RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 30 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

GENERAL ADVANCE IN EASTERN SIBERIA. LONDON, August 28. ‘ A Vladivostock message dated Saturday last states that a general advance of 'all the Allied forces has begun on ■ the UssuiT front, in Eastern Siberia.; the Bolsheviks retired six miles, the Americans and • Japanese are 1 entraining for Ussuri. HORVATH STRIPPED OF POWER. Received 8.45 a.m. NEW YORK, August 29. The New York “Times” Washington correspondent states that official advices from Vladivostock state that Horvath’s coup de etat, cabled on the 28th, failed. The Allies’ representatives at Vladivostock have divested Horvath of his self-assumed authority. FINNS REJECT KAISER’S NOMINEE. AMSTERDAM, August 2S Finnish opposition to Grand Duke Adolph of Mecklenburg as King resulted in vetoing the proposal. Finns want a constitutional king, not a member of the world’s most reactionary family. CZECHO-SLOVAK APPRECIATION, OF BRITISH RECOGNITION. Received 9.15 a.m. WASHINGTON, August 29. Czecho Slovaks fighting on the Volga cabled Nasarysk their high appreciation of British recognition of the Czecho Slovak nation and aid rendered them by sending an expedition to Russia. JAPANESE AT WORK. PRISONERS AND BOOTY CAPTURED. Received 11.35 a.m. VLADIVOSTOCK, Aug 29 Strong Japanese forces have arrived on the Ussuri front, and soon afterwards the Allies advanced six miles and captured considerable booty and some, prisoners. ,