RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

A MESSAGE FROM CZECH LEADER.

URGENT RELIEF KBOBSSi'R'S'.

Received Aug. '22, 10.45 -p.m. fl Tokio, Aug. 2IL fl The War Office publishes a from the Czech leader, stating thai 30,000 Austro-Gennans, •with serventjß guns and many machine-guns, coiifronßj 8000 Czechs with six guns, aml wgiDjjM the promptest -relief.—Aus. Z-

THE ALLIES' HELP. -

WILL - REACH- CZECHS IN TTIWTf„

Received August 23,. 12.25*"a.m. Ni'w York,.AugnsMSL . The Times's Washington corresponds! states that it is intimated in official vcxp cles that assistance being sent to -the Czecho-Slovaks in the Lako Baikal .region will reach them iu time to thwart the plans of the German and Austrian prisoners and the Bolsheviks. The Alliea anj sending the Czecho-Slovaks large quantities of arms, ammunition and heavy artillery. The correspondent adds, that the landing of Japanese troops at Vladivoatock, with General Otani as com-mander-in-chief of the Allied forces,, la confirmed in an official dfisnn.foTi-—Arm' and N.Z., Cable Assoc.

EX-CZAR'S-BODY RE-ISTKRTftBTV. 1

London, Augastri2Jj "X j German papers stsrto .that Czedfc'J Slovak authorities ex'tramed -the cxh Czar's body, wWch had been buried :ioi the suicides' cemetery, and solemnly ie-5 interred the remains in consecrated ground in the prc-seace-of Ekaterinburg residents.—UnitedvSeniWi#