SITUATION IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 260, 22 July 1918, Page 5

SITUATION IN RUSSIA

ALLIED INTERVENTION IN SIBERIA I PRACTICALLY ARRANGED Tokio, July 19. The Cabinet, in response to the ove»tures from America, has decidcd in fa- ' Vonr of Japanese intervention in Siberia. ; ■-Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn. ' (Kec. July 21, 5.5 p.m.) ; London, July 19. • i Messages from Tokio confirm the re- > port that Allied intervention in 'Silwria ; has been practically arranged—Aus.-N.Z.. i Cable Assn. j CZECHOSLOVAKS CONTROL i IRKUTSK. ■ J . Peking, July 19. ■the Russian Legation announces that ; the Czecho-Stovaks are in entire control of Irkutsk.—Aus.-N.is. Cable Assn. j EX-TSAR NICHOLAS ' j AGAIN REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN i SHOT. ■ | (Rec. July 21, 5.5 p.m.) New York, July 20. ' A Russian wireless liiessago announces V that the ex-Tsar has been shot. . A later message states thai; tbo ex-Tsar j was _ shot because a counter-revolution, ; seeking to restore him to power, was being plotted.—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn. -j (R«c. July 21, 5.40 p.m.) [ New York, July 20 ,! When Ekaterinburg, the capital of the j Red Urals, was threatened recently by ; advancing Czeclio-Slovaks seeking to liberate tho ex-Tsar, tho President of' tho ! Ural Regional Council decided to 6hoot tho ex-Tsar. The decision was carried ! out on July 15. The Empress and her \ I son havo been placed iu safety—Aus.- ' ■ N.Z. Cable Assn. ; (Rec. July 21, 11.50 p.m.) j London, July 20. A wireless Russian official' message ; stales"The Central Executive Commit- j tee has made public a message from the : Ural Regional Council concerning tha shooting of tho ex-Tsar, which says that , Ekaterinburg was being seriously ..threatened by the approach of tho Czeclio- j Slovaks and simultaneously a counter- ; revolutionary'conspiracy to wrest tho «• ; Tsar from tho Council's authority "vas < discovered. Tho Ural Regional Counjil. therefore, decided to shoot-tho ex-Tear i Nicholas, which decision was enforced on July 16."—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.-Router. ON THE ITALIAN FRONT I FURTHER ADVANCE IN THE MOUNTAINS. (Rec. July 21, 11.50 p.m.)

London, July 20. An Italian official message states:' Our detachments at Mount Adamello (in the Western ' Trentino) captured Mount Stable, and completely reoccupied the ] Corno di Cavonta.'"—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn .-Renter.