RUSSIAN PROBLEM. BOLSHEVIKS IN SIBERIA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16036, 29 January 1920, Page 5

RUSSIAN PROBLEM.

BOLSHEVIKS IN SIBERIA.

(Times.) Received January 29, 9 a.m. LONBON, January 27. Air V'ilton writes from Vladivostock that the Bolsheviks are superseding the social revolutionaries everywhere in West Baikal as soon as the Allied troops depart. The Czechs have been waiting for a chance against Koltchak, whose regime they disliked. They attacked and disarmed Somenoftis forces sent to relievo Irkutsk. Semenoff remains at Chita like a cork tossed on the waves. He has proclaimed himself supreme ruler of Eastern Russia.

FIGHTING IN NORTH RUSSIA

FINNS ATTACKING MONASTERY,

(Reuter.) Received .January 29, 9 a.m. LONDON, January 28. Advices from North Russia, state that a North Russian communique says that two thousand Finns with machine-guns, horse and reindeer transport are attacking the famous monastery at Petchenga with the evident intention of looting great treasures. The inhabitants of neighbouring villages arc feeling panic-stricken.