RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 21 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

I * CZECHS DISAPPOINTED AT ALLIES’ SMALL AID. * LONDON, August 19. In connection with the Czecho-Slo-vak General’s appeal for assistance, it is pointed out that only six weeks remain before the winter. It is important that the forces in Eastern Siberia, meantime, should link up with Irkutsk, overcoming the Bolshevik forces eastward and southward of Lake Baikal, Obviously the Czecho-Slovaks are disappointed at the dimensions of the Allied assistance. The Paris newspaper “Matings” correspondent states that in accordance with the agreement with the local Bolsheviks, the German front has been advanced eastward, the Germans occupying Vitebsk and Smolensk. REIGN OF TERROR IN PETROGRAD. v, I rr WASHINGTON, .August 19. . Official advices from. Russia through Sweden, state, that a reign, of terror existl im Petrograd. . Thirty thousand arrests,.of army officers and bourgcoisc have'been made. Lenin and Trotsky, the Bolshevik leaders, are believed to be aboard the warship Aurora, in Kronstadt harbour, preparing to leave for Germany in case of an uprising. JAPANESE LAND AT AMEER. CZECHOSLOVAKS AND BOLSHEVIKS FIGHTING. Received 9.10 a.m. VLADIVOSTOCK, August 20. Reuter’s correspondent states that a contingent of Japanese marines has disembarked in the Ameer province to protect the Nationals. Firce fighting has taken place between the „ Czechoslovaks and the Bolsheviks on the Ussuri front, and resulted Jn the retirement of the Czechoslovak, outposts. : 1 MOSCOW. FULL OF RUMOURS. J.- , r ’’ OF . COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY i- PLOTS. Received 9.10 a.m. LONDON, August 20. The “Daily News” Stockholm correspondent says Moscow is full of rumours of counter-revolutionary effort about August 20. It is described as an officers’ plot, and it is stated that many Monarchists are involved. The Time has been chosen to coincide with the period of greatest starvation, but the Soviets are extremely efficient at dealing with such plots. CHINA SENDS TROOPS TO SIBERIA. Received 9.45 a.m. WASHINGTON, August 20.. Official advices say the Chinese Government has sent a large number of troops to the Siberian border to pre- ' vent the invasion of Chinese territory by former German, Austrian, and Hungarian prisoners of war, who have joined the Bolsheviks against the Czecho-Slovaks in the Trans-Baikal region.