ON THE SIBERIAN FRONT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 288, 24 August 1918, Page 7

ON THE SIBERIAN FRONT

ENEMY'S STRENGTH NOW 80,000 DISPOSITION OF FORCES Tokio, August 22. The War Office announces that an enemy force eastward of Simacov now numbers eighty thousand. Tho enemy is arming rafts with machine-guns on tho Uaiiri River, and four enemy seiners on Lake Khanka are apparently intended to land men at Spossk, thirty miles from the Japanese front line, which will necessitate a. withdrawal by the Japanese right wing. There are about seventeen thousand of the enemy in the Amur area, eighty thousand in tlie Baikal area, and three thousand five hundred in the Urals—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. WHOLESALE ARRESTS OF OFFICERS DRASTIC ACTION BY SOVIET GOVERNMENT. Copenhagen. August 22. Tho "Frankfurt Gazette'' states that the Soviet Government has arrested fifteen thousand officers' at Moscow, who are held as hostages. Altogether about fifty, thousand officers have, been arrested throughout Russia. A great number of. tha upper classes in Moscow hayo also been arrested on the ground that it is necessary in order to_ suppress the counter-revolution.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn THE BOLSHEVIK DECLARATION OF WAR Washington, August 22. Owing to the Bolshevik declaration of war against the Allies, the United States has handed over to Norway America's diplomatic affairs in Petrograd — Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. . '"' '■'.. INJURIA BLOODTHIRSTY VENGEANCE BY. BOLSHEVIK! (Itec. August 24, 1.40 a.m.) " . ■ Amsterdam', August' 23. According to a German suurce, the Red Guards, upon capturing Simbirsk, publicly hanged in tuc- market place tniee hundred Czecho-Slovaks. Tho "Weser Zeitung" learns from Archangel that General Potupolf, Comof the Red Army ■ in Murman, was caught by peasants when lleemg and handed over to tho British — lttmter.