SIBERIA.

Grey River Argus, 4 October 1918, Page 3

SIBERIA.

JAPANESE ACTIVITY,

(Ree. October 3. 7 p.m.) , c TOKIO October 2

The Japanese in Siberia have captured and disarmed many more AustroGerman pri.oners.

ARRESTS OF ENGLISH AT PETRO-

GRAD

LARGE NUMBER IMPRISONED,

LONDON, October 2

The "DaVly Chronicle's correspondent at Petrograd, in a report dated from the St Peter and St Paul fortress in Petrograd, sth September (the report reaching London circuitously) says that after the Chief of Police Uritisky, was murdered on 30th August, the Bolsheviks newspapers unanimously accused the so-called English Club of having engineered vhe murder, though not a single Englishman was a member of the Club.. An attack on the British Embassy followed. English residents fully expected to be lynched, such was the violence of the Red Guards, but they merely arrested and confined the English i'o the Police Pre fecturc. They included Mr Macki'e (Vice Consul), a British Chaplin, and correspondents of the "Chronicle," "Morning Post," and "Daily Express "

The "Times" says tTiar the prisoners were herded with 130 others, including murderers, burglars, and criminals of every description. There w-erc beds for thirty-six. One criminal, on familiar vcrras .with a visp : n<j police commissary, explained thai the Commissary was formerly his criminal associate; who was* sentenced to . death for housebreaking, but was released on condition that he betrayed his associates. He now rides in. a motor, and is tracing his frrends, of whom he had be trayed 200. The altitude of the Red Guards towards the prisoners is mostly correct, but. the Commandant has been brutal. Fresh prisoners were constant ly arriving in overennvded rooms that are foul and stifling.