SLOVAKS IN RUSSIA.
MASTERS OF LOWER VOLGA. RED GUARDS OVERTHROWN. (Received 12.25 pjn.) AMSTERDAM, July 15. The Tageblatt" announces that the Czecho Slovaks, despite very heavy resistance by the Red Guards, captured Kazan, on the Volga, 100 miles southeast of Nijni Novgorod. It adds that by the occupation of this important railway and waterway junction the Czecho Slovaks become masters of the Government of the Lower Volga. The newspapers state that the Czecho Slovaks are utilising Trotzky'e mobilisation in the Urals on the Volga and in West Siberia for their own purposes, forming from the recruite the so-called "'Black" Guards, which arc co-operating with the Czecho Slovaks and other counter revolutionary forcee.—(Reuter.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 168, 16 July 1918, Page 5
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