Seoul, Jan. 16.
According to advices reaching certain quarters here, considerable reinforcements of Bolshevik troops have reached the border ° districts j between Manchuria and Siberia and they are very active. The number of Bolshevik troops is estimated at about three Soviet divisions and four republican army corps, equipped with arms and ammunition. Moreover there are 70,000 Soviet troops in the Vladivostok district, 35,000 along the railway line—Vladivostok-Nikolsk. 2, 7,000 at Habarovsk and Heiho, 290,000 in the Irchinsk and Manchali -districts, and 23,000 in the Baikal] and Urga districts. They are said to be! equipped with 200 guns and 600, machine-guns.—Reuter.
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