RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16266, 17 July 1918, Page 7

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

THE MURMAN LANDING. ENTIRE COAST OCCUPIED. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.} (Australian and N.Z. Cablo Associalipn.) LONDON, July 15. Americans have also tended on the Muriuan coast. „ , NEW YORK, July If. Tho American-British expedition has occupied tho entire Murman coast. POSITION IN SIBERIA. (Heuter's Telegrams.) AMSTERDAM, July 15. The Berlin "Tageblatt" announces: that the Czecho-Slovoks, despite the heaviest resistance by the Red Guards, have captured Kazan. It adds: "By | the occupation of this important railway and waterway junction, the Czecho-Slovaks have become masters of the Government of the Lower Volga. The newspapers state that the CzectiOSlovaks are utilising M. Trotsky's mobilisation in the Urals, on tho Volga, and in West Siberia for their own purposes, and are forming from recruits the socalled Black Guards, which are co-oper-ating with tho Czecho-Slovaks and other counter ievolutionary forces. (Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association-) TOKIO, July 15. General Howart, popularly known as the Uncrowned King of Manchuria, and a closo friend of General Alexieff when the latter was Viceroy of tho Far East, has formed a Cabinet, which includes the chief leaders of commerce, agriculture. and other establishments in Siberia. All the parties being interested, the new Cabinet thus offers a nucleus for Allied intervention, -which the new Government ardently desires 5 in order to rid Siberia of Bolshevik rule. But speedy action is essential, or tho Russians, in despair, may turn to the Germans.

CHINA AN3> RUSSIA. (Renter's Telegrams.) (Received July 16th, 7.20 p.m.) PEKING, July 15. The Inspector-General of Customs has denied the recently-cabled report that China is sending largo quantities of goods to Russia, which are likely to reach Germany. IN THE GRIP*OF CHOLERA. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received July 16th, 7.20 p.n.) STOCKHOLM, July 15. A steamer from Petrograd has arrived) with five cases of Asiatic cholera aboard. One sufferer has died. The authorities at Petrograd are making an effort to prevent tho spread of the disease. There are several hundred deaths daily. The greater part of Russia is in the grip of the disease.