CZECHOSLOVAK PROGRESS
STRONG GRIP ON SIBERIA. ATTEMPT TO JOIN FORCES. Router. LONDON, July 21, Router's Vladivostok correspondent states that 40,000 Czeeho-Slovaks hold the railway between Samara, on the Volga, and Irkutsk, on Lake Baikal, in Siberia. Twelve or fourteen thousand Czechoslovaks from Vladivostok are fighting the Bolsheviks at Chabarovsk, on the transSiberian railway, 350 miles north of Vladivostok. They occupied Spasskaia after a stubborn fight, and propose to link up with the Czccho-Slovaks from Irkutsk. There are 47,000 Bolsheviks and ex-prisoners between Khabarovsk and Irkutsk. A. and N.Z. AMSTERDAM, July 21. A report from Moscow states that the Czechoslovaks havo captured Firsk, in the Ural district, 200 miles south of Perm. (Recti. 7.35 p.m.) PEKIN, July If.—Delayed. The Czecho-Slovak forces havo occupied Klutshevsk, in tho south-west Transbaikal. The Bolsheviks are concentrating at Verhenndinsk. General Semenoff, the anti-Bolshevik leader, has occupied Sharasun.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16909, 23 July 1918, Page 5
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