RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1918, Page 6

RUSSIA.

THE MURMAN COAST. " ANGLO- AMJiIIICAN OCCUPATION. i New York, July 15. e The Americans and British have occu- - pied the entire Murman coast.—Reuter. London, July 15. f Americans also landed on the Murman s coast.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. ; STABLE SIBERIAN GOVERNMENT. :i ■ NUCLEUS FOR ALLIED INTERVEN- ; . TION. 1 Tokio, July 15. Howart, who has declared himself - Premier of Siberia, is popularly known i as the uncrowned King of Manchuria. - He was a close friend of General Alexieff [ when the latter was Viceroy of the Far East. His Cabinet includes the chief i leaders of commerce, agriculture, and , other stable elements in Siberia, of all i parties, thus offering a nucleus for Allied ' intervention, which the new Government ordently desires in order to rid Siberia of the Bolsheviks; but speedy action is Essential, or the Russians, in despair, may turn to the Germans.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. THE CZECHO-SLOVAKS. DOMINATE LOWER .VOLGA. Amsterdam, July. IS, The Tageblatt announces that the Czeeho-Slovaks, despite the heaviest resistance by t ( he Red Guards, captured Kazan. The paper adds that by the occupation of this important railway and waterway junction the Czecho-Slovaks become the masters o£ the Government of the lower Volga. Newspapers state that the Czechoslovaks are utilising Trotsky's mobilisation in the Urals, on the Volga, and in the west of Siberia for their own purposes, and are forming from the recruits ' the so-called Black Guards, which are » co-operating with the Czecho-Slovaks and other counter-revolutionary forces.— ; Reuter. [