CZECHO-SLOVAKS IN THE ASCENDANT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 261, 23 July 1918, Page 5

CZECHO-SLOVAKS IN THE ASCENDANT

THE OUTLOOK IN SIBERIA j PROGRESS OF WESTERN j MARCH . | London, July 20. -i Heuter's correspondent at Vladivostok I slates that 40,000 Czechoslovaks hold llio ! railway between Samara ami Irkutsk. ', Twelve thousand to .fourteen thousand j Czeclio-Slovaks. from Vladivostok • aro J lighting the Bolshevik! at Khabarovsk. | They occupied Spasskaia after a stub- • i born fight. They propose lo '.ink up with l tho Czecho-Slovaks from Irkutsk. There j aro 47,000 Dolshoviki and ex-prisoners bo- ! tweon Khabarovsk and Irkutsk—Router. • REPORTED CAPTURE OF BIRSK." Amsterdam, July 21. I A report from Moscow slates that tho j Czecho-Slovaks liavo eaptued Birsk.— Eeuler. ! A PURTHER ADVANCE. 1 (Rec. July 22, 9.55 p.m.) ! Peking, July 18. .; Czechoslovak forces have occupied . ! Klutshevsk, in tho south-west, of the \ Trans-Baikal region. The Bolsheviki ; arc now concentrating at Verh'emidihsfc \ Semenoff, an anti-Bolshevik leader, has occupied Sharasun,—Aus.-N.Z. Gable ; Assn. '•■ (Rec. July 22, 0.55 p.m.) j London, July 21. j A British-Italian official message says; —"We carried out three raids westward .! of Asingo, taking prisoner or destroying ; seventeen aircraft since July 16."—Aus.- j N.Z. Cable Assn.-Renler. \ BOLSHEVIKI CO-OPERATING WITH THE GERMANS ■ i EXPECTED OCCUPATION OP MOSCOW AND PETROGRAD. - ; Now York, July 19. , < j The United Press Agency's Stockholm j correspondent Btates that the Russian Press expects the German occupation of Moscow and Petrograd, due to the rapid I developments in' the Murman situation. Tho Bolshcviki aro co-operating with tho Germans and permitting them to travel northward by the Mumian railway through to Petrograd tnd Zvanko Junction. There is cholera in many cities besides Petrograd.— Aus.-N.Z. Cabl» Assn. MONARCHY OoisSIAN MODEL PROPOSAL FOR FINLAND WITHDRAWN. Copenhagen, July 21. A Bill establishing a Monarchy in Fin. land on tho Prussian model has been withdrawn, ns it failed to secure tho statutory majority in the Diet, although tho Government prevented many Socialist members from attending.—Aus.-N .&. Cable Assn.. - THE SHOOTOGOnHE EX-TSAR EX-TSARINA ANDSON REMOVED TO SAFETY. London, July 21. A. Russian official report states that the ex-Tsarina and her son have now been sent to a place of security, ,lhe central executive committee is in possession of important documents concerning the ex-Tsar's affair, including his and the ex-Tsarina's diaries, and his correspondence, among which arc letters from Rasputin to the ox-Tsar and the Royal I amilv Ml the papers will bo published stiortly.-Aus.-M. Cable Assn. • TO SATISFYIffIIAN SPITE BRATIANO GOVERNMENT TO BE PROSECUTED. Amsterdam, July 20. Tho Rumanian Chamber has decided to prosecute the Bratiano Government, thus _ yielding to Germany's demand to punish those Ministers who decided on Rumania's participation in tho war.-Heuler.