The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-07-12
ALLIES DEFENDING
THE HURAAN COAST
RAILROADS AND ICE FREE PORT
OF KOLA BEING PROTECTED
FROM EOLSHEVif<i.
SIBERIA WANTS TO FIGHT
New Provisional Government Would
Continue War On Central Powers
czech-slovak Troops Want To
Fiehs On West Front.

London. Measures taken by the al
lies to a.d non-Bolshevik Russians on
the Thurman coast and protecting the
MurmaA railroad and the ice free port
of Koia are summarized by the Daily
Express from Rus5lan newspapers,
While the Boishe1ki opposed the
landing Of allied troops, and even
agreed To trade the Thurman coast 20
Finland, the local population has de-
cided to join the allies and secede
from the BolshevIki.
The first allied intervention oc-
CURED early IN April, when Finnish
White Guards, assisted by Germans,
faced the Red Guards at KEN. The
RED Guards We're reinforced by an An
glo-French detachment that had come
up or an armored train The next
Russian report mentions the landing
of a force OF British marines TO CO
operate IN the defense Of the coast.
Defensive measures were said to be
under the leadership of three men, a
Russian. q Britain ana d Frenchman.
Two British and one French war
ship ana some British trawIers were
in the harbor OF Ko.a in addition to a
Russisn squadron. A report rom The
committee OF the White Sea feet %
the Russian naval commissioner in
Moscow, printed in a Russian paper,
said that Kemp assumed to be Rear
Admiral Kemp of The British nayyl
had decided that there was no aggres-
siye design regarding the Murman5k
region, only desire TO help the Rus.
sian republic and protect the coast
and the railroad lie also offered 10
assist in developing the local fisheries.
A dispatch TO the Daily Mail from
Copenhagen. quotes German papers
as saying that there are 25,000 Bolshe-
vik troops left on Kola Peninsula.
A new provisional government for
Siberia, which has the unanimous sup
port OF the population and which will
continue to fight the central powers,
has been established at Vladiyostok.
According to a Times dispatch from
Tokyo. quoting the Vladivostok CORE
spondent of the Asahi, the new gov
eminent intends to summons con-
stituent assembly and to restore law
and order throughout the country.
The programme OF the new govern.
ment includes the liberation of Sibe
ria from the Bolsheyik; the avoidance,
il possible. or foreign Intervention;
universal suffrage; establishment of
provincial councils and a labor bu-
eau; distribution Of the land among
the landless, and control of economic
activities.
Siberia will thus, adds the CORE
spondent of the Times, becomes the
first democratic state in the history
of Russia, and, 1t is hoped, be the
forerunner of a great Russia
The flag adopted by the new gov
eminent consists of two stripes of
white and green.
Czech-Slovak troops now operating
In Russia desire to fight on the west
ern front and do not want to be mixed
up in Russia internal affairs. A mem
orand,m to this effect has been pre-
scented to the Japanese foreign minis
ter and the allied ambassadors in
Tokyo by Col Vladimir Hurban on
behalf of the Czecho-Slova Irrational
council, says the correspondent of the
Times at the Japanese capital.