SIBERIA.
GUARDING VLADIVOSTOK. THE COUNTRY BOLSHEVISED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, London, Feb. 3. Mr. Wilton, writing from Vladivoatocfc, says that several million roubles were daringly stolen from the State Bank. The Japanese are now guarding Vladivostock, which is calm, though the whole country outside is Bolshevised. It is reported that large Japanese reinforcements are coming. Communication from the interior has ceased, except occasional wireless messages. Diplomatic and consular representatives are concerting measures for the protection of the lives and property of foreigners, who constitute CO per cent, of the population, including 60,000 Chinese and 6000 Japanese. Anti-foreign feeling is rising. RETREAT OP THE CZECHS. FIGHTING THEIR WAY OUT. Received Feb. 5, 10.35 p.m. Harbin, Feb. 4. The evacuation of the Czechs is miserably slow and is attended by the utmost hardships. The rearguard is continually fighting the Bolsheviks and is dynamiting bridges in order to cover the retreat, which, judged at the present rate, will take nine months. General Kappel, who was regarded as the most capable officer in the Siberian Army, died "of pneumonia, following frost-bite.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 February 1920, Page 5
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