THE RUSSIAN MIX UP

Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1918, Page 3

THE RUSSIAN MIX UP

[per PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.; JAPANESE TROOPS LAND. NEW YORK, August 18 A Vladivostock correspondent states that Japanese troops have landed and joined the British and French. The Allied contingent received an ovation when on their way to the front. . DANGER THREATENING. NEW YORK, August 18. The Tokio correspondent cables that the Japanese Government has issued a stalement that under agreement Jap an is sending troops to (lie Manchurian border where danger is threatening-

CZECHO-SLOVAK SUCCESS. Received, this dav at 8.45 a.m. NEW YORK, Aug 19. The “Times” correspondent at Moscow says the Czccho-S'lovnks hold the railroad from Rmnari into Siberia. The capture of Simbirsk gives them control of the VolgUj thus threatening Kazan Misani Aan Gan, Misani Novgorod and even Moscow. Apparently there is no chance that the Bolsheviks are able to prevent the Czecho-Slovnks advancing in south-eastern Russia. IN MURMANSK. TERRIBLE PRIVATIONS. (Received This Day at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 19.

Arthur Capping, the “Daily Chronicle’s” correspondent at Murmansk, gives a pathetic narrative of the misery whereunder the Russians are suffering owing to the cruelty, brutality and cowardice of the Bolsheviks. He says at Murmansk there, are refugees, of which there are half a dozen nationalities, arriving by truck-loads and trainloads, occupying days and weeks, at rail sidings. Some have taken more than three months in reaching their destination. The refugees are accommodated in wooden huts, with grouped tiers of shelves for beds. The refugees still drift across the stricken country, and babies are born and old people die among their ranks. All talk of the murderous Bolsheviks. One-group included an ex-professor of l’etrograd, whose son, when playing soldiers in the street, was bayonetted mid his body thrown into t fie river.

The correspondent met an old Russian Admiral, whose property was confiscated and his money stolen. IJc is now living with his barefooted wife in a wretched hovel. Since the Allies’ arrival, the zone of safety has gradually been extended. The Bolsheviks quickly quitted Archangel.

ENEMY DETERMINATION. ON RUSSIAN FRONT. LONDON, Aug. 19. Tho “Daily Telegraph’s”, Milan correspondent quote the newspaper “Secolo” as stating that the Austro-fGer-mans at a conference, decided to abandon the Bolsheviks, clearly foreseeing the re-establishment of the eastern front. They are unable to send masses of troops to Russia, therefore they are withdrawing from Moscow to the railway line between Petrogrnd and Mohilev. They believe they can hold the line with certainty in the meanwhile, and thus strengthen their occupation of the Baltic provinces.

GETTING TOO HOT. (Received This Day at. 11.15 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Aug. 10. The “Cologne Volk Zcitung ” declares Herr Helfferrich has decided not to return to Russia owing to the dangerous conditions there.

czechc-slovaks appeal

(Received This Onv at noon.l LONDON, August 19

In connection with the Czccho-Slovak General’s appeal for assistance it is pointed out that only six weeks remain before the winter and it is important that the forces in Eastern Siberia mentioned, should link up with Irkutsk, by overcoming the Bolshevik forces eastward and southward of Lake Baikal. Obviously the Czechoslovaks are disappointed at the dimensions of the Allied assistance

GERMAN FRONT ADVANCED EASTWARD. (Received This Day at noon.) PARIS, August 19. The “Matin’s” Zurich correspondent j states that jn acordance with the agreement with the local Bolsheviks the German front has been advanced eastward the Germans occupying Vilibsk and Molensk. REIGN OF TERROR. IX PETROGRAD. Received this dnv at 2.90 p.m.,) WASHINGTON. Aug 19. Official advices from Russia through Sweden states there is a reign of terror in Petrograd. Thirty thousand arrests of army officers and Rourgoise have bpcn made. Lenin and Trotsky are believed to bo aboard the warship Aurora in Kronstadt harbour preparing to leave for Germany in case of a popular rising against the Bolshevik regime.