UNIFYING SIBERIA.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 207, 30 August 1918, Page 5

UNIFYING SIBERIA.

UNIFYING SIBERIA. TALK HOEVAT COUP TAILS. (Received 10.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 23. Vladivostok advices atatu that (icnoral Plesnkoff, acting for General Falk Horvat, anti-Bolshevik leader, assumed comtrol of the Russian military forces in the Far East Ijy v coup d'etat. Tlie Siberian. Government was nonplussed by the suddenness of the movement, and was unable to organise opposition. The '"New York Times" Washington correspondent states that later oflieial advices from Vladivostok slate that Horvat's coup d'etat failed, and that the Allied representatives at Vladivostok divested Horvat of his self-assumed authority. The Czecho-Slovaks fighting on the Volga cabled their high appreciation of British recognition of the Czeeho-Slovak nation and the aid rendered them by the expedition to Russia.— (A. and N.Z.) PROGRESS IN EAST SIBERIA. (Received 11.4.> a.m.) LOXDCVX, August 20. A strong Japanese force arrived oa the L'ssuii front, in Eastern Siberia, and soon afterwards the Allies advanced six miles, capturing considerable booty and some prisoners. — (A. anil K.Z. Cable.)