THE RUSSIAN TURMOIL

Gisborne Times, Volume L, Issue 5138, 2 April 1919, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN TURMOIL

ALLIES' JUNCTION FROM OMSK

TO ARCHANGEL

FRICTION BETWEEN JAPAN AND AMERICA.

BRITAIN ISSUES WARNING TO BOLSHEVIKS.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received April 1, 7.15 p.m.) LONDON, March 31.

The Daily Chronicle correspondent at Omsk reports that a detachment of Siberian troops leaving Cherdin eighty miles northward of Perm on skis junctioned with the Allied and Russian troops operating on the Archangel front. Thus unity of action has been established between Archangel and Omsk. Trotsky on the Ufa front is endeavoring to rally the Red Army eastward of the Volga, where many are deserting wj the Siberian side. OTTAWA, March 31. The withdrawal of the Canadian Siberian force has been ordered.

TOKIO, March 31

Baron Tanaka, Minister of War, informed the House of Representatives that Americans during the fighting at Blagovestchensky refused to co-operate with the Japanese. LONDON, March 30.

Mr. C. B. Harmsworth stated in the House of Commons that the Russian Bolshevist leaders had been informed that they would be held personally responsible for the safety r.i British prisoners. LONDON, March 31.

Lansdury, editor of the Daily Herald, asserts that the Allies have decided upon an understanding with the Bolshevists on the basis that providing the Bolshevists confine their activities to .the present territory the Allies will withdraw from Russia.