CRISIS IN SIBERIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 287, 23 August 1918, Page 5

CRISIS IN SIBERIA

URGENT CALL FROM CZECHOSLOVAKS

ENEMY WELL EQUIPPED

(Rec. August 22, 10.45 p.m.) Tokio, August 21. The Japanese War Office publishes a message from the Czech loader stating that thirty thousand Austro-Gerinans, with seventy guns and many machineguns, confront eight thousand Czechs, with six guns. Ho urges the promptest rolief.-Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn.

SPEEDY HELP BEING SENT

(Rec. August 22, 10.-15 p.m.)

New York, August 21. The New York "Times" Washington'' correspondent statos: "It is intimated in official circles that assistance is being sent to tho Czechoslovaks in tho Baikal region, which will reach them in time to thwart the plans of iho German-Austrian prisoners and Bolshoviki. The Allies are sending tho Czecho-Slovaks large quantities of arms and ammunition and heavy artillery." The correspondent adds: Tho landing of Japaneso troops at Vladivostok, with General Otani as Commander-in-Chief of tho Allied forces is confirmed in nn official dispatch. Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BODY OF EX-TSAR EXHUMED REINTERMENT IN CONSECRATED GROUND. London, August 2.1. German •pjyjers sfcfito that tho Czechoslovak authorities oxhurned the body of the ex-Tsar, which was buried in tho cemetery for suicides, and solemnly reinterred it in consecrated ground, in tho presence of thousands of pcoplo in Ekaterinburg.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.