RUSSIA

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 1 September 1919, Page 7

RUSSIA

CHINESE BECOMING PROBOLSHEVIK.

GUNBOATS ON THE AMUR

. SY CABUj-PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHI (Times.) (Received- Sept. 1, 12.10 r>.m ) T , LONDON, Aug. 31. «+o+ Al^! Respondent at Tomsk states that the Chinese are steadily developing a pro-Bolshevik attitude as the result of Red propaganda. Com- . Mandere in Northern Manchuria are seriously encroaching on the railway .zone,, abandoning the section for protection allotted to them by th e interAJhed Commission, and employing six gunboate on the Amur. They are thu* • able from the Harbm railway to threaten^ the communications of the whole of Liberia. These incidents ar e heloing to rti«ml*te the hostility of cootfes towards all foreigners. Admiral Koltchak has resolutely protested against the presence of the gunboats, and un- . Ifese the vessels are recalled he proposed to take measures to protect Russian inten&te. • j