THE ADVANCE IN SIBERIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 303, 11 September 1918, Page 5

THE ADVANCE IN SIBERIA

SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS BY ,y, ; JAPANESE CAVALRY ,V ; ;',' THE RED TERROR IN RUSSIA New York, September 9. The United Press Agency's correspondent at Shanghai states that, according to reports from Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, in Siberia, has been captured by Japanese troops. Tho United Press Agency at Vladivostok states that' Japanese cavalry havo'occupied Iman, on the Uauri front, at tho junction of the Usuri and Mm Iman. General Senicnoff, on' tho Manchurian (front, has reached the fortifications of Borgia on the trans-Siber-!an railway, south-east of Tchita. The Japanese cavalry assisting Semenoff ha s taken prisoner a hundred of the enuny." The correspondent adds that advices from Harbin state that Bolshevik troops destroyed the trans-Siberian railway- west of Doura— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. IMPORTANT CAPTURE REPORTED. (Rec. September 10, 7.55 p.m.) ■ Poking, September flit is reported that the Czechs have captured Chita, which is exceedingly important, siuce the Bolshevik troops had fortified it. Evidently the presence of the Japanese is Ibeing felt. Semenolf is damaging the enemy's moral. Tho Czechs have taken possession otf the greater part of the transSiberian railway.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE RED TERROR IN RUSSIA A SATURNALIA OF ' "REPRISALS" [ Amsterdam, September 9. It is officially announced from Petrograd that 512 people have been shot as reprisals for the murder of Uritzki, while 121 names of hostages have been published as to be shot in case of any frjsh attempt. The list includes five Grand Dukes, two of Kerensky's Ministers, and pioirinent ex-officers. It is stated that thirty-four big landowners and also .the ex-Archimandrite of Moscow were shot at Smolensk' as a reprisal for the attack on Lenin. ter. STERN WARNING TO TERRORIST GOVERNMENT. Washington, September 9. The State Department has received official advices saying that an Allied Power, through its Ministers in Holland, Denmark, Switzerland, and Norway,'has 'notified the Bolshevik authorities in Moscow that they will be held personally respousiblo for the safety of tho Allied Consular officers and the Mission now in Russia. A Note has been presented to M. Tchitcherin, vigorously protesting against his latest action in connection with tho proposed arrangements for the departure of the Consuls and Mis-sions.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION OF ARRESTS (Rec. September 10, 9.35 p.m.) Washington, September 9. The State Department lias, received from Stockholm an official confirmation of tho arrests of all tho French and British Consular and other officials in Russia by tho Bolsheviki.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. NEWS YERY GRAVE TERRIBLE PLIGHT OF THE BOURGEOISIE. (Reo. September 10, 10.35 p.m.) London, September 10. The "Daily Chronicle's." Stockholm correspondent states that the latest Bolshevik papers are filled with sanguinary articles, appeals, and resolutions demanding mass terrorism against the bourgeoisie in revenge for the attempts on Lonin and Uritzky. The general watchword is "individual terrorism I" Tho Petrograd commune has decided to begin tho extermination of tho bourgeoisie. The "Krasnaya Gazette" demands pitiless vengeance on tho Social Revolutionaries, and adds:—''The laws and tribunals of justice aro not needed to make blood flow. The day following the outrages at Petrograd the Soviet Government increased the wages of the Soviet Guards to £50 per month, plus food. They arethe only persons receiving full subsistence. The people have had no bread for several days, and vory littlo meat.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.. A GHASTLY PICTURE . (Rec. September 11, 0.15 a.m.) London, September 10. Mr. Ransorae, writing from Stockholm, 6ays;—"To-day's news from Russia illustrates with terrible clearness the present position of tho Soviet Government. It shows that tho Soviot revolution is being slowly but surely tortured to death by starvation. The peasant uprising at Nijninovgorod and Tula, and the anti-Soviet Assembly at Moscow do not signify conscious patriotic revolts. Thoy. are rather the terrific blind gestures of a starving revolution, tearing at its own flesh. Starvation in the towns accentuates the conflict between town and country. Discontent angrily demands food and peace, seeking any change, thouglino change can possibly remove starvation immediately. So men grow desperate, Death struts, in tlie streets openly until it has noiv lost its ter-rors."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FINNS SEEK TO EVADE GERMAN , CONSCRIPTION (lice. September 11, 1.15 a.m.) Copenhagen, September 10. Large numbers of Finlanders aro arriving in. Sweden to escape the German conscription under which the Finlanders will bo forced to ,servo in the Murinan enmpnign.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. 1