RUSSIAN MIX-UP.
By Electric Telegraph —Cop/nan 1 ■ SIBERIAN NEWS. PEKIN, December 30. The latest news shows that ttye condition of Koltchak’s retreating fxoops is appalling. To this, there is added the utmost political confusion. The local Premier and the remainder of the Government ofi Irkutsk arc quarrelling. There is a Socialist municipal element. Tliqy are bitterly opposed to the Government and are prepared tp compromise with the Bolsheviks.
A dangerous revult against the Go : vermpent and Koltchak is qpw threatening, The so-called loyal troops are really totally unreliable. Some companies were sent out to suppress an adjacent rising. They murdered their own officers and then joined the Bolsheviks. There are many bands of Bolsheviks operating west of Lake Baikal. Even the Czechs, who have the stablest element in Sebiria, are more symjpaifihetia foulards the Socialists than towards the Government. LONDON, December 31.
The “Times” referring to Koltchak’s reverses says: “The Allies must decade whether they will continue to support an incompetent and an intensely unpopular Siberian administration. ijjarjy Japanese interception in Sibgria js imperative. G
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1920, Page 2
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