BOLSHEVSKS CO-OPERATING WITH GERMANS.
OCCUPATION OF PETROGRAD AND MOSCOW LIKELY.
(Received S.oo a.m.) NEW YORK, July 21. Mr. J. Shaplen, the Vnited Press Association's Stockholm, correspondent, states that the Russian Press expects the German occupation of Moscow and Petrograd, due to the rapid development of the Murman situation. Tlic Bolsheviks are co-operating with the Germans, permitting them to travel northward by the Murman railway through Petrograd and the Zvanko Junction. Cholera is rampant in many cities besides Petrograd.—(A. and X.Z.) CZECHOSLOVAKS COMMANDING SIBERIAN RAILWAY. (Received 12.25 a.m.); LONDON, July 21. Reiiter'3 Vladivostok correspondent states that 40,000 Czecho-Slovaka hold the railway between Samara, on the Volga, and Irkutsk, on Lakp Baikal, iv Siberia. Twelve or fourteen thousand Czeeho-Slovaks from Vladivostok arc fighting- the Boleheviks at Cliabarovsk, on the trans-Siberiaa railway, 350 miles north of Vladivostok. They occupied Spasskaia after a stubborn tight, and propose to link up with the Czeeho-Slovaks from Irkutsk. There are 47,000 Bolsiievikß and ex-prisoners be twees ]£habaroYsk_and Irkutek.— (Router.) ' :
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 173, 22 July 1918, Page 5
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