THE SIBERIAN FRONT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 286, 22 August 1918, Page 5

THE SIBERIAN FRONT

CZECHO-SLOVAK ADVANCE TROOP ! IN HOT FIGHTING TEMPORARY RETIREMENT - 1 POSSIBLE 'j Tientsin, August 20. The advanced Czech forces on the Usuri Elver front ore meeting with desperate resistance from the Germon-led i Bolsheviki, and have ))een compelled to ; retire towards the main body. A forco of Bolsheviki have appeared in tho rear ; of the Allied advanced posts on the' Usuri, and may cause a temporary retirement. ~' ,;,... ; Japanese naval forces have landed at ! Nikolaievsk to protect tho Japanese re- ' 6idcnts— Aus.-N.is. Cable Assn. ' CZECH OUTPOSTS DRIVEN IN. Vladivostok, August 20. A fierce fight-between the Czechs and tho Bolsheviki on tho Usuri River front ; resulted in the retirement of tho Czechs' outposts.—Reutor. f'rhe Usuri River is a tributary of tho Amur, and flows in a northerly direction from near Vladivostok.] JAPANESE MARINES ON THE AMUR, . Vladivostok, August 20. '■■ A contingent of. Japanese marines has \ disembarked on tho Amur for tho pro- j tectiou of the Japanese, there.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. , CHINESE TROOPS ON SIBERIAN H BORDER. .] New York, August 30. \ Tho United Press Agency at Washing- j ton states that official advices say that , ■: tho Chinese Government has 6ent a largo j number of troops to the Siberian border , , to prevent the invasion of Chineso terri- j tory by former German, Austrian, and Hungarian prisoners of war who havo > joined tfife Bolsheviki against the Czechoslovaks in the Trans-Baikal region.— j Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. , j CZECHOrSLOVAK NATIONAL PROGRAMME j BOHEMIA TO RISE FROM THE . j GRAVE. , j Washington, August 20. ! A manifesto issued by the Czechoslovak National Council at out- , lines the programme for the union of the i Czeoho-Slovaks into one nation. Bohemia is to rise again from the grave and take her pla'co among tho freo lands. The Czeoho newspapers counsel, patienco, as the German machine-guns are ready to suppress the movoment for ; Bohemian independence.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aesn.; ; austro-germaTpress uneasy BARGAINING OVER RUSSIAN ; SPOILS. Amsterdam, August 20. The Germ.™ and Austrian newspapers 'are very uneasy, and aro in doubt whether any real agreement was reached in the recent conference at the Gorman Headquarters. Tho newspapers in Vienna j indicate that Austria has not yet subniitted to the German demands. The Germans are trying to drivo a hard bar- ' gain, which the Government hesitate to : accept. i ' • i The "Lokal Anzeiger" (Berlin) states that it was decidod that Courland. Livonia, oa-.l l&thonia shall be joined to Prussia under a Prussian duke, prob- ; ably one of tho Kaiser's sons; and / Lithuania is to become a kingdom tinder ; Duke Urach (?), whilo the King of Fin- j land will probably be Duke Adolf Fried- \ erich of Mecklenburg. ' The "Vorwaerts" says the Polish,- question is still unsettled.-AXis.-N.Z. Cable \ Assn. PLOT RUMOURS IN MOSCOW London, August 20. The "Daily News" correspondent at Stockholm says that Moscow is full of rumours that a countei-revolutionary effort will be attempted about August 20 (yesterday). It is described as an officers plot. It is stated that many Monarchistsare Involved. Tho time is chosen to coincide with the period of greatest stapation. but the Soviet is extremely emcient in dealine with such plobv-Aue.-N.fl. ' : Cablo Assn. TERRIBLE FOOPIJOTS IN PETROGRAD j MOB ENCOUNTER WITH LETTISH . GUARDS. ;' London, August 20. Tho Amsterdam correspondent of "Tho ■ Times" says that reports from Berlin tell of terrible food riots in Petrograd. The ~ starved workers, after a procession, made > ; o, demonstration at tho Smolny Institute, shouting "Away with the Germans! Away with the Kremlin!" The demonstrators encountered Lettish Guards, and fieroo fighting followed, in which hundreds wore killed and- wounded on both sides.' Martial law wae\ proolelmed.- • "The Times." DON COSSACK APPEAL TO GERMANY FOR ASSISTANCE AGAINST THE '■ SOVIETS (Bee August 21, 7.18, p.m.) Copenhagen, August 20. The Duke of Louchtcnberg, formerly ; tho Tsar's adjutant, has arrived in Berlin with a lottor from the Cossack general Krasnow, to the Kaiser, asking . for assistance against the Soviet Govern- : ment. The Don Republic desires Germany to recogniso its indepondonoo. Tho German newspapers deprecate tho request, on the ground that tho time is inopportune to intervene in Russian in' ternal affairs.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.