BOLSHEVIK RUSSIA DECLARES WAR ON THE ALLIES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 281, 16 August 1918, Page 5

BOLSHEVIK RUSSIA DECLARES WAR ON THE ALLIES

AN OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT GERMANS MARCHING TO PETROGRAD (Press Association Extraordinary.) (Rec. August 15, 4.55 p.m.) Washington, August 14. It is officially announced that Lenin (tho Bolshevik leader) has declared that Russia is at war with tho Allies.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. GERMAN'S ON THE WAY TO PETROGRAD. j Helsingfors, August 14. German troops are Marching on Petrograd.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. BOLSHEVIK DICTATORSHIP APPOINTED CZEOHO-SLOVAK SUPPLY SHIPS SEIZED. Amsterdam, August 14. Tho Sonets seized,all Czechoslovak vessels in the Volga, cutting off tho Czeeho-Slovaks from t'heir headquarters at Simbirsk, A battlo is raging in tho Middle Volga. Tho Soviet army numbers 150,000. German papers stato that the Soviets' General Executive Committee has appointed a dictatorship, consisting of Lenin, Trotsky,, and Binovieff, who are empowered to take all measures to crush the enemies.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. SERIOUS PLIGHT OF SIBERIAN CZECHOSLOVAKS z " (Rec, August 16, 0.55 a.m.) Vladivostok, August 15. The Czecho-Slovaks in Siberia aro m «a dangerous position, and liablo to bo cut off. The force is distributed over throo thousand miles of railway from tho Volga to Lake Baikal, and is largely unarmed and deficient in equipment, clothing, artillery, and ammunition. The whole region is cut off from the Far East. The Czechs hero aro pathetically anxious to help their compartiots, and contemplate fighting their way from tho Manchurian frontior to Baikal. They are poorly equipped, and. likely to meot with disaster unless tho presenco of tho Allied troops disheartens tho Bolshevist and Austro-German prisoner forces. Tho Czechs desire to relieve their compatriots before the Siberian winter. This will fco impossible without Allied co-operation bn a larger scale than has been arranged. Bridges ahead have been broken and rolling stock removed. The enemy is busily enforcing the enlistment of the local population, while prisoners are liberally mixed with all tho units, and Gorman officers are in command.—Tho Times." GERMANS CONSCRIPTING RUSSIANS i (Roc. August 16, 1.20 a.m.) Vladivostok, August 15. The Germans have commenced tho conscripting Russians from 18 to 45, and aro trying and shooting those who r;?fu6o to mobilise. Conscripted units will be officerea by Germans. —United Service. GERMAN PRF -S PESSIMISM SITUATION GRAVER "HAN IS SUPPOSED, (Rec. August :5-16, midnight.) Amsterdam, August U. Tho Pan-Ciocman journal "hreuz Zc .ung" warns its readers that the situation in tho East is graver than is supr od, and that it cannot bo long before Another liastern front exists, The journal i-lanies England for creating this now P.cril. ' , Tho influential "Cologne Gazette' no'cits, that pessimism abounds, and exhorts tho peoplo to emulate the spirit ol the peoplo of Franco, who. ill spito of thoir sufferings and sacrifices, only talk of victory,—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CZEOHO-SLOVAK DISSATISFACTION EXCITES AUSTRIA, (Rec. August IG, 1,20 a.m.) . , • i - - , , ' Berne, August 15. The Austrian Government is scriousl v alarmed at the rapid spread of CzcchoBlovian disaffection, and is endeavourin rigorously to repress it by numerous arrests and shootings,—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. .