Russia
ALEXIFF'S OFFENSIVE.
GERMAN TROOPS ON THE MOVE.
Press Association—Copyright, Außtra* lian and N.Z. Cable AttßOciation. Amsterdam, September 18.
Moscow reports that General Alexieff has taken the offensive against the Bolsheviks near Blagovestchensk, with considerable Cossack forces and a strong detachment of White Guards. It is reported that a strong representative government has been established at Omsk, and that Central and West Siberia are now free from Bolshevik and war prisoner danger. Comparative calm prevails. The Rus-so-German front has been re-estab-lished on the line of the Don territory, Sarataff, Samara, Penan and Vologda. The Germans are moving up troops from the occupied territory. It is urged that the Allies should despatch troops to the Ural region before Germany anticipates them.
BOLSHEVIK OUTRAGES.
Press Association—Oopyrignt, Austra
lian and N.Z. Cable Association
London, September 17
The Labor Conference official Russian delegates, delayed at Stockholm, have telegraphed referring to the sanguinary Bolshevik orgies and the unspeakable suffering of the people, and appealing to the Western proletariat to send a commission to investigate the Soviet Government's policy and the attitude of the people thereanent. ■
Replying to neutral diplomatists' protest against the Bolshevik terrorism. Tchieherin indignantly resents their action. He adds: "I will regard future interference as an attempt to support a counter-revolution." jOarlo Ignatius, representative £f fiie Finnish Government, has returnid from a visit to America, and reports; that the American Government refuses to recognise Finnish independence or send food' to Finland until all German soldiers leave.
THE POSITION IN MOSCOW.
ITALIANS FORCE p. OUT.
Press Association—Copyright, Austr > Han and N.Z. Cable Association (Received 10.5 a.m.) , t ~, , Rome, September 18. ' Tlie! italian Consul, at Moscow and four- hundred .Italians forced to leave [the city and seek refuge northwards.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 46, 19 September 1918, Page 5
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