THE RUSSIAN MIX UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1918, Page 3

THE RUSSIAN MIX UP.

[•AUSTRALIAN & X. 7.. CABLE ASSOCIATION']

IN NORTH RUSSIA

NEW YORK, Dee. 1

Dispatches from Archangel state Rus-sian-American forces have advanced up the Pinega River, s'id cimured Karp'* zorskoi. GERMAN AID. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 2. Ackerman, the “ New York Times correspondent, telegraphing from Ekateriugburg, states: Despite the Germans’ agreement to withdraw troops from Russia, German Generals and officers remain commanding the Bolsheviks’ armies. The Czccho-Slovak staff has information clearly indicating General Brucjkcr remains with his staff as chief of the Bolshevik General Staff. - Also General Eberlmrdt still commands the Bolshevik Army at Samara oil the southern front. Assisting the German Generals are a German Magyar staff, who are busy attending to form a large Bolshevik Army for operations next spring. According to Czccho-Slovak inform ation the Bolshevik Army numbers 227.000' with 23 new divisions called tjf for spring. The Czccho-Slovak Army forces are formidable. The Bolshevik forces threaten their communications with Vladivostock. Ihe Czechs must either withdraw from Siberia or obtain Allied military assistance.

THE LEMBERG DISORDERS. 'Received This Dav at 11.25. a.m-' BERNE, Doc. 2.

The Polish Press Bureau admits forty Jews and a dozen Christians were killed in the recent disorders at Lemberg, and says the perpetrators were a hundred released criminals, assisted by deserters. It adds that fifty of these bandits were shot and fifteen - hundred imprisoned, of whom less than half are Poles.

NORWAY ANNOYED

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 2

Bolsheviks entered the Norwegian Legation at Petrograd and removed documents belonging to Switzerland whose interests were under the protection of Norway. The Norwegian Minister vainly protested. The newspapers now demand that Norway break relations with the Soviet Government.