RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 23 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

__ _4» _ JAPANESE OPERATIONS IN \ v SIBERIA. OFFICIAL REPORT. ■:. Received 9 a.m. TOKIO, August 22. The Japanese War Office announces: The enemy force eastward of Simacov is now SO,OOO. The enemy is arming rafts with machine guns on the Usuri River. There are four enemy steamers at Ljackicanka, apparently intended to land men at Sparkoys, 30 miles from the Japanese front line, which necessitated the withdrawal of the Japanese right wing. There arc about 17,000 of the eneimy in the Amu area, 80,000, in Zabaekal, and 3500 in chc Urals. » 50,000 OFFICERS ARRESTED. Received 9 a.m. COPENHAGEN. August 22. The Frankfort Gazette says the Soviet Government has arrested fifteen thousand officers at Moscow, who are being held as hostages. Altogether about fifty-thousand officers have been arrested throughout Russia. A great number of the upper classes in Moscow have also been arrested on the ground that it is necessary in order to suppress the counter revolution. U.S.A. AFFAIRS HANDED OVER TO NORWAY. Received 10.5 a.m. WASHINGTON, August 22. .Owing to the Bolsheviks' war declarations the United States has handed over to Norway diplomatic affairs at Petrograd: "WELL DONE! CARRY ON!" LLOYD GEORGE'S MESSAGE TO WOMEN. Receved 11.25 a.m. LONDON ,August 22. The Press Bureau states that Lloyd George has sent a message to the mass meeting of Allied war workers in Paris, paying a tribute to the women's work in hospitals and factories, on the land, and behind the lines, addins: "In the past I have heard it said that women were unfit to vote, because they would be weak under the stress of a great war. My experience of women is that they understand practically what is at stake in this war to them. It is a crusade for righteousness and gentleness. They won't make peace until the Allies have rendered impossible another carnival of violence to befall mankind. My ms». sage is, well done; carry on; you are helping to create a new eaTth tor yourselves and your children."