HE RUSSIAN MIX UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1918, Page 2

HE RUSSIAN MIX UP.

GERMANS AND POLES. (Reuter’s Telegram.) AMSTERDAM, June 27. The Lokal Anzioger states the Kieff negotiations by German and Polish military authorities have failed, the latter refusing to work with German troops, consequently the demobilisation of the first German corps continues.

NO INTERVENTION. ‘ (Reuter’s Telegram.) LONDON, June 26. Reuter has authoratively learned that it is untrue that a decision has been reached regarding intervention in Siberia. The position of the Bolshevik Government is daily becoming more difficult. Czechs and Slovaks have overturned the Bolsheviks everywhere in Siberia, except eastward of Tomsk, where the Bolsheviks with the help of Magyar and German prisoners havo beaten Semioff’s detachment across the Manchurian border. There are indications that the Germans may attempt to supersede Bolshevism by another form of Government under German control.

CHINESE ACTION. [PF.U PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON. Juno 26. The “Daily Mails” Harbyi correspondent states the Chinese Government has instructed the military Governors of Manchuria Provinces to hold their troops ready for action. The Germans are holding' largo supplies of cotton for transmission from Amur, when control of the railway is regained.

IN SIBERIA. AMSTERDAM, June 26. A Moscow telegram states flint the Czech-Slovac troops entered E'caterin burg. Heavy fighting is prow?T'ag. In connection with the above it is understood that the ex-Czar is at F.kat erinhurg; but there is no confirmation that he has been assassinated Throe thousand Germans have landed at ports near Batoum. It : s believed this is the first, stop to compete occu pation of the Caucasus. R,E VOLUTIONARIES’ ~IfESSAGE. (Received This Day at 9.25 a.m.p STOCKHOLM, June 27.

The Delegation of the Russian Social Revolutionaries sent greetings to. the British Labour Conference, declaring the liquidation of the Bolshevik Government must precede Russia’s revival, and the shameful Brest-Litovsk peace must be abrogated. They hope the British Conference will be followed by the convocation of an International Socialist Conference, which will gi vo humanity the desired democratic peace.