deserted to the enemy, as a result of British and French propaganda. Count Mirbach's murderers have been shot. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received July loth, 8.10 p.m.) LONDON, July 14. "The Times'' Tokio correspondent, writing on July Bth, states that the : Czecho-Slovaks have occupied Nicho- | ; laievsk, driving out the Bolsheviks and j i their German supporters. Tha conflict ' _ ... -"to