RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1920, Page 2

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright,),, MOVE WITH RUSSIA. LONDON, Jan. 17. Russias co-operatives with whom the, Allies intend to trade, have twenty-five, million members, and are likely to. widely extend. Tlio Soviets reception of the move is not clear, but it is understood the proposal originated with Litvinoff. It is widely regarded as the beginning of a. Russian peace The Russian harvest is the best for thirty years and should reduce the cost of liv- ! iutr in Europe. | _ j DENIKEN’S POSITION. | LONDON, Jau. 17. | Deniken has established headquarters at Ekaterinador and hopes to hold lines I from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea. Bolsheviks claim the capture of Koltchak and remnants of his Ministry with a quantity of gold, but it is believed the actual captors are the insurgent Czechs.

SIBERIAN NEWS. LONDON, Jau. 17.

The “Times” correspondent at Karbin pictures the awful conditions of East Siberia. Seminoff lias assumed control of the Government headquarters at Chita, but is unable to secure co-ad,jutors, owing to the detestation and distrust in which he is regarded throughout the east. Only a few hundred of his troops are faithful. The rest have joined the Reds. Bolshevism flares throughout Siberia.

JAPS IN SIBERIA. LONDON, Jan. 20. The “Sunday Express” Tokio correspondent states: The Japanese Army authorities advise that they are sending an army of a hundred thousand troops to establish a zone in Siberia. The Japanese Cabinet, however, is said to bo anxious to keep down military committments. The Japanese press is opposed to this intervention. It regards the Bolsheviks as too strong for such a course.

SOVIET OPINION. (Received This Day. at 9.25 a.m.) MOSCOW, Jan, 18. Soviet newspapers describe the Allies’ lifting of the blockade, as a great victory for tbe Soviet’s Army, hut they depreciate excessive optimism, as our enemies may try to cheat us again. We must not lay pur arms aside to rust. The Central Soviet has decreed the abolition of capital punishment, owing to the complete victory of the Soviet ovef its enemies.