THE WAR IN SIBERIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 295, 2 September 1918, Page 5

THE WAR IN SIBERIA

AN ENEMY ATTACK REPULSED STEADY ADVANCE BY THE ALLIES (Rec. August 81, 5.5 p.m.) New York, August 30. _ A United Press telegram from 'Vladivostok reports that Red Guards slid other enemy (forces attacked along the Usuri front. The Allies repulsed the attack, and more than four hundred of the enemy were The Americans did not take part in the fighting, the brunt of which fell upon the Japanese', who captured two armoured trains and several field guns. A report issued by the Japanese says that the Allies are steadily advancing. —Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn.. GERMANS AND BOLSHEViKI DEFEATED (Rec. September 1, 5.5 p.m.) Vladivostok, August El. The Germans and Bolsheviki have teen defeated on the Usuri. They suffered 5000 casualties. \ The Allies have occupied Iman.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RUSSIAN VOLUNTEER ARMY CAPTURE A BLACK SEA PORT. (Rec. September 1, 5.5 p.m.) New York, August 31. ' Th? "New York Herald's" Washington correspondent states that a Russian volunteer army is reported to lif.ve captured the Black Sen, port df Hovorossisk. It is believed in military eiicles to be a remnant of the Russian regular army, which was. disbanded after the Brest-Litovsk Treaty.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. PROTEST iIfNEJJTRALS AGAINST ARRESTS OF OFFICERS. (Rec. September 1, 5.5 p.m.) | Amstordam, August SO. ! A message from Kieff states that j neutral representatives protested to 1 the Soviet Government against tha ; mass arrests of officers at Moscow and | Petrograd, ' threatening to ' rescind i the right of Banctuary for Bolshevik | representatives abroad.—Reuter.

ATTEMPT TO TAKE LENIN'S LIFE (Rec. September 1, 5.5 p.m.) New York, August 31. It is reported that au attempt was made on Lenin's life before no left Moscow.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. London, August 81! A wireless official teport sates:—"As a result of an' attempt on his life at Moscow on August 30 Lenin was wounded." The communique gives no further details.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. . ~ LENIN SERIOUSLY WOUNDED. (Rec. September 1, 11.35 p.m.) London,. August 31. A wireless Russian' mesßkge'reports that Lenin was hit twice and was struck by a bullet in each shoulder. In one case tho lung is affected.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. anotherlsslssination COMMISSARY OF HOME AFFAIRB MURDERED. (Rec. September 2, 0.45 a.m.) Amsterdam, September 1. A Potrograd: message via Berlin states that the Commissary of Home Affairs, M. Unitski, has been assassinated. His murderers, have been arrested—Router. '