RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1920, Page 1

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

I AUSTRALIAN & N.Z CABLE ASSOCIATION! BRITISH TROOPS RAND. J (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, March 8. British semi-official circles state the landing of troops at Constantinople "a® not undertaken without the fullest consent of the Allies. It is understood the British Black Sea Army is available and numbers 24,000 combatants

POLISH ARMY SUCCESS. (■Received This Day at 8 a.m.) WARSAW, March 10. Official—The Polisli Army inflicted a smashing blow on the Bolsheviks on the Lithuanian front, compelling the Reds to retreat in a panic. The staff of the fourty-seventh Red division were among a thousand prisoners captured The important .strategical railway Moryrl to Ivalenkowitz, was severed" The achievement has stirred public enthusiasm as a triumph of the first importance to the Jiolitical fortunes of Piisudski, making him virtually the absolute dictation of Poland.

SHOCKING CONDITION'S

(Received This Day at 8 a.m.)

LONDON, March 10. British officers and other refugees on route to Vladivostock describe the scene west of Irkutsk as surpassing all previous horrors. Piles of naked frozen corpses, men, women, and children are stacked at every railway station. Many sire gnawed by dogs. The Czechs t-ook the engines of hospital trains, leaving the sick to perish of cold and hunger. It uas a case of human beings converted into beasts. The Czechs General ha s since voluntarily demobilised the army and publicly begged forgiveness for the abuses and cruelties inflicted in his name. The reds hone shortly to control the entire Siberian railway. Chinese have disposed of three thousand soldiers along that portion of the line. The authorities asked the Japanese commanders to undertake to guard other sections by replacing the departing Americans. nnissaifY wsß. e 's

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright A PRINCELY CAD. BERLIN, March 8

The ex-Kaiser’s cousin, Prince Joachim Albrecht of Prussia, whose arrest has been ordered by Herr Noske, Minister for Defence, was the leading figure in a scandalous attack on a French officer, and his wife and a civilian at the Hotel Adlon. A gang of idle and wealthy German aristocrats, under the influence of drink, demanded “Deutschland über Alles” from the orchestra, and pelted the French guests for refusing to rise when it was played. All were injured before they were able to withdraw wtili the assistance of a bodyguard of waiters.

The French officer was a member oi the Military Mission staying at the Ad. lon. The matter will he taken on diplomatically.

The gang have been making themselves obnoxious by visiting restaurants and demanding patriotic music. Their visit to the Hotel Adlon was a deliberate provocation, as it is the sort of foreigners in Berlin. t•' A GERMAN APOLOGY. A (Received This Dav at 8 a.m.) PARIS, March 10. The German Charge d’ Affaires has apologised to M. Millerand for the Berlin hotel incidents. GERMAN ASSAULTS. ; ON BRITISH IN GERMANY. . (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) BERLIN ' March 10.

Savage assaults on Entente representatives continue to excite the country. Eight French flying officers, members of the aviation are missing. They were attacked at Wernitz, near Potsdam by a mob of peasants, armed with hayforks and some firearms. The peasants accused them of poaching and summoned them to surrender. Four obeyed and the others tried to escape. One was killed and two wounded. The fourth escaped. The Foreign Office is enquiring into the matter. A crowd assaulted a. British chauffeur attached to the Boundary Commission near Poson, because he photographed the William I statue. Prince Goaehim and Colonel con Platen have been lodged in prison, as a 'osult of the Adlon hotel incident. The commander at 'Bremen has appealed to Entente officers not to wear their uniform.

According to a Karlsruhe official, it is estimated one hundred thousand Germans arc left in -Alsace Lorraine. Three Allied officers of high rank, members of the Military Mission were assaulted by a largje crowd in the streets of Bremen. An enquiry lias opened.