A telegraphic communication from Vladivostok, dated the instant, siates it is officially announced that the Japanese have occupied the town of Alexandrovsk situated in the north of Saghalien Island as well as the radio station there. The Japanese admit that on the 24th instant Habarovsk was still in the hands of the Reds.
According to news from Soviet sources the railway bridges between Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk are very nearly completely restored and within the next few days ordinary traffic between Irkutsk and Moscow will be resumed. At Omsk the epidemic of typhus is rapidly being stamped out, there being now no fresh cases.
A telegram from Chita, dated the 27th instant, announces that Ataman Simionov has_ issued a! decree making General Lochvitsky commander-in-chief of the entire Russian Far Eastern forces vice General Voitzehovsky. The - new army that has been formed by Simionov and placed under Lochvitsky's command is the Ist Transbaikal Army Corps and the 2nd and 3rd Rifles Corps. General Voitzehovsky is to be attached to General Denikin's Army.
The whole of th 14th Japanese di moved further up into Siberia and their place taken by new Japanese troops some of which have already arrived at Vladivostok. At the latter port has alrendy arrived a special Japanese railway battalion to take over the work of those Russians who have gone on strike.
The Assistant-in-Charge of the Chinese Custom House at station Manchuli has lodged a complaint against the Japancee military authorities who are interfering with the duties of the Customs officers and obstructing them to examine the goods and effects of persons arriving from across the frontier.
The Canadian Red Cross train that passed through Harbin about Easter Week en route for European Russia has now returned, Colonel Young who is in charge of the. train finding it impossible to go further than Chita owing to the fighting along the western section of the Transbaikal Railway. The medicines, etc., carried in the train, were distributed—gratis among the poor Russian population residing in Transbaikalia.
Harbin has become the haven of all classes of criminals arriving from different parts of Siberia and Russia. These men perceiving that the secret police and C. I. D. are no longer functioning in the usual manner and are now very much understaffed. do not" hesitate to organize well laid plots in. which they run but small risk of being caught and which bring them big returns.
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