SITUATION IN SIBERIA

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14857, 3 September 1918, Page 5

SITUATION IN SIBERIA

BATTLE ON THE USSORI

ENEMY DRIVEN. BACK

SEMENOFF'S CAMPAIGN.

(Australian and N.Z, Cable Association)

New York, Sept. 1.

The United Press... Vladivostok correspondent states that Entente ami Czccho-Slovak troops fought the Bol-she-viki and Red Guards on the Ussori river and drove the eneniy back fiftee^i miles, taking prisoners and booty.

The "New York Times" V Washington correspondent states that information has been received stating that it is imperative that arms and ammunition be sent the Czecho-Slovaks before win-, tor sets in, six weeks hence. It may be ißeoessary to send an expeditionary fore© through Manchuria, via Khailar an& Turga towards China, and thence along the Siberian railway to Lake Baikal and IrkutsTc

The "New York World's" Washington correspondent states .that official advice-from: Russia states that the flow of Russian recruits to theGermaiuiriny. has ceased since ilie arrival of Entente troops, at Vladivostok, and the spread of Entente propaganda work.

New York press despatches from Archangel state that Nicholas Vassilouitch Tschaikovsky, president of the new Sovereign Government of Northern Russia, has appealed • for" more Allied troops as the nucleus formation of a Russian army to fight the Germans and Bolsheviki. ..

The New- York Times'" Pekin. cor-, respondent states that Semenofr captured Borzie station.

The Bolsheviki are lairning villages and retreating along the Onon river.

The United Press Archangel correspondent says that according to information received by the American Ambassador, Mr Francis, the body of the exEreperor Nicholas was not found when the Czecho-Slovak troops entered Ekaterinbui-g. Nicholas was killed by the commandant when the soldiers refused to- obey the oi"der to shoot him.

The State Department has received despatches from the American Charge d'Affaires at Stockholm, saying that, he has received telegrams from the American Consul-General, Mr Poole, at Moscow, saying that 95 Americans left' Moscow for Pefcrograd. Mr Poole is remaining at Moscow.

CABLE NEWS.

[Press Association—Copybight.]