MIXED RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1918, Page 3

MIXED RUSSIA.

CZECHOSLOVAK RULE

fAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION]

(Received This Day at 9.2© a.m.)

LONDON, July 13. j Bolshevik rule is rapidly waning throughout Russia.- 'The influence of Lenin’s Government is almost confined to Moscow. A local band of Bolshevik which is largely independent of Lenin, j is governing other towns and districts, j A most remarkable feature of the Russian situation is the Czecho-Slo-vaks, many thousands of whom had deserted from the Austrian army, to fight with the Russians on the front against the Austro-Gormans, before the Russian front finally collapsed. Large bodies of Czeeho-Slovaks then | marched eastward intending to reach Vladivostoek and embark for America to fight with the Allies on the western front. These have captured the larger part of Siberian railways and routed the Siberian Bolsheviks, and now await Japanese intervention. Other bodies of Czeeho-Slovaks remain in European Russia, and have defeated the Bolsheviks in Samara district. Czeeho-Slovaks now control 2,500

j miles of main railway from Pen.za to J Nijni Udinsk in Siberia, where they' j established their own Government. Boljj sheviks control a short stretch of the j Siberian railway from Nijni Udinsk. j being in the hands of theCzecho-Slov- | nfcs- • . . | The remarkable achievements of the j Czeeho-Slovaks who are estimated at j over a quarter of a million has streng-

thened the Allies hands, jj Tlie half million Germans-Austrian j troops on the eastern front are of see- ! ondarv quality. German newspapers • assert it is impossible for the Allies jto restore the eastern front thereby compelling General Ludendorff to withdraw divisions from Franco to fight the re-organised Russian armies and the Czeeho-Slovaks. Tho utmost Germany anticipates is that the Allied efforts will result in Lenin’s overthrow and the creation of guerilla war against German troops, to prevent Germany exploiting the Brest Litovsk treaty.

A MANIFESTO.

(Received This l)ay, at 9.25 a.m.) * STOCKHOLM, July 13.

i The Russian Social Revolutionaries in j a manifesto, says: We do not fear the ' Allied landing, and accept their aid, in preparing to assist to re-establish the ! east front. There must be no interference in international nflairs. The manifesto urges the necessity of overthrowing the Bolsheviks who aro carrying out the German demands without) protest. It becomes daily moi© urgent. TURNED BACK. (Received This Dav at 11.25. a.r v.) COPENT.TAGEN, July 13. A trainload of Bolshiviks have arrived at Murman, but anti-Bolsheviks captured and disarmed them. All were sent back to Moscow. SIBERIA’S PREMIER. (Received This Day at P. 50, a.m.) LONDON, July 13 Falk Hovat has proclaimed himself Premier of Siberia. The Government’s programme include the restoration of the Allies’ treaties, the re-establish-ment of the army, and the abolition of Bolshevik decrees. THE MURMAN LANDING.

Received, this dav at 8 45 a.m. LONDON, July 13.

The landing of a large Allied force on the Murman coast represents an effort to reorganise the Russians and assist the counter revolutionaries and Czecho-Slovaks to overthrow the Bolsheviks and checkmate Germany’s extensive annexation- plans. The ice free ports at Murman provide the only means by which the European Allies can supply guns and ammunition and war stores to the Russian forces. It is expected that Japanese and American supplies will be fjent tlirough Vladivostock, which is now in the possession of the Czechoslovaks, who had defeated the Bolsheviks, and disarmed the Russian warships in harbour. Fifteen thousand German troops nro in Finland, mostly in tho south. It is difficult for thorn to reach Murman, as tho communications are bad, except by railway and the terrain is difficult. Lenin’s Government, whose headquarters aro at Moscow, arc protesting at the*Allied landing, but aro unable to Government (controls ouly sixty thousand troops of poor quality and indifferently equipped.

MIRBACH’S MURDER, (Received This Day at 11.15 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, July 14. Count Mir.baeh’s murderers shot him. ®