THE RUSSIAN MIX UP

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1918, Page 3

THE RUSSIAN MIX UP

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THE CZECHO-SLOVAKS

FACILITATING THE ADVANCE

PEKIN July ffi

As the result of a friendly conference Horvot has agreed to facilitate the advance of tho Czecho-Slovaks to the Balkans via the Chinese, eastern railway, with a view to ultimate cooperate with their compatriots at Irkutsk.

It is expected that Austrian war prisoners in Serbia will join tho Czechs and largely increase the main fighting force.

The “Times,” says trustworthily that 80,000 Czecho-Slovaks in Siberia, and 30,000 in European Russia intend to reach tlio French front via Vladivostock.

MOSCOW UPRISING CRUSHED

CZECHO-SLOVAKS ENDANGERED

WASHINGTON, July 13

The Russian Embassy made a statement that the Moscow uprising lr been crushed by the combination of German and Bolshevik arms. It was the manifestation of Russian national feeling with the 'Germans and Bolsheviks will crush, unless Allied aid is sent.

The Embassy declared that tho crushing endangers the entire Czocho-Slo-vaws revolt. In reference to Mirbach’s machinations statement he declares; “Flo entertained the most cordial relations with tho Bolsheviks and flooded the country with deliberate misinformation, and simultaneously attempted to induce the moderates to accept German military help to overthrow the Bolsheviks, and promised reconsideration of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty.

PROCLAMATION ISSUED. Received, th.s day at 8.45 a.rn. COPENHAGEN July lfi. The Czecho National Conference at Prague have issued a proclamation for an independent democratic Czechoslovak state. t

IN THE FAR NORTH. COPENHAGEN, July lfi. fn the event of a serious Murman conflict Finland is to remain neutral. German newspapers declare that Germany now has sufficient troops in Finland to meet tho Entente troops and Red Guards.