THE OUTLOOK IN SIBERIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 290, 27 August 1918, Page 5

THE OUTLOOK IN SIBERIA

WHOLE REGION CONTROLLED BY ANTI-BOLSHEVIK FORCES THE WITHDRAWAL ON THE USURI Washington, August 25. According t<) the. information which is reaching official circles, virtually all Siberia is now controlled by anti-Bol-shevik forces. Irkutsk is the only important point in the hands of the enemy. The State Department is advised that a new Government exists at Omsk, similar k> that formed at Vladivostok. Harmony prevails between these, two Government?, which will co-operate-with the Allies against the Bolsheviki and Prussians.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE CZECH WITHDRAWAL ON THE USURL ' t London, August 24. Router's Agciifcj , learns that the, Czecho-Slovak withdrawal on the Usuri front does not affect their communication's and is not regarded as a serious check. Moreover, it is reported to-day that the. Czechs have captured Verkhneudinskj an important centre commanding tho railway tunnels south of Lake Baikal.—Renter. THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION A RIE3 IN MOSCOW. (Rec. August 27, 0.30 a.m.) Copenhagen, August 20. The. Petrograd Telegraph Agency states that the counter-revolutionists at Moscow have- aimed at tho occupation of the highest points in the neighbourhood of tho city, from which Bombs were to be- dropped on the Kremlin. Tho leaders , were arrested and six were shot.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable A6SII. NEIY UNION ToImERATE GREAT RUSSIA A GERMAN REPOET. (Rec. August 27, 0.30 a.m.) Zurich, August 25. The "Lokal-AnzeigeiV Moscow correspondent states that the \ Cadets and the popular Socialist Revolutionaries of the Right and the Minimalists have formed a nnioii to , regenerate Great Russia, excluding Poland and the Baltic provinces. Boris Samelkoff has been nominated as dictator, with General Alexieff's support. The union will not recognise the Bre-st-Litovsk Treaty, and proposes to continue the war against the Central Powers<»-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . GERMAN GRAND DUKE FOR FINNISH THRONE Amsterdam, August 24. German papers state that the Grand Duke Adolf of Mecklenburg has accepted the throne of 'Finland, offered by a Finnish deputation now in Berlin.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FAMINE ANB_ PESTILENCE WHOLE VILLAGES DYING OUT.

Amsterdam, August 24. Besides cholera and famine, typhus is now raging in Petrograd and in the northern Russian provinces. The populations of whole villages are dying out for the want of bread. Practically all railway communication to Moscow is out off, owing partly to the passive resistance of the ra'ilwaymen and tho coun-ter-revolutionaries, who have hlown up numerous bridges.—Router.