RUSSIA.
THE CZECHO-SLOVAK POSITION AN IMPORTANT CENTRE CAPTURED. Received 5.45 a.m. LONDON, August 24. Reuter learns that the Czccho-Slo-vak f withdrawal, on the,- Ussuri , front, does riot affect-. their communications;, it is not regarded a.s a serious check. Moreover, it is reported to-day that the Czechs hayc. captured Verchiin‘dinsk, as important centre commanding’ the nailway tunnels south of Lake Baikal. -
THE TROUBLES OF RUSSIA
WHOLE VILLAGES DEPOPULATED
MOSCOW COMMUNICATIONS CUT,
Received 8.45 a.m. AMSTERDAM, August 24,
Besides cholera, famine and typhus now raging in , Petrograd, in the Northern Russian provinces the population of whole villages are dying out for want of bread. Practically all Moscow's railway communications arc cut oft’; this is partly due to the passive resistance of railwaymen. Counterrevolutionaries have blown up numerous bridges^
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Taihape Daily Times, 26 August 1918, Page 5
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