Russian Tangle.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 10 September 1918, Page 3

Russian Tangle.

ALLIES THREATEN SOVIET LEADERS. SUCCESSES IN SIBERIA. ' Receded this day, 10.40 a>.m. New York, September 9. Tlte State Department at Washington has received official advices saying that the Allied powers through the Ministers for Holland, Denmaifi, Switzerland and Norway have notified the Bolshevik authorities at Moscow th'at they will be held personally responsible for the safety of the Allied Consular officers and the Mission now in Russia. '. A Note has been presented to Tchitcherin vigorously protesting against tfoe latest action in connection with the proposed arrangements for the departure of the Consuls and Mission. A United! Press message from Vladivdftocik reports that Japanese cavalry have occupied Ivan, on the Ussuri front at the junction of the ffiman and Ussuri rivers. Tli© United Press correspondent at Peking states that General Semenoff on the Maneh.uriaii front reached the fortifications of Borgia on the trans-Siber-ian railway, southeast of Tchita. Japanese cavalry is aiding Semenoff and; lias prisonered a hundred of the enemy. Thei correspondent adds that adivices from Harbin state that tJhle Bolshevik troops destroyed the trans-Siberian railway west of Daura. The United Press Shanghai correspondent reports that Khabarovsk m Siberia, has been captured by Japanese troops, according to dispatcher from V 1 a divoatocik. THE BOLSHEVIK WAY. Received this day, l.RKp.m. AmFterdam, September 9. Messages from Petrograd, contain the official announcement of 512 shootings hitherto, reprisals for the murder or Writzki, and 121 namefi of hostages are published who will be shot in case of a fresh attempt. These include five Grand Dufcee, two of Kerenefcy's Mmisterts, prottiinent ex-officetrs or State and 35 big land-owners. . Th© ex-Arohimandrifce of th© Greok Church in Moscow was shot at Smolensk as a reprisal for an attack on Lenin. ADD OFICiTAL — — French official: Eastwards of Avesnen we progressed towards' Olastrep and occupied Lanotte farm. J3et^ r €Gn the Oiso tlio Aisn© the enemy are $esifiting u®.