Evening star., 1918-08-26
FORCE BOLSHEV|KI
TO GIVE Up KAzAN
czecho. .Slovak and Anti-BoI-
shevik Troops Occupy Town
on River VoIga.
EXECUTE REvOL LUTIONISTS
BY the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM. August 25.-Czecho-
Slovak and anti-bolshevik forces
have reoccupied the town of Kazan,
on the River Volga. says a Moscow
dispatch to the Weser Zeitung of
Bremen. The bolshekiki were forced
to retreat after heavy fighting. The
bolsheviki now hold positions some
distance from Kazan.
A Moscow telegram giving a state
the soviet troops had been forced to
retro in the region Of Trostjaka in
the direction of Kadilsk, in the
Pyshung district (south of Arch
angeD, but had successes in the
Kazan district.
Japs Force Withdrawal
LONDON. August 2s.-Gen. ssme-
noff's opponents in the trans-Baikal
region have withdrawn as result OF
the arrival of Japanese troops at
Manchuli, according to a Tientsin
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
Company. Only 5000 of the bolshe-
vik troops remain in that region.
japanese troops are completing
their concentration on the Ussuri
front. according to dispatches from
Vladivostok. At Engeneuka sailors
| supported by armored cars attacked
| the bolshevik forces In the face Of
heavy artillery fire and routed them.
The strike at Vladivostok is ter
minating in flasco as striking labor
| ers have been paid of and Chinese
| substituted for them. At the arsenal
shops serious clash between strik-
ers and non-strikers occurred. but
patch says that the bolshevik agi-
tation among various elements OF
workmen is subsiding.
1t is reported that Americans have
privately loaned the city Of Vladi-
vostok 3.500.000 rubles. taking the
tramways as security.
AlexieR Directed Move.
The big counter revolutionary
movement which recently broke out
in Moscow was organised to prevent
the dispatch Of troops to the Czecho-
Slovak 'front.' according to the boil
shevik newspaper Isvestia Of Mos
COW. The movement, the newspaper
adds. was directed by Gen. Alexieff,
former chief of the
Russian army. Eight leaders of the
counter revolutionary, including the
sixth rifle regiment. were arrested
and executed.
Moscow newspapers report eevo-
lutionary movements in the provinces
of Vologda. Vladimir. Vyatka and orel
repulsed. At Dinni. in orel, 800 white
guards were killed. At Petrograd
twenty persons. including the officers
OF Krasnoye-Selo regiment. were
executed. Three members Of q foreign
mission also were put to death.
The Russian newspaper Pravda de-
mands the arrest Of the entire bouf-
geoisie.
Trotzky Calls It Lie.
Leon Trotzky, tho bolshevik min
lister of war and marine. in a proc
lamation published in the Krasnaya
Gazetta, August 20, characterises the
statements that the allied troops were
landed in Siberia to protect the Trans
siberian ALVEY scsy.s &c lie 1esosdinE to
The proclamation of Trotxky follows:
ITO all: When in April preparations
were being made for Japanese land
ing in Vladivostok. the Japanese gem
allies that danger threatened the
Siberian railway from German and
Austrian prisoners. 1 thereupon sent
American and British officers from
Moscow to the Siberian railway, who
were obliged officially to confirm that
all statements regarding the railway
being in danger were idle gossip. This
fact is known to Ambassador Francis.
Now that the Intervention of the al
lies is an accomplished fact the Amer
Japanese lie.
According to the American state
ment the object of the Intervention OF
the allies is to help the Czecho-Slo-
vaks against risines of German and
Austrian prisoners of war. This is a
lie, just as was the Japanese state
ment regarding the menace to the
Siberian railway by the Germans"
Allies Make Denial.
By the Associated Press.
ARCHANGEL. Russia, Thursday
August 22.-An onicial announcement
issued today by the entente allied
governments in the northern region OF
Russia denied the statement recently
made by Lenine and Trotxky. the
bolsheyik premier and war minister,
France and the United States were
enemies Of Russia. The allied military
action, the announcement added, was
aimed at the expulsion Of the Ger
mans from Russian territory and the
suppression by force of arms of the
Brest-Litovsk treaty. The statement
follows:
"Lenine and Trotzky declare that
the British. French and Americans
when disembarked at Archangel are
brigands. and they call upon the Rus
sian proletariat to fight against them
as enemies of Russia who attacked
her without declaration of war. We
declare to all Russian citizens, for
whom the welfare of Russia is dear,
that this is not true. The British,
French and Americans at Archangel
are the allies of Russia. They were
invited to make landing here by the
legitimate government and with the
complete and unanimous agreement
on the part Of the population.
Elect Their Leaders.
'The government Of the northern
region is composed of members Of the
constituent assembly which waa
elected by the whole population Of
the northern border district. Il COM