THE RUSSIAN MIX UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1918, Page 3

THE RUSSIAN MIX UP.

[PER press association.— COPYßlGHT. 1 NEUTRALS PROTEST. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 9. A Moscow telegram states the neutral Powers hove protested against the wholesale execution of civilians , and officers. They threaten, to banish all Russian Bolsheviks from their countries.

A RUSSIAN THREAT. STOCKHOLM, Sept. 8. The newspaper “Svenskndgblad” reports from Helsingfors that 35 . Britishers holding offiial positions, have been arrested and are threatened with death if Lenin dies. OPENING COMMUNICATION. WASHINGTON September 8. Official advices from Pekin states that a telegraph line has been opened between Irkutsk and Pekin, via Pensea thus re-establishing communication between Eastern and West Siberia.

ALLIES PROTESTS TO RUSSIA. tlteceiV-'u this |U,v ar it) ’6. , NEW YORK, September 9. The State Department at Washington has received official advices saying the Allied powers through the Ministers for Holland, Denmark, Switzerland, and Norway, have notified the Bolshevik authorities at Moscow that they will be held personally responsible for the safety of the Allied Consular officers and mission now in Russia. In a note from the President to Tyhitchcrin lie vigorously protests against the latest action in connection with the proposed arrangements for the departure of the con snls and missions.

SIBERIAN NEWS. I'hic IV,v 10. If) i 111 NEW YORK, September 9. A United Press message from Vladivostok reports that Japanese cavalry have occupied the Ivan-Ussuri front at the junction of the Tinan and Ussuri rivers. The United Press correspondent at Pekin states Scnlenoff on (lie Manchurian front, has reached the fortifications at Borgia’on the tran-Siheriau railway south-east of Tchita. Japanese cavalry aiding So.menofF prisonered TOO of the enemy. The correspondent adds that advices from Harbin state Rolsliovik troops destroyed (lie trans-Siberian railway west of Laura. The United Press Shanghai correspondent reports Khabarovsk in Siberia has been captured by The Japanese troops. According to despatches from Vlaclivostoek.

RUSSIAN REPRISALS. (Received this dav at 1.30 p.m.l .AMSTERDAM, September 9. Messages from Petrograd contain official announcement of 512 shootings as reprisals for the murder of Wrifzki and 121 names ns hostages are published, who will be shot in case of a fresh attempt. These include five Grand Dukes, two of Kerensky’s Ministers, prominent ex-offi-cers of State, thirty five big landowners. Also the cx-Arehiman(lriic of Moscow was shot at Smolensk as a reprisal for the attack on Lenin.