THE OUTLOOK IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 275, 9 August 1918, Page 5

THE OUTLOOK IN RUSSIA

BRITISH LANDING AT VLADIVOSTOK

AMERICA'S PART IN SIBERIA '

New York, August 7. British troops have landed nt Vladi-vostok—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. • PHILIPPINE TROOPS FOR SIBERIA (Rcc. August 9, 0.45 a.m.) Washington, August 8; General March (United States Chief of Staff) has announced that Philippine troops will bo the first to be dispatched to Siberia. There is no intention of establishing a new Eastern front against Germany.—Router. BOLSHEVIK COMMUNICATION WITH BRITAIN SUSPENDED. (Rcc. August 8, 5.5 p.m.) Washington, August 7. Swedish reports stato that the Bolshoviki havo suspended private communication between Russia and Britain,— Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. CZECHO-SLOVAK ASCENDANCY IN THE UKRAINE A REPORT TO THE AMERICAN COUNCIL. . (Rcc. August 8, 7.45 p.m.) > 'Washington, August 7. Captain Huryan, reporting to the-Czocho-Slovak National Council here, btates that the Czechs defeated the Germans in the fighting in tho Ukraine. After the Brest-Litovsk Treaty was signed tho Austrian Emperor offered them an amnesty, but they refused to surrender. After escaping from the Ukraino they at first maintained friendly relations with the Bolshoviki, but later were compelled to fight them at Irkutsk. Thousands of Bolsheviki surrounded a Czsch train, firing machine-guns. Four hundred Czechs leaped from_ tho train and put the entire Bolsheviki force to flight—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.

THE CZECHOSLOVAK SETBACK IK MANCHURIA. Shanghai, August 7.' The Czecho-Slovaka on tho Usurri front are falling back. Austro-Gorman reinforcements are arriving on the Manchurian and Mkolsk fronts.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn..