RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 July 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

CAMPAIGN AGAINST BOLSHEVIKS. CZECHS TRYING TO JOIN VV WITH ' SEMEXOFF. ' i Received .luly 28, 5.5 p.m. London, July 20. The Czechs 'have considerably progressed from Vladivostock. They are , trying to join hands with the Czechs in the west. The former advanced twentyseven miles from Xikolk. The force ■> under General Semenoff have retired into , Manchuria before a strong Bolshevik force. The latter did not attempt to follow. —Reuter. I PEASANT REVOLT IN UKRAINE. GERMAN'S FALL BACK. Received July 28, 5.5 p.m. Paris, July 27. A peasant revolt on a large scale has commenced in the Ukraine. A well-offi-cered and organised force of 75,000 men forced the German detachments to fall back upon Kieff. —United Press. SHORTAGE OF FOOD. GERMAN DEMANDS. Received July 28, 5.5 p.m. Washington, July 27. The Sttae Department advises that there is insufficient food to supply Russia's' needs. Germany is demanding large quantities from Russia. The position is acute.—Press Association. UKRAINIAN RAILWAYMEN STRIKE. GERMANS TAKE THEIR FOOD SUPPLIES. Received July 28, 11 p.m. London, July 28. A Russian wireless message from Petrograd on the twenty-seventh stated: One hundred and eleven cases of cholera were reported on July 26. The Ukrainian railway employees have struck, the Germans having confiscated the food reserves of the railway workmen.—Press Association. COSSACKS JOIN THE CZECHOSLOVAKS. ADVANCE ON IRKUTSK. Received July 28, 5.5 p.m. Shanghai, July 27. Drastic changes have been effected in the personnel of the Siberian Government. The Ussurisk Cossacks have joined the. Czecho-Slovaks, whose eastern army is preparing to advance on Irkutsk.—Reuter. INDEPENDENCE OF SIBERIA. NEW GOVERNMENT'S PROCLAMATION. Received July 28 5.5 p.m.' Pekin, July; '-27. The Provisional Siberian Government' at Omsk, in a proclamation, declares the independence of Siberia, annuls the Bolsheviks' decrees, orders the closing of the Soviets, and restoration to landowners (pending a settlement of the agrarian question by the Constituent Assembly) ,and requests the Siberian Government at Vladivostock to approve its action.—Reuter. JAPS LANDED WEEKS AGO. Received July 28, 11 p.m. Paris, July 27. The Petit Parisien states that Japanese detachments landed at Vladivostock weeks ago, and are co-operating with the Czecho-SLovaks north of Nikolsroos Surisk.—Reuter. ffAMDLY SAFE. Received July 28, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, July 27. [ According to Moscow papers, the exCfear's family is safe in a Monastery in Siberia. —Press Association.