RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17878, 26 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

ALLIED INTERVENTION.

JAPAN'S ECONOMIC -MISSION.

TOKIO. August 23

Japan lias created, svn Economic Relief Commission for Siberia, thereby falling

into line with the United States, which attaches the greatest importance to relief as a means of gaining the friendship of the people.

INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL. WASHINGTON, August 22.

The Allies have decided to create.two International Councils at .Vladivostok and Archangel. Britain will be represented at Vladivostok by Sir Charles Eliot, and the American Ambassador, Mr D. Francis, will preside over the Archangel Council.

RED GUARDS JOINING BRITISH.

(Received August 25, 5.5 p.m.) STOCKHOLM, August 23. It is reported from tlelsingfors that 10,000 Red Guards, under their commander, Ilalija, have been enrolled for service with tho British on the Murman coast. •

SIBERIAN SITUATION. .?

ALLIES FALL BACK. United Service. 5f (Received August 25, 5.5 p.m.) ■ LONDON, August 28. Mr Falk, cabling from Harbin, state* I that in heavy fighting, on the Uesuri » British and Frencii troops were engaged and suffered slight casualties. The Japanese also participated. The Cossacks and Czechs bore the brunt of the fighting. The Allies are withdrawing because they are outnumbered, but Japanese reinforcements aro stemming the onset. The Bolsheviks' monitors on Lake Khanka aro worrying the Allies' left flank. The Czechs destined for Man- ■- churiaare consequently dedtained. Thla object lesson is the result of the Allied policy of sending troops in driblets. (The Ussuri is a tributary of the Anrur and is fed by Lake Khanka, over 100 miles north-west of Vladivostok.) . )

(Received August 25, 11 p.m.) WASHINGTON, August 24. The Omsk and Vladivostok anti-Bol-shevik Governments have reached an agreement, thus placing Siberia Under one central authority.

RUSSKY AND EWERTS REPORTED ! AT VLADIVOSTOK. (Received August 25, 5.5 p.m.) BERNE, August 23. The "Vossische Zeitung" says that General Russky, whose whereabouts have been a mystery for a year, has arrived at Vladivostok and has offered his services to General Horvart. ATHENS, August 23. It is reported that v General Ewer'ts accompanied General Russky to Vladivostok.

COUNTER REVOLUTION. CZECH DEFEAT NOT CONFIRMED. LONDON, August. 23. There is no confirmation, of the alleged Bolshevik successes over the Czecho-Slovaks at various points, or that the Czechs have fallen back east of the Volga. ~,

OFFICERS RELEASED. (Received August 25, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, August 24.

The " Exchange Telegraph " agent at' Amsterdam quotes a Kiev message aa stating that the Bolsheviks released 23,000 ex-officers at Moscow in consequence of the population threatening to blow up the Kremlin unless the prisoners were released.

THE GERMAN ADVANCE.

RAILWAY IN FINLAND. ' (Received August 25, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, August 23.

The "Pall Mall Gazette" says that the Germans are rapidly pushing the railway in North Finland to Petchenga on the Arctic coast, with the object, inter alia, of establishing a submarine base in order to escape to the Atlantic and thus be freed from the-dangers o£ the North Sea, and also to cut the Entente's communications with Russia from Western Europe. ■ \