Evening star., 1918-07-14
Trotzky Blan1es Allies.
Mosco1u Reuolf Is
Not Crushed.
German Newspapers See
Danger to Teutons and
Souiet Government.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PEKING, Monday. July 8.
-Czecho-S -Slovak forces which
captured Nikolsk, northwest
of Vladivostok, are now
closely pursuing the bolshe-
vik troops, which are retreat
ing toward Khabarovsk. The
Czecho-Slovaks are receiving
assistance from a force of
1,5OO Cossacks and a number
of Chinese and japanese vol
unteers. Railway and tele-
graph communications have
been opened with Vladivostok.
HARDIN, Manchuria, Mon
. day, July 8.-Czecho-Slovak
forces have defeated the Rus
sian bolsheviki near Chita, a
town on the Transsiberian
railway in the center of
Transbaikalia.
Gen. Norvath and other
members of the Siberian gov
ernment left Harbin today for
Nikolsk to open negotiations
for an alliance with the
Czecho-S -Slovaks.
By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, July IS, via Am
sterdam.-Speaking at the all
Russian soviet conference, now
in session here, Leon Trotzky,
the bolshevik minister of war
and marine, declared that he had
received news from the front
that unity among the soviet
. troops had suffered as the result
of Anglo-French propaganda.
Part of the bolshevik force, the
minister added, had deserted to
the enemy"
COPENHAGEN, July ia
few days ago the Tidens Tegn
says it learns from Vardoe 2,OOC
Russian bolshevik troops ar
rived at Murman, on the Arctic
coast. Counter revolutionaries
knew of the intended arrival OF
the bolsheviki and surrounded
and disarmed them. Later the
Russian government soldiers
were allowed to return to Mos
cow.
Revolt Not Curbed.
AMSTERDAM. July 1a-The revo.
1utionary movement in Moscow
against tho bolsheviki does not ap-
ing to the Kiev correspondent of the
Rheinische Westfaelische Zeitung OF
Essen. The bolsheviki are only able
to hold their own through the as.
sistance of Lettish guards, he de.
clares. ....
Light on Mirbach Killing.
Assassination of Count Won Mtrbach
tho German ambassador at Moscow
social revolutionaries Of the left and
was carried out in person by one OF
the party's confidential agents, says q
Kiev dispatch to the Rheinische West.
faelische Zeitung Of Essen. This agent
whose name is known, the CORE
spondent declares. wrote tho docu-
ments which gained the assassin's en-
trance to Won ,Mirbach's quarters. and
himself performed the acts of terror.
ism which the party had ordered.
Germans Show Anxiety.
LONDON. July 1s.-In an editorial
in its issue Of July 8. which displays
anxiety over developments In Russia,
the Frankfurter Zeitung infers that
tho successes Of the Czecho-Slovaks
have overcome the objections Of the
entente to Intervention, and 1t refers
to ''the undertaking which England
Is preparing from tho north against
the heart of European Russia" az
more serious than the attack which II
assumes the Japanese will deliver
from tho east The newspaper thinks
that tho Moscow soviet government
is faced with Immediate peril. and II
dwells upon the successes Of the
Czecho-Slovaks, with whom. 1t says
the entente seems already to have es-
tablished connection
Sees Difficult Task.
Assuming that the entente expects
to compel Germany "to strengthen its
protection" in the east. the newspaper
confinuea.