ANTI-SOVIET REVOLT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 185, 5 August 1918, Page 6

ANTI-SOVIET REVOLT.

SUCCESS IN

SUPPORT FOR ALLIES.

(Received 1.45 a.m.)

WASHINGTON, August 4.

A Stale Department statement issued on the question of intervention in Russia says:—"Military intervention in Russia would he more likely to augment the present confusion than to cure it. Military intervention in Russia is not admissable, only to render help and protection to the Czecho-Slovaks against the Austrian and German prisoners, who aro attacking them. Whether from Vh-divostock or from Murmansk and Archangel, the only present object, of American troops will be to guard military stores and render aid acceptable to the Russians in the organisation of their self-defence." NEW YORK. August 4. The United Press Association's correspondent at, Kandalaskaya. on the White Sea, states that a revolution in favour of the Allies occurred at Archangel. Soviet- troops were driven out of the city, and after the success of the revolutionists an Allied detachment landed. The "New York Times" Washington correspondent says that several thousand Italians, and Rumanians, subjects of Austria-Hungary, formerly prisoners of war. joined the Czecho-Slovaks. He adds that England and Franco are sending a few hundred soldiers to Vladivostock, who will act independently of the! Japanese and American forces. — (A. and N-Z.) ,

MARTIAL LAW IN UKRAINE. (Received 1.10 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, August 4. Martial law has been proclaimed in the Ukraine, and measures taken at KicfT against an expected revolt. The bodies of ten murdered Cerman soldiers were found in the suburbs. (A. and N.Z.) ! HELPING ANTI-BOLSHEVIKS.

WASHINGTON, August 4. j Tho State Department announced that 'a small joint American and Japanese military expedition will be sent to Vladivostok to aid the O.echo-Slovak forces. Tlie United States will also send troops to the Murman coast and nlso a commercial and industrial mission to Russia. ■The Allies have landed troops at Archi angel. j Tlie American expedition to Vladivostok will consist of a few thousand soldiers. The mission, which will be purely American, will be composed of business men. a Red Cross detachment, agricultural experts. Labour advisers, and V.M.C.A. officials. An anti-Bolshevik revolution has broken out at Archangel, and the Soviets have fled.A. and N.Z. Cable.)