ME RISSIAN MIX UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1918, Page 2

ME RISSIAN MIX UP.

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GERMANY’S DEMANDS. LONDON, July 9. The “Daily Express” Stockholm correspondent learns from an authoritative source that Germany will demand te right to police Moscow, and Petrograd; also the passage of Germans to Murinan, via Petrograd. REVOLT NEWS. (Reuter’s Telegram.)

MOSCOW, July 9th. Hnihvaynien refused to strike as re-I quested bv the Socialists, on the eve! of tlie revolt. The leaders arrestod Spiritoria, who confessed that Mir bach was murdered by terrorists, members of the party, in order to provoke the annulment of the Brest- Litovsk Tren ty. Humours of a revolution in Petroc;rad and Jnroslav are denied by the Government. ,

A CEB.MAX REPORT

AMSTERDAM, July 9

The “Cologne Gazette” reports a distinguished German who lias returned .from the Far East, describes the (V.echo-Slovnks as a splendid force. The power of the Bolsheviks everywhere is waning and it no longer exists in 'Siberia.

TOKIO, July 9th. A dispatch from Vladivostok states furious artillery firing and street fighting preceded the overthrow of the Soviet. A ‘ Bolshevik steamer received many shots, but escaped in a crippled condition.

RESIGNED

AMSTERDAM, July 9. The Ukraine Government has resigned.

ALLIED ACTION DEMANDED

LONDON, July 9,

The newspapers accept reservedly the Bolsheviks’ statement that the counterrevolution has been suppressed. Sunday’s reports, the latest received are not supporting this. The newspapers demand decisive Allied action.

TAKING REFUGE

AMSTERDAM, July 9

According to Holland’s Nows Bureau, both Lenin, and Trotsky have taken refuge in Kremlin, from the Social Revolutionaries. It is also said the soldiers are guarding all the streets leading to the Kremlin against the Revolutionaries.

The Social Revolutionaries are said to have arrested the. Moscow prefect.

COUNTRY IN FERMENT.

Reuter’s Telegrams »

LONDON, July 9.

Telegrams from Russia, mostly coming from Berlin are scrappy and hazy. Apparently the whole country is in a ferincut. There has been further fighting with the Cossacks in Don. The situation at Moscow is obscure. The Bolsheviks are terrified at possible German reprisals for the murder of Mirbach. The Bolsheviks continue to make wholesale arrests of leaders of parties who are opposing their reign. THE CZECHOSLOVAKS. VLADIYOSTOCK, July 9. The Czocho- Slovaks under General Dietfriths, *> after disarming the Bolsheviks here, moved westward, nnd encountered near Nicholaicvsk, a large force of Austro-Gennans prisoners and Bolshevik troops. A battle resulted in a heavy enemy defeat. General Dietrichs occupied Nicholaievsk and disarmed the population. -

A NEW REGIME.. „

RESTORATION OF SIBERIA

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(Received, This Dav nt 8.50. a I ?; ) TOKIO, July 10.

Tile Czecho-Slovaks aim is * now Provisional Govcrument m Siberia to.lio established at Vladivostok ana convocation of the assembly, and the restoration of law and order. «he Hag is two stripes of white and green representing snow-clad plains and ver dure of the mighty forests. The programme includes the liberation of Siberia from Bolsheviks, avoiding if possible, foreign intervention, the establishment of provincial council, a labour bureaux, distribution of land, control of economic activities and universal suffrage. It will. be the first democratic state in Russian history, and the forerunner of the regeneration of Great Russia. Government will continue to fight the Central Powers. The people, to a man, are supporting the new regime.