RUSSIAN SITUATION.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16035, 28 January 1920, Page 5

RUSSIAN SITUATION.

SOVIET RULE.

SUNDAYS TO BE INCLUDED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received January 28, 10.30 a.m. LONDON, January 27. A Bolshevist wireless states that the Soviet Government has decreed a 12hour day for workers, including Sunday, instead of six, as hitherto. A number of Red deputies from America were put to work immediately on arrival.

The wireless claims that a peasant corp has reached the Chinese frontier.

ALLIED MISSION IN SIBERIA

EXCITING TIME AT IRKUTSK

(Times.) Received January 28, 9.50 a.m. PARIS, January 27

While Allied mission trains were lying at Irkutsk station negotiating a passage through to the coast, three of Semenoff’s armoured trains arrived. A regular battle followed. The revolutionaries sent empty engines racing down the line. Two of Semenoff’s trains were wrecked, and some of the Allied misskmers were wounded by flying bullets and shrapel. A battalion of Japanese rescued the missions. The Czech officers have lost control of their men, who are showing sympathy with the Reds. Workmen in East Siberia are everywhere notoriously Bolshevik. The rolling stock of the trains is falling to pieces.