THE RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1918, Page 1

THE RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

[per press association. —copyright.] INTERNAL RUSSIA. PEKIN, September 22. The Kaiser on the 10th irst, ordered all Germans in Russia fit for duty to join the Soviet troops and oppose Japan and the Allies, who threaten to restore the Eastern Front.

A Vladivostock correspondent tvritos that the Czecho commander, Gerda, Inter A r ieAved, threw light on the significance of the Kaisers warning. He stated the organisation of Russian armies behind the Urals AA’as proceeding apace and already one army of fifty thousand was mobilised although at present lackbig essential military equipment. Three divisions are immediately needed to hold the Urals and allow the organisation to continue. Meanwhile the Gorman tentacles have closed on the Urals. The Government at Omsk has proved sufficiently strong to restore civil administration throughout Siber-

M ASS ACRE AND RAPINE. STOCKHOLM, September 22. A Russian eyewitness of the capture of Baku states the inhabitants, chiefly workers, who desperately defended the oijtiy succumbed, after two days, to superior forces of Turks and Kurds. Scenes of massacre and rapine followed. Town buildings and naptha works were set on fire, the consuerors doing great damage. The RolshcA’iks protest against the Turkish occupation of Baku as a breach of the BrestLitovsk Treaty.

DEALING WITH JUGOSLAVS. LONDON, Sep. 22. It is reported that Austria intends forming Bosnia -Herzcgovin a into a provincial government, under the Aus-tro-Hungarian Empire. It is understood the move is' intended to give effect to the Allies’ intentions to create a Jugo-Slav State.