The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-15
ALLIED FORCES
OCCUPY WHOLE
MURMAN COAST
After Capturing KEN, Troops
Advance Toward TOrOki.
Russian BoIsheviki Leaders
Have Withdrawn Soldiers.
CITY OF KAzAN is CAPTURED
CzechO-Slovak Army Puts TC
ROut Russ.Hun Allies.
Soviet Government To. Move
From Moscow to MurOm.
CITY OF KAzAN is CAPTURED

London, July 15.-American and
British troops have occupied the whole
of the Murman coast, in northern Rus
sia, says dispatch from Moscow TO
the Central News agency by way of
Amsterdam.
After capturing KEN, a railroad
station on the White sea coast, the
dispatch adds, the American and Brit
ish forces advanced toward Toroki, the
Russian Bolsheviki authorities having
withdrawn to Toroki.
The commanders of the entente all
iied FORCES have issued an appeal to
the population on the Murman coast
requesting help against Germany and
Finland 1t is declared that the Muir
man coast is Russian territory under
the protection of the entente powers
AT the express request of the Rus
slams considerable allied forces are
now on the Murman coast which is on
the Arctic ocean to the extreme north
of Russia. On this coast there are
several harbors which are free from
ice all the year round and are con-
nected by rail with Petrograd.
More forces are being sent and the
local population is cooperating with
| the troops which have already ar
rived to defend these railways.
Not Many Americans.
Washington. July 15.-American
| participation in the joint entente oc-
cupation of the Murman coast of
Russia bordering the Arctic ocean, SO
far as known here. is limited to ma
rines and bluejackets, and the number
of these. which is not large, cannot be
definitely stated, according to the
| rules of the censorship.
War department officials said to-
| day no American troops have been
landed on the Murman coast to their
knowledge and that if it should turn
out that such troops had made their
appearance in the neighborhood of
Archangel and Kola, they must have
been dispatched at the suggestion of
General Foch, supreme. commanding
general, from some of the large num-
Der of American troops now in train
ing in English concentration camps.
An official dispatch from Rome
says the entire Italian press comments
upon the presence of allied troops on
the Murman coast and the general
impression is that the occupation will
facilitate an agreement SO that as
sistance to Russia will not be con-
fined to simple protective measures
for the Kola and Archangel railroads.
but will have an international char
acter. having as its aim the complete
restoration of the Russian govern
ment.
Drive Them Back.
KEN is an important port on the
White sea, about 275 miles south of
Kola and 375 miles north of Peiro-
grad. on the railroad connecting those
two cities.
Recent dispatches reported that a
com bined force of Germans and Firms
had reached KEN in their march
against the allies and anti-Bolsheviki
forces in the Murman region. 1t
would appear that this enemy force
either retired before the British or
was driven back in fighting.
Capture City of Kazan.
London, July 15.-Czecho- -Slovak
troops have captured the city of
Kazan, 430 miles east of Moscow, an
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
, Copenhagen says it is reported from
, Moscow. The city was taken after the
Bolsheviki had put up violent resist
ance.
General Alexieff Named.
Amsterdam, July 15.-General
Alexieff, iornAer Russian chief of staff.
has been appointed commander in
/ chief of the anti -Bolsheviki forces, ac-
cording to a Moscow dispatch today.
He arrived at Omsk with large army
and was accorded an enthusiastic re-
ception.
Omsk is in Asiatic Russia, 1,400
miles east of Moscow.
Move Soviet Government.
Stockholm, July 1.-THE Soviet
government is about to be moved from
! Moscow to Murom, according to dis
patches from Moscow.
AS result of insubordination among
Soviet troops, War Minister Trotzky
! has declared a state of war along the
Murman coast and railway.
MUrom is one of the oldest cities
of Russia. 1t is on the Okla river.
IN A SHAKER R0IINn,Ip