Harbin, March 9.
What will eventually happen at Chita is not yet quite clear, for General Vietdehovsky who "commands the Kappel and other White troops, said now to number some, 8,000 rifles, has not yet publicly expressed himself. General Syrovy is likewise at Chita and the relations between the Czech Commander-in-Chief and Vietzchovsky are said to be of the best.
It is quite possible, as there is also an understanding between Syrovy and the Commander of the Red Regular Army, that something may be arranged by the former so that a clash between the Kappel troops and the Reds who are gradually proceeding eastwards will be averted. It appears that General Vietzehovsky wishes to come into contact with some sort of Government which is not out and out Bolshevik, for he has wired both to the Vladivostok Zemstvo Government and to General Horvath, two widely different elements that is willing to come to some mutual understanding with them.
From latest telegrams that are to hand the avant-guard of the' Red Force under the command of Captain Kalashnikoff are already] at the station Hilok which lies to the cast of Verkne-Udinsk. The latter town fell into the Reds' hands after three hours' fighting with Simionov's savage detachment who Were routed. Among the killed were two Japanese soldiers, which is rather a significant fact seeing the total losses did not exceed more than 20 dead.
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