RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17877, 24 August 1918, Page 9

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

ALLIES AND THE BOLSHEVIKS. NORWAY ACTING FOR UATTED . STATES. ' WASHINGTON, August 22. Owing to tho Bolsheviks' war declara-. tione against the Allies, the United States has handed over to Norway its diplomatic affairs at Potrograd. DIFFERENT METHODS. Router's Telegrams. (Received August 24, 1.20 a»m.) AMSTERDAM, August 23. According to a German source, the Red Guards, upon capturing Simbrisk, publiclv hanged in the market place, 300 Czccho-Slovaks. • The "Weser Zeitung" learns from Archangel that Petapav, commander-in-chief of tho Red army in the Mur-' man district, was caught bv the peasants when fleeing and was handed over to the British.

COUNTER-REVOLUTION.

OFFICERS AND CIVILIANS ARRESTED. United Servico. COPENHAGEN, August 22. The "Frankfort Gazette" says that the 1 Soviet Government arrested 15,000 officers at Moscow and held them as hostages. Altogether about 50,000 officers havo been arrested throughout Russia. . A great number of the upper classes at Moscow have also been arrested on the ground of necessity in order to suppress thb counter-revolution.

SIBERIAN SITUATION.

THE ENEMY FORCES. United Service. TOKIO, August 22. The War Office announces that an enemy force eastward of Sunaiov now total 80,000. The enemy is arming forcemeats with machine-guns on the Ussuri River. :• Four enemy steamers on Lake Ehanka apparently intended to land men at Spaskoya, thirty miles from the Japanese front line, which would necessitate the withdrawal of the Japanese right warn:. There are about 17,000 enemy troops in the Amur area, 80,000 in TransBaikal and 3500 in the Urals.