THE HESSIAN MIX UP

Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1918, Page 4

THE HESSIAN MIX UP

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ACT OF WAR. AMSTERDAM. July 26. The “ Lokal Anzieger ” states the Moscow Government regards the Entente landing at-Murman as an act 1 of war.

UKRAINE REVOLT. PARIS, Juiy 2(5. A peasant revolt on A' large a ! e has commenced in the Ukraine. It is a well officered asd organised loree ot 75,000 men. It has forced the German detachments to fall hack upon Kiel.

CZECH 0-fSLOVAKS’ SUCCESS. MOSCOW. July 215

It is officially reported that the (V.oeho-Slovaks. after a desperate resistance, captured Simbirsk. The Soviet Army has abandoned the left bank of the Volga. . . The Soviets newspaper “I ravila declares that the new revolt is spreading like an epidemic.. Simbirsk’s fall increases the danger. The frnemy arcnumerous and well-organised.

BOLSHEVIK CONFESSION. AMSTERDAM. July 2(5 th. Lenin, the Rolshevilc leader, in the course of a speech at Moscow, said that the position of the Russian Republic was now acute. This was owing to tne international complications existing, it was easv, he said, for Russia to begin her revolution, but it was extraordinarily difficult to continue or conclude it He adds that united action by the workers of the entire world was essential to the victory of the Russian Revolution.

THREE TJKAND DUKES. AMSTERDAM, July *2O. \n unknown hand entered the yen den eg at) Ekiderniburg where three Grand Dukes. Tgoivoiistantme, Ivor-Con Stamiiovitoh, and Sengemielmelo were living, and carried them otf.

EN-TSAR’S FAMILY. AMSTERDAM. July 27. According to Moscow papers the e*.Tsar’s family is' safe in a monastery m Siberia.

JAPAN WILL ASSIST.

(Reuter’s Telegram.) LONDON. July 2(5

It lias now been officially confirmed that Japan has decided to accept the American proposal to assist the C/.ocho Slovaks in Siberia, COSSACK LEADER RUSHED.

LONDON, July 2(5. Reports from Siberia state that the Cossack leader, Hardin Sominoff, has boon compelled by the Bolsheviks to fall hack' into Manchuria. His left flank is now inside the Chinese border.

PROGRESS OF THE CZECHS. LONDON, July 26th

The C-techs have considerably progressed from Vladivostok, and >»'<■ trying to join hands with the Czechs in .the < west.. The former have advanced twenty-seven miles from Xokolsk. The forces uruler Semeiiof! have retired into Manchuria, before a strong Bolshevik force. The hitter did not attempt t-> follow.

FOOD FOR RUSSIA’S NEEDS. WASHINGTON July 27, The State Department advises that there /is instill.eioit rood .supolv !oi the Russian needs. Germany is deu ar.ding !a.,go quantities from Russia and the position is acute .

JAPS IN SIBERIA

|" “H K 1 !TEP.’S” TKIiFOit a.u.] (Received Yesterday at 11.10. p.m.) PARTS, July 27.

flu* “Relit Pari.-ieii ’’ states .Japanese detachments were landed at Vladivostock weeks ago, and aj'o co-operating with CV.eeho-Slovaks north of Nikolsroossurisk.