Harbin, Jan. 27.
Railway communication with Vladivostok stopped yesterday and though trains from Manchuli arrive and are despatched eastwards they cannot proceed east of Pogranitchnia No mail has been received from Vladivostok for the past two days owing to railway interruption between that town and Nikolsk-Ussurisk. Telegrams received from the last named town state that the P reins of local government have been taken over by social-revolutionists and that most of the troops have gone over to them. So far there has been no bloodshed, but part of the Jaeger Regiment stationed there has fled to the mountains, the remainder joining the insurgents.
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What-has actually happened at Vladivostok is not yet clear except that the power of the Koltchak-Simionov group no longer exists. The social-revolutionists have now carried the day there without fighting, though it is reported that there have been some skirmishes between Allied troops who are keeping order in the city and some Russian troops. The attitude of the population in both cities is passive and as the Whites have very few available troops on_ the spot at these towns, serious fighting is not likely to occur. The Allies are letting things take their course and simply protecting human life and the property of non-combat ants.. The railwaymen of course have joined the Reds: hence it is the railway service is temporarily suspended, in order not to allow passage for the arrival of White reinforcements.
It is reported that the Reds have offered General Rozanoff the comissarship of Vladivostok, for they realize it is necessary to have at {the head of affairs, until the Allied troops depart, someone who is known and well liked by the Allies.
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