THE SIBERIAN WAR

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 293, 30 August 1918, Page 5

THE SIBERIAN WAR

GENERAL ADVANCE BY THE ALLIES BOLSHEVIK FORCES RETIRING London, August 2?. A message from Vladivostok, dated 24th, says that a general advance of all the Allied forces lias begun on the Usuri front. Tho Bolshevilti have retired six miles. American and Japanese forces are entraining for Usuri.— Reuter. REACTIONISTS NOT WANTED IN FINLAND GERMAN GRAND DUKE NOMINEE FOR THRONE REJECTED. Amsterdam, August 28. Finnish opposition to the Grand Duke Adolf of Mecklenburg as King of Finland has resulted in the vetoing of tho proposal. Tho Finns want a Constitutional King, not a! member of tho world's reactionist family.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ATROCITmS~IN~ FINLAND TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE SHOT BY THE WHITE GUARDS. (Rec. August 29, 7.30 p.m.) Stockholm, August 28. A prominent Finnish Socialist states that the White Guards in Finland recently shot ten thousand people, many of whom were innocent, and imprisoned twenty thousand others. Tho proposal for a monarchy has passed the Landtag hy seven votes, tho majority being engineered by the exclusion of the opponents. A great number of Labour members of the Landtag have heen illegally impris-oned.—Aus'.-N.Z. Cable .rAssn. BOLSHEVIK RIVERFLOTILIA DISPERSED (Rec. August 29, 7.30 p.m.) Archangel, August 28. The Allies have dispersed the Bolshevik river flotilla.—Router. TUP CIDUDHW D1177F1? BEYOND BRITISH OFFICIAL COMPREHENSION,. (Rec. August 29, 7.30 p.m.) London, August 28. Tho situation in Siberia, by the intervention of Horvat and its probable effects, complotely puzzlos' official quarters in London, whore it is said that the position is so complex and confused that nobody understands it. All tho official nows comes from Tokio, where the authorities are most reticent.— Router.-