SITUATION IN SIBERIA.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14864, 11 September 1918, Page 5

SITUATION IN SIBERIA.

ADVANCE OF THE JAPANESE

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

New York, Sept. 9

A United Press message from Vladivostok reports that Japanese cavalry occupied Ivan, on the Ussori front.

The United Press correspondent at Pekin states that Semenoff, on the Manchurlan front, has reached the fortifications of Borgia, on the Trans-Si-berian railway, south-east of Tchita. Japanese cavalry aiding Somenoff captured 100 of the enemy.

The correspondent adds that advices from Harbin state that Bolsheviki •troops destroyed the Trans-Siberian railway west of Laura. The United Press' Shanghai correspondent reports that Khabarovsk, in Siberia, has been captured by Japanese troops, according to despatches from Vladivostok.