RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1920, Page 3

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

f AUSTRALIAN <£; N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] NO ALLIED TROOPS. LONDON, Jan. 27. The “Daily Express” learns that no British or Allied troops are going to the Caucasus or North Russia. British troops now in Caucasus will be withdrawn. A LOOTING ATTACK. (Received this day at 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 23. Advices from North Russia state tint a North Russian communique says that thousand Finns, with mac line guns, horse and reindeer transport, are attacking the famous monastry at Petchenga with the evident intention of looting the great treasures. The- inhabitants of the neighbouring villages are fleeing, panic stricken.

IN SIBERIA. (LONDON TIMES SERVICE —COPYRIGHT] (Received this day at 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 27. Mr Wilton writes from Vladivostocb that the Bolsheviks are superseding the Social Revolutionaries everywhere in the west of Baikal as soon as the Allied troops' depart. 'The Czechs have been waiting .for a chance against Koltehnk, whose regime they disliked. They attacked and disarmed Seminoff’s forces, sent to relieve Irkutsk. . Seminoff remains at Chita like a cork tossed on waves. He has proclaimed himself supreme ruler of eastern Russia.