SEMINOFF'S MARCH TO THE WEST

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 202, 15 May 1918, Page 5

SEMINOFF'S MARCH TO THE WEST

THE NEW REVOLUTION IN SIBERIA

POPULAR FEELING IN FAVOUR

London, May 13. Renter's Harbin correspondent reports that General Sominoff has issued a communique stating that he has restored tho bridge over the Onon Bivor, which ho has crossed, and has occupied Adriannvsk. He continues to meot with popular sympathy. .He has issued a proclamation assuring tho peoplo of the Trans-Baik.il that his movements aro not countor-rcvo-lutionary, but are intended to restore lawful freedom. Many Russian soldiers from Sibera who have joined Seminoff stato that tho situation in Eussia is becoming favourable to the' movement, owing to tho general discontent with tho despotism of the Bolsheviks.—Renter. ELEVENTH-HOUR STROKE RUSSIA MAY YET BE IN AT THE DEATH. Washington, May 13. In an interview with tho Tjjiited Press Association correspondent in Washington, Thomas Masarik. a Bohemian leader, of education, who has arrived from Russia, said that Russia was preparing to strike against Germany in the closing days of the war. The Czechs and Slovenes were organising nn army.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. A COUNTER-REVOLUTION ? LENIN BECOMING UNEASY, Moscow, Mny 13. Lenin has telegraphed to tho food organisations demanding immediate holp in view of the catastrophic position in Petrograd. _ Ho says that a counter-revo-lution is raising its head and turninc the discontent of tho starving masses against tho Soviet authority.—Router. LENIN ESTABLISHING A REGULAR ARMY. Christiania, May 12. Tho Finnish Minister Enckell, who has arrived nt Hclsinrfora from Petrograd, elates that Lenin is establishing a regular army, and trying to build ud tho finance on a broader basis;—"Tho Times." THKEATENED GERMAN OCCUPATION. Petroiirad, Mar 13. Tha Labour Commune denies tho reports of the threatened occupation of Petrograd and Moscow.—"The Times." GERMAN DIVISIONS IN THE UKRAINE. (Rec. May 14, 9.30 p.m.) Amsterdam, May 13. _ The Gorman newspapers nro complaining regarding the largo number of divisions to maintain peace in tho Ukraine.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE ROMANOFFS' DWINDLING ESTATES GERMANS SEIZE .CRIMEAN PORTION. (Rec. May 11, 8.30 p.m.) Amsterdam/ May 13, Tho Germans havo confiscated all tho property belonging to tho Romanoifs in the Crimea, including tho Empress Dowager's castle of Duelber, near faebastopol, leaving tho Empress only hor private, apartments. German guards stand before tho castle.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RUSSIAN GRAND DUKES IN GERMAN HANDS. (Ree. May 14, 9.30 p.m.) Amsterdam, May 13. German newspapers stato that the Dowager Empress' of Russia and the Grand Dtikos Nicholas and Alexander ore now in German hands.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.