STRUGGLE FOR SIBERIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16914, 29 July 1918, Page 6

STRUGGLE FOR SIBERIA.

CZECHOSLOVAK PROGRESS. NEW AUTHORITY APPEARS. COSSACKS SUFFER REVERSE. (Received 5.5 p.m.) Router. LONDON, July 26. The Czechs havo made considerable progress from Vladivostok, and are trying to join hands with the Czechs in the west. The forraor have advanced 27 miles from Nikolsk. The Cossack forces under General Somenoff havo retired into Manchuria before strong Bolshevik forces. Tho latter did not attempt to follow them. Advices from Pekin stato that the Provisional Siberian Government at Omsk, in •a proclamation, declares an independent Siberia, annuls all Bolshevik decrees, orders the closing of the Soviets and the restoration of estates to landowners, pending a settlement of the agrarian question by the Constituent Assembly. It requests the Siberian Government at Vladivostok to approve its action. Shanghai messages declare that drastic changes hfcve been effected in the personnel of the Siberian Government. The Cossacks have joined the Czecho-Slovaks, whoso eastern army is preparing to advance on Irkutsk. A. and N.Z MOSCOW, July 26. It is officially stated that the Czechoslovaks, after desperate resistance, captured Simbirsk, on the Volga. The Soviet army abandoned the left bank of the Volga. The Soviet's newspaper Pravha declared that the revolt is spreading like an epidemic, and that Simbirsk's fall increases the danger. The enemy is numerous and well organised. SCOPE OF ALLIED ACTION. COMBINED FORCE OF 60,000.| NEW YORK. July 26. Japan has agreed to intervene in Siberia. The Washington correspondent of the New York World states that America's proposal for the Russian settlement contemplates that 60,000 American, | British. French, and Japanese troops shall ! protect the Economic Mission and ensure orderly, distribution of the mission's supplies. Forty thousand will operate between Vladivostok and Lake Baikal, and 20,000 between Lake Baikal and the Urals. The commander may be selected by the Versailles Council of War, and will probably be, a French general. AMSTERDAM. July 26. The Berlin Mai Anzeiger states that i'he Moscow Government regards the landing of Entente troops at Murman as an • act of war. . Renter. ,i LONDON, July 26. It is officially confirmed that Japan has decided to accept '•■ tho, American proposal to assist the Czechoslovaks in Siberia. NEW REVOLT IN UKRAINE. GREAT PEASANT MOVEMENT GERMANS FORCED TO RETIRE. • . An: -alian and N.Z, Cable Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) PARIS. July 26. | A peasant revolt on a large scale has commenced in the Ukraine. A wellofficered and organised force of 75,000 men las forced German detachments to fall lack upon Kieff. - : ;, -.% — ■-.'. -— ■ * . J RUSSIAN FOOD SUPPLY. POSITION GROWN ACUTE. <Eecd.,s.S p.m.) ' WASHINGTON. July 27, •'Advices received by the State Department show that there is not sufficient food ,in Russia to supply the country's own ? needs. '- .Germany is demanding largo quantities from Russia, and the situation . is acute...;" " i Benter. : .AMSTERDAM, July 26. ' tAn unknown band entered the residence ' at Ekaterinburg of the three Grand Dukes Igor Constantino, Ivor Constantinovitch, ' and, Senge Michaelovitcb, and carried ' them oft ■ , ' ( Lenin, in a speech in Moscow, said that tho position of the Republic was 1 acute owing to international complications, i It was easy for Russia to.begin.the revo- . iution, but it was extraordinarily difficult , to continue and conclude it. United action by the workers of the entire world was essential to the victory of tie Russian revolution, v ,- .-