ESCAPE OF AMERICANS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16950, 9 September 1918, Page 6

ESCAPE OF AMERICANS.

FINNISH PROTECTION.

[Reed. 5.5 p.m.) COPENHAGEN. Sept. 7.

One hundred and ninety-eight members of the American and Italian Legations, and of the staff of the American bank at Moscow, the party including seven ladies, have arrived in Sweden. Their arrest was ordered at the same time as that of the members of the British Legation, but they succeeded in escaping from Moscow to Finland. Tho Russian Government telegraphed, asking that they should be sent back, but this the Finnish Government refused decisively to do.

(Eecd. 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Sept. 6.

The United States Consul has cabled to the State Department from Helsingfors saying that the American Consuls, members of the Allied Mission, and civilian refugees from Russia have arrived safely in Finland.

ARREST OF LITVINOFF.

COMMITTAL TO PRISON.

LONDON. Sept, 6.

Litvinoff, the Bolshevik representative in who was previously confined to his own house, has now been taken to Brixton Prison, with his secretary and military adviser. The police searched the so-called Embassy.

STRUGGLE IN SIBERIA.

iNTI-BOLSHEVIK RISINGS

ADVANCE OF CZECHO-SLAVS

A. and N.Z.

MOSCOW. Sept. 6.

Counter-revolutionaries all over Russia are making attempts against the Soviet representatives. The Soviet Commissioners at Vologda and Irkutsk have been murdered.

Tokio advices state that the Czechoslovak forces, marching east from Lake Baikal, have joined General Semenoff's irregulars, while these forces are also in contact with the Japanese from Vladivostok.

SITUATION AT BAIKAL.

SOVIET FORCE DESTROYED-

WASHINGTON. Sept. 6.

Official advices express the belief that the Czechoslovaks have destroyed the Bolshevik army east of Lake Baikal. The Cossacks are co-operating with the Czecho-Slovaks.

Mr. D. R. Francis, American Ambassador to Russia, who is now at Archangel, has cabled to the State Department that loyal Russians are joining the Czechoslovaks in large numbers.

IRKUTSK TO PEKIN.

COMMUNICATION OPENED.

(Seed. 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Sept. 7.

Official advices from Pekin. say that a telegraph line has been opened between Irkutsk and Pekin, thus re-establishing communication between Eastern and Western Siberia.