Peking, June 9.
Renter's Agency has received the fifth report from the Manchurian Siberian Zone. It is from Oloviannaya, Transbaikalia, 213 versts from Manchuria, and dated May 26. It is too long to publish in full but a few paragraphs are taken, shedding light on Ataman Simionov's warlike actions in the region of the proposed Buffer State. As a telegram has been received that the writer has now safely crossed back into Chinese territory, his identity. can be disclosed. He is Mr. E. Lenox-Simpson, now attached to the political section of the Chinese Administration in Northern Manchuria.
veen Manchuli and Daouria, reached after a three hours' ride, there are practically no military to be met with. Daouria, when wwe arrived, presented a_ very busy scene, for the last of Simionov's troops stationed there were busy preparing to entrain, General Baron Unger von Sternberg who has been in command of Simionov's troops here for a year or niore, and whose excesses surpass those of the Bolsheviks, had left two days previously with his entire staff and some' 3,000 troops for the station Haidoboulak situated between Borzia and Oloviannaya. From here he is making (together with some Japanese units stated to be about 2,000 strong) an expedition inland, westwards of Haidoboulak. against a strong force of partisan Reds who are _operating on an extensive scale in. that neighbourhood.
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