RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ALLIES OUTNUMBERED,

HEAVY TOOTING AT TJBBOKI. THE TROOPS IN DRIBLETS' BOUOY. Received August 25, 5.5 p.m. London, August 23. General Falk, cabling from Harbin, states tliat there :s hea T y fighting at Ussuri, and that the Anglo-French troops engaged had suffered slight casualties. The Japanese .also participated, but the Cossacks and Czechs bore the brunt of the fighting, the Allies withdrawing, owing to being outnumbered; but the Japanese reinforcements are stemming the onset.

Bolshevik monitors on Lake Hanka are worrying the Allies' left flank. The Czechs destined for Manchuria- are being consequently detained This object lesson is the result of tho Allied policy of sending troops in driblets.—Press Assoc.

GERMAN AIMS.

TO ESTABLISH submarine bases. ALSO TO OUT ALUS® COMPLICATIONS. Received August 25, 6,5 p.iu. London, August 24. The Pall Mall Gazette ■•ays that the Germans are rapidly pushing the railway north of Finland, to Petffcenga, oa the Arctic epast, with *J>e object, inter alia, of establishing a submarine base in order to escape to the At'antic and thus be freed from the dangers of the North Sea, also to cut the Entente's communications with Russia from \7eestern Europe.— Press Assoc.

AN EFFECTIVE THREAT. Received August 33, 5.5 pm. Amsterdam, August 24, The Telegraph quotes a'Kieff message, stating t-iat tilt Bolsheviks have released 23,000 ex-officers at Moscow in consequence of tue population's threat to blow up the Kremlin unless the prisoners were released.—Press Assoc.

INTERNATIONAL COUNCILS. Washington, August %i. Tlie Allies have decided to ereate two International Councils at Vladivostook and Archangel. Britain will be represented at. Vladivostok by Sir Charles Elliott, and the American Ambassador, Mr Francia, will preside over the Archangel Council. —Aua.-N.Z. Cable Assoc

EBLffiP JX>R SIBERIA. Tokio, August 23. Japan has created an economic Relief 'Commission for Siberia, thereby keeping in step with the United 'States, . which attaches the greatest importance to relief as a means-of gaining the friendship of the people.—Aus.-N.Z. CaWe Assoc.

RED GIMKDS JOIN ENGUSH. \ Received Aug.»it'2s, 5.3 p.m. Stockholm, August 23 It is reported from Hc.'singfors that 10,OCO Red Guarl«, under Commander Ralija, have enrolled for service with the Engjish on the Murman coast,—'Renter.

GENERAL HOSSKY REAPPEARS. Rtecived August 2". S.o p.m. l?ern'>. August 23. The Vossisehe stiffs thin. General itussky, whose whereabouts lias ibeen a mystery for a year, has arrived at VkdivCstock, and offered hi'; serines to General Horvat'i.—Renter.