RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 29 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

SIBERIAN SITUATION CZECHOSLOVAKS EESUME THE OFFENSIVE. TOKIO, August 27. Scminoff's troops, after their setback, resumed operations against 7000 Bolsheviks around Kailer, where Japanese reinforcements are arriving.

Twelve thousand Bolsheviks on the Ussuri front were completely repulsed on Sunday night. Twenty-three thousand officers, whom Leninites interned at Moscow, have been released in consequence of popular demonstration. VLADIVOSTOCK, Aug. 27. General Pleshkoff, on behalf of Horvath, carried out a coup d'etat. He issued a proclamation declaring the Kussian military forces in the Far East under his command whereupon the Kussian volunteers went over to Horvath en masse. The suddenness of the affair non-plussed the . Siberian Government which is unable to organise opposition. No bloodshed occurred. The Allied representatives are considering the situation. LONDON, August 28. The "Times' " Harbin correspondent states that Japanese and Kussian cavalry have been sent to protect the Vladivostock-Harbin railway. The maintenance of communications is causing anxiety. Enemy agitators are constantly stirring up the Bolshevik element amongst the population. The Allies are considering taking over control of the Chinese Eastern railway for the better transport of troops and supplies.

MORE TROUBLE, NEW- YORK, August 27 Doschfleurot, the New York World's Petrograd correspondent says within two days 2000 Russian officers, from subalterns to generals, have been arrested. ...... ..... It is reported here that liason between the Allies from Archangel and the Czecho-Slovaks has been ; made at Viatka, .and ,the.■Allies,-are advancing on the line of.,the Vologada river, setting up a Government at Novgorod. This will probably result in cutting •the railway from Moscow to, Petrograd. , A revolt has occurred at Nalva, on the Gulf of Finland. It is so serious that the Bolsheviks arc powerless to suppress it.