Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-10
REDULTIMATUM
HURLED AT JAPAN
PREMIER Lenine Sends Final
Word to Nipponese Con.
sui at Moscow
EXPEDITION TOO SMALL
By the Associated Press

's'"h'h, aug w.
A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
from Copenhagen says the Petrograd
newspaper Pravda organ of the Bolshe-
wiki. announces that following a stormy
meeting of the workmcns and soldiers
deputies Nikolai Lenine Rolshevik pre-
mier. sent an ultimatum to Japan con-
cerning Japan's Intervention in Siberia.
The newspaper adds that the ultimatum
was handed to the Japanese consul at
Moscow.
The forces the Allies purpose sending
to help the Czecho- o-Slovaks in Siberia
are pitifully inadequate. and an attempt
to accomplish the task with them would
only be courting disaster. says the Daily
Mails correspondent at Vladivostok,
telegraphing on Tuesday.
Doctor Girha the head of the Czecho-
Slovak organization in Vladivostok, Is
quoted by the correspondent as saying:
Our numbers are being depleted by
constant fighting and sickness while
we are waiting for re-cnforcements, and
every days delay is to the advantage of
the other side. Poorly armed and with
out cartridges, the CzeCho-Slovaks are
awaiting sucCor in the period of six
weeks before winter. IF they are not
relieved by that time they will certainly
perish.
"Our force in Vladivostok is without
artillery. cavalry, a'rplanes. grenades or
proper clothing, while the enemy has all
these. The longer the Allies delay, the
more we dwindle. We have made these
facts plain in many kilograms. and you
see the result. Two operations are
necessary. but the force coming is bare
ly sufficient for one"
The correspondent says the negotia-
tions between General Horvath and the
Siberian Government are reported to be
going well General Horvath. at the
instance of the Allies. has agreed to
send away his armed escort. from
which there was n possibility of trouble.
Robert II. B. I.ockhart, British un.
official envoy to Russia and formerly
consul general at Moscow. has been ar
rested by the Bolshevild in Moscow, ac-
cording to reports received here, creating
a situation of intense gravity.
In reprisal for the arrest of Mr..
Lockhart, NJ. Litinoff. the Bolshevik
under police supervision, the Daily Mail
states.
will Take no Steps
Mr.. LoCkhart is a British consular
agent who was sent to Moscow some
time ago to maintain unofficial relations
with the Bolsheviki There have been
no reports that any of those under ar
rest have been harmed
Lord Robert Cecil, Under Secretary Of
State for Foreign Affairs. commenting
on the situation, said: IF there was an
organized government in Moscow OF
course it would mean war. But as there
is no real government, no immediate
steps will be taken affecting the Bolshe-
Wiki"
The semiorcial BolsheviN organ,
Izvestia, according to the Frankfort Zei-
tung. reports the arrest of prominent
British and French civilians of the Boil
shevki. French and Siberian officers
also have been seized by the Bolsheviki.
SOviets Claim Victory
The message says on the Czecho- -Slo.
yak front the Soviet troops won a great
victory by occupying the towns of Syz-
ran AMI Nugu'ma in the Simbirsk Sa-
mara region. 1t claims the city of STAY
ropol. in Ciscaucasia. is on the eve of
falling to the Soviet troops and the
Czecho- -Slovaks are fleeing in disorder
from that region. On the eastern sector,
it is said, the Czecho-SlOvaks are re-
treating before the Soviet troops
1T is not true that we have actually
declared war on Great Britain. but our
troops are fighting against the British in
vaders, and a declaration of war scarce
ly can be avoided" is the statement as
cribed to NJ. Joffe, the Bolshevik ambas-
sador at Berlin, by the Amsterdam cor
respondent of the Daily Express The
German newspapers, it is added, well
come this "momentous step" and pre-
dict that Great Britain will be sorry
some day"