SITUATION IN SIBERIA.
ALLIED MISSION ATTACKED. WORKMEN PRO-BOLSHEVIK. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Paris, Jan. 22. While the Allied Mission trains were lying at Irkutsk ■station negotiating for a passage through to the coast three of Semenoff's aimoTed trains arrived. A regular battle followed. The revolutionaries sent empty engines roaring down the line and two of Semenoff's train 9 were wrecked and some of the Allied Mission were wounded by flying bullets and shrapnel. A battalion of Japanese rescued the Mission. The Czech officers have lost control of their met, who are showing sympathy with the Reds. Workmen in Bast Siberia are everywhere notoriously Bolshevik. The rolling stock of the trains is falling to pieces.—Times' Service.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1920, Page 5
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114SITUATION IN SIBERIA. Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1920, Page 5
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