RUSSIAN CRISIS

Southland Times, Issue 17877, 5 September 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN CRISIS

GENERAL ALLIED ADVANCE. ON THE USURI FRONT, j (By Telegraph—Press Assn. Copyright.) { (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) | LONDON, September 3. | Received September 4, 7.30 p.m. It is officially announced from Pekin that the Japanese division is moving towards the Usuri. A general advance began on Monday. A Tokio message adds that the Japanese cavalry captured Usuri bridge. ALLIES PUSHING ON. ARMOURED TRAIN GUNS EFFECTIVE. LONDON, .September 3. .Received September 4. 7.30 p.m. British Russia official: The Allies, including the Russian troops, captured on the 31st August, a position northward of Oberzerskaya, 75 miles southward of Archangel. We repulsed a counter attack with heavy' losses. We are pushing on to Oberzerskaya. Our armoured train guns are very effective in this fighting. ARRIVAL OF ITALIAN CONTINGENT. (United Service.) LONDON, September 3. Received September 4, 7.30 p.m. The Daily Mail's Tientsin correspondent states that the Italian troops arrived at a ' northern point en route to Siberia. FRENCH WARNING. TREATMENT OF ALLIED SUBJECTS. PARIS, September 3. Received September 4, 7.30 p.m. M. Pichon informed the Russian Government that rigorous reprisals will be taken against prominent Bolsheviks in Allied countries if the Allied subjects in Russia are not liberated and their departure facilitated. THE SHOOTING OF LENIN. EXODUS FROM MOSCOW. (Reuter’s Telegrams.) COPENHAGEN, September 3. Received September 4, 730 p.m. The Hamburger Fremdenblatt reports that Lenin was wounded with poisoned explosive bullets, of which the full effects have not yet developed. Thousands of persons have moved from Moscow to Petrograd'. The authorities warn persons carrying weapons that they will be immediately killed, and that antiGovernment agitators will be interned and their property will be confiscated. BOLSHEVIKS SEARCH ROUSES. BRITISH EMBASSY OCCUPIED. PETROGRAD, September 3. Received September 4, 7.30 p.m. The newspaper Pravada states that after the murder of the Commissioner of Home Affairs, who was in company with Lenin when the latter was shot, the authorities ordered a general examination of all bouses in Petrograd. The British Embassy was searched, and several shots were fired therein. One Englishman, also one Bolshevik on the examining committee, and two others were killed. Several arrests were made. The Bolshevik troops occupy the Embassy. Documents, weapons, and food were seized. • The slaughter of thousands of officers in various p~rte of Russia is reported.

THE CZECHO-SLOVAKS. RECOGNISED BY AMERICA. WASHINGTON, September 4. Received Sept. 4, 11.45 p.m. The tlnited States has recognised the Czechoslovaks as a co-belligerent nation warring against Austria-Hungary.