RUSSIA'S PROBLEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17402, 24 August 1918, Page 7

RUSSIA'S PROBLEMS

FIRST JAPANESE REPORT.

SOMETHING ABOUT THE ENEMY.

Atutraliim and N.Z. Cable Atsooiaiioo. TOKIO, August 22. The Japanese War Office has announced that the enemy force eastward of Simacov now numbers 80,000. The enemy are arming rafts with machine-guns in the Ussun River (north of Vladivostock). Four enemy steamers are on Lake Khanka, apparently intended to land men at Spaskaya, near the source of the Ussuri River, 30 miles from the Japanese front line, which will necessitate the withdrawal of the Japanese right wing.

. There are about 17,000 enemy troops m the Amur region, 80,000 in the Lake Baikal region, and 3500 in the Urals.

BOLSHEVISTS' WAR DECLARATION.

AMERICA TAKES IT SERIOUSLY,

_ WASHINGTON, August 22. Owing to the Bolshevists' declaration of war against the Allies, the United States has handed over to Norway the charge of tier diplomatic affairs at Pefcrograd.

ARRESTS BY SOVIETS.

AMONG THE UPPER GLASSES,

COPENHAGEN, August 22. The Frankfort Gazette savs that the Soviet Government has arrested 15,000 officers at Moscow, who will be held as hostages.- Altogether about 50,000 officers have been arrested throughout Russia. great number of the upper classes in Moscow have also been arrested, on the ground that this step is necessary in order to suppress the counter-revolution.

JAPANESE RICE feIOTS RETALIATION FOR INTERVENTION,

OTTAWA, August 22. (Received Aug. 24, at 1.10 a.m.) The Chicago News Kobe correspondent states : It is believed that the rice riots were directed by unscrupulous politicians as a retaliation for the Government's intervention in Siberia. CZECHO-SLOVAKS HANGED. RED GUARD COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF CAPTURED. HANDED OYER TO BRITISH. Reuter's Telegrams. AMSTERDAM, August 23. (Received Aug. 24, at 1.30 a.m.) According to a German source, the Red Guards, upon capturing Simbrisk, publicly hanged in the market place 300 Czecho-Slovaks.

The Weser Zeitung learns from Archangel that General Petapoff, Commander-in-chief of the Red Guards army in Murman, was caught by peasants when fleeing, and was handed over to the British.