COMING BACK.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1918, Page 2

COMING BACK.

IMPROVED RUSSIAN PROSPECT'S

(Received This Day at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, July 8,

Washington newspapers give promincnce to the week-end reports of the sensational series of events in Russia. It is believed that a'great crisis is rapidly approaching. Petrograd reports indicate that tho Ukraine revolt is growing. The bewgeoise are alarmed, because the Germans are withdrawing and refusing to give battle. Only thirty thousand troops are available in the Kieff region.. They are urgently demanding reinforcements. It is stated the total peasant troops number 200,000, whereof 75,000 ’'are well equipped and efficiently officered. They are advancing from Faster railway junction to Kieff. Forty miles north-cast, the communications between Kieff and Odessa nro cut. The Ukrainian Government has ordered the restitution of the land to the former owners, promising a complete scheme of agrarian reforms. THE CZECHO-SLOVAKS'. TAKING CHARGE IN SlßEßlA(Received This Dav at 9.50. a.m.) LONDON, July 8. The “Daily Express” Tokio correspondent reports that despite the Yladivistock Soviets, elaborate measures to resist the Czecho-Slovaks, the latter, under the young Russian, General Diterie, formerly General Dickhovitch’s Chief of Staff, easily dispossessed the Bolsheviks of their arms and ammunition. The Czecho-Slovaks in the Far East are cut off from their comrades in Western Siberia, but developments suggest they will soon jointly control the Trans-Siberinn railway. The Czechoslovak movement is entirely spontaneous, and may prove the rallying point for the Siberian party of order, and may lead to a natural and satisfactory solution of the problem. NORTH RUSSIA MOVE. COPENHAGEN, July Bth. The “Tidenstcgan” states the whole of tho Murman population have broken off Russia and joined the Entente. Provisions have arrived at. Murman from America. INTERVENTION AGREED UPON. (Received This Day at 9.50. a.m.) NEW YORK, July 6. It i* authoritively stated that the United States sends to Russia an economic mission, supported ,hv a police force of Inter-Allied troops, to establish order.