WESTERN MARCH OF THE CZECHOSLOVAKS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 256, 17 July 1918, Page 5

WESTERN MARCH OF THE CZECHOSLOVAKS

CAPTURE OF KAZAN MASTERS OF THE LOWER VOLGA Amsterdam, July 15. The Tageblatt announces that the Czecho-Slovaks, in epito of the heaviest resistance by tho Bed Guards, have captured Kazan (on the Volga, duo cast of Moscow). ' The paper adds that, by tho occupation of this important railway and waterway junction, the Czecho-Slovaks become masters of tho district of the lower Volga.—Renter. "BLACK GUARDS" RECRUITED BY THE CZECHO-SLOVAKS. Amsterdam, July 15. 1 The newspapers state that the Czecho-Slovaks aro utilising Trotsky's process of 1 mobilisation in tho Urals, on the Volga, and in Western Siberia for their "own 1 purposes, and are forming from tho recruits so-called "Black Guards," which are 1 co-operating with the Czecho-Slovaks'and other counter-revolutionary forces — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE DEFENCE OF THE MURMAN COAST I 1 1 AMERICAN TROOPS LANDED. < i London, July 15. ' American troops have also landed on the Murman coast.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo ! Assn. i The American-British expedition has occupied the wholo of tho Murman c coast.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. 1 1 ] "UNCROWNED KING OF MANCHURIA" j THE NEW PREMIER OF SIBERIA. Tokio, July 15. M. Talk Horwart, tho new Premier of Siberia, is popularly known as the "Uncrowned King of Manchuria." Ho was a close friend of General Alesieff when the latter was Viceroy in the Far East.- The now Cabinet includes the chief leaders of commerce, agriculture, and. other stable elements in Siberia, of all parties, and thus offers a nucleus for Allied intervention. The now Government ardently desires intervention, in order to rid Siberia of Bolshevism, but speedy notion is essential, or the Russians, in despair, may turn to tho Germans.—AusfN.Z. Cable Assn. CHINESE GOODS FOR RUSSIA—A DENIAL. (Rec. July 16, 7.20 p.m.) Peking, July 15. The Inspector-General of Customs denies that ho recently cabled a report that China was sending largo quantities of goods to Russia which wero likely to reach Gormany.—Reuter. t E IN THE GRIP OF ASIATIC CHOLERA 3 r - I • NEW TERROR IN RUSSIA. t f (Rec. July 16, 7.20 p.m.) • I Stockholm, July 15. * A steamer from Petrograd has arrived with fivo cases of Asiatic cholera on i board. Ono died. Tho authorities at Petrograd are making art effort to prevent tho spread of tho epidemic. Thero are several hundred deaths daily. The greater part of Russia is in tho grip of the disease.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. 1