RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

A COUP AT OMSK.. iUMnUTi MADE nTfTTATftft Boegimd Not. 24, 5.5 p.m. Hew York, W. 22. Dispatch** ax Vladivostok, gay that A eoop oeenmd at Omsk, whereby Admiral Kofafcak «u made dictator at the Jnatanee of the Council of Ministers of tt* AH Busies Government. The coup «• directed against the activities of Baikal Mfaußtere.--Aua. JUL Cable FURTHER DETAILS. HUXKDfO QTJTLAWHY. Beeehed 3fov. 24, 11.30 pm. Washington, Nov. 2: Official despatches received by the fhusian Embassy say that the Omsk eoop (eabled ea the 22nd) was less sensational than at <TO appeared. The coup was attempted by three officer?, who arrested two memoers of the All Bosnians Governmenf la order to block farther outlawry The Council of Minister* gave Admiral Kofehak supreme authority to take the necessary mea- —< to iiiaaiii »m order.—Ans.-KZ.Cable

MUTINY OF AUSTRIAN TROOPS. A GENERAL ASSASSINATED. POLES AND BOLSHEVIKS FIGHT. Received Nov. 24, 11.40 pju. Berne, Nov. 22. The Austrian army in the Ukraine has ceased to exist. When the troops asked General Hoffmann to demobilise them In refused, and a mutiny broke out The troops besieged the headquarters, arrested sad ixnmd Hoffmann, ran bayonets through him and burned the corpse. The mutineers broke tike safes and divided eighty million crowns. The disorder led to a fight with the Poles and Bolshevik bands. The disorder continues.—Aus. N.Z. .Cable Assoc.