RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1920, Page 2

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

I.y Electric Telegraph- C' v.igh'.i EIGHT IN SIBERIA. SOVIETS DEFEAT .JAPANESE. v HONOLULU, April 1 According to a cablegram from 3’okio the Japanese troops near NikoHivaJc, in Siberia, have suffered severe' losses in a battle with tile Russian fqrp.js fhpre.

LENIN EXULTS. LONDON, April 1. A Moscow wireless message states:—: Lenin preijidjng at the inauguration pf tlie new All Russian Congress of Bolsheviks, including both Norwegian and Swedish delegates said: —‘(He exulted in the fact that their exhausted country had defeated the strongest Governments of the world. By their centralisation, their self sacrifice, and their discipline, Russians had prevailed over those Govr ernments which incoherent groups of capitalistic beasts have reduced to impotence.”

IS THE CZAR HIDING? DOUBTS ABOUT EXECUTION. PARIS, March 31. Commandant Laires, has returned from a French Government, mission to Omsk. He states he visited .the house in Ekaterinburg, where it was reported the Tsar ond family were murdered. An examination left him sceptical as regards the,ir fate. He adds that a Russian officer showed him letters apparently establishing that the Tsar was alive in April 19PJ. ; 1 - t> ” The British military representative at Omsk also disbelieves the story of the Czar’s execution