THE SITUATION IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 257, 18 July 1918, Page 5

THE SITUATION IN RUSSIA

COMPLICATIONS IN SIBERIA ALLIES ADVISE HORVAT TO DESIST Peking, July 11!. > The Allied Ministers have advised M. . Falk Hurvat (the head of the new (.lov- : eminent set up in Siberia) to dissolve Ji is Government and retire from tho ' field. Tho Czecbo-Slovaks oppose Ilorvat's movement towards Vladivostok. Tho position is most complicated.—Aus.- ' N.Z. Cable Assn. HORVAHOMIATORY CZECIIO-SLOVAJv MARCH TO THE 1 BALKANS. (Ilec. July 17, 5.5 p.m.) ' Peking, July IG. As tho result of a friendly conference, M. Horvat has agreed to facilitate llio advance of tho CV.echo-Slovaks to tho Balkans, via the Chinese Eastern railway, with n view to their ultimate cooperation -with their compatriots. It is expected that the Austrian war prisoners in Serbia,will join tho Czechs, and largely increase the main lighting force. ] The "Times" says that a trustworthy eslimnto ' places tho Czecho-Slovak strength at eighty thousand in Siberia and thirty thousand in European Russia. They intend to reach the French front via Vladivostok.—Renter. THE BRITISH LANDING ON THE MMAN_COAST BOLSHEVIK MINISTER DEMANDS WITHDRAWAL.. Amsterdam, Julv Hi. M. Tcbitcherin, the Bolshevik Foreign Minister, has dciuaudcd that. Britainshall withdraw her troops from the Murman roast.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MOSCOW RISING CRUSHED BY UNHOLY : ALLIANCE THE GERMAN-BOLSHEVIK MENACE. (Rec. July 17, 5.25 p.m.) Washington, July 16. The Russian Embassy has made a statement to tho effect that the Moscow uprising had been crushed by a combination of German and Bolshevik arms. It was a manifestation of Russian national feeling, which tho Germans and Bolsheviki will crush unless Allied aid be sent. Tho Embassy declared that the crushing of the Moscow uprising would endanger the entiro Czecho-Slovak revolt. In referenco to von Mirbach's machinations, the Embassy says: "He entertained the most cordial relations with tho Bolsheviki, flooded the country with deliberate misinformations, simultaneously attempted to induce tho Moderates to' accept German military help to overthrow tho Bolsheviki, and promised reconsideration of tho Brest-Litovsk treaty "—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.