THE RUSSIAN MIX-UP,

Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1918, Page 3

THE RUSSIAN MIX-UP,

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BRITISH SUCCESS

LONDON, September 20

It is announced Hurt General Pool® lias considerably advanced up the Dwina River and has cleared both sides for fifty miles south of Bercnitchala, severely defeating the Bolsheviks and sinking four ships.

CZECHS IN SERIOUS POSITION

LONDON, September 26

The situation of the Czechs on the Volga front continues serious. A cansiderable enemy force is operating in the dnreetion of Krasniufimsk, which the Czechs hold. 'Hie Bolsheviks are constantly being | reinforced by Germans. The new Bolshevik army is ultimately to consist, of half a million men, whom the Germans are now actively engaged in instructing . The majority of the Bolshevik forces are comparatively worthly, of which two thirds of them arc peasantry and about half the rest are workmen. The whole of Russian Bourgcoise class are intensely hostile t 0 the Bolshevik rule. Many workers at Yolo also tried to jou the' Czechs hut the Bolsheviks prevented them.

ANTI-BOLSHEVIK

NEW YORK, September 26.

The New York “TimesV’ Washington correspondent, states that the Russian Embassy there has received official despatches from Lfa that a provisional Russian Government has been formed, and thnff the government has repudiated, the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, and will fight Germany and the Bolshevik®.

NEW RUSSIA GOVERNMENT (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 26. With regard to the news from Ufa re a Provisional Government, it is stated that members of the national constitutional Assembly elected a year ago, formed a now Government which is composed of a Directorate of five members, among whom aro the present or former head of three main sectional Governments at Archangel, Amsk, and Samara. The directorate members are Aukendenkieff. Asrtof. Vologodsky, Tskhauovsky and Boldirff. The new Government will co-operato with the O.ocho-Slovnks.

THE SIBERIAN ARMY. (Received This Dnv at 8.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sop. 26

The Embassy.has also received a cable from the Russian Legation at Poking saying the Omsk Government had mobilised two classes of soldiers. Thete is now an army of more than two hundred thousand men and thirty thousand officers well organised and disciplined.