RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3387, 16 January 1920, Page 5

RUSSIA.

JAPAN IN SIBERIA. INTERVENTION UNPOPULAR. ‘ TOKIO, Jan. 14. At ‘an important Cabinet meeting the Siberian question was lthreshed out. The decision arrived at has not been announced. The opposition to intervention by Japan,"h3\vever, is reported to be growing stronger. " ' TI-IE BOLSHBVIK VICTORY. COLLISION WITH JAPAN AVOIDED. ‘BRILLIANT CAVALRY WORK_ ‘ ‘ Received 9.30 am. LONDON, Jan. 13. A Moscow wireless states the Soviet army will soon arrive in proxiininity to «the Japanese, but will not undertake any aggressive action calculated to provoke collision with Japan. The Soviet’s victory ‘over Kol chak is due to the support of b‘-Sberian peasants, ‘and a Wholesale desertion of Kolt.chak’s troops. The wireless. does not mention Koltchak’s capture»; it says that Denikin’s defeat was due to Red cavalry Created in order to answer ;\[a]llollfoff’S‘=Al'flld. The exploits of the cavalry, under Budenll_\' and Dumenko, will ever be »famous in milit.ary annals. l IRKUTSK AFLAME. l E LONDON, Jan. 15. ' Irkutsk is aflarne. The r::Volu‘cir.vn—-|ai-ies hotd possession of the town. E .-------0—.....—......._...-.-...-.-.....-..