An Important Pronouncement Peking, Aug. 15.
According to Japanese telegrams from Vladivostok, a recent meeting called to elect a new head of Government declared in favour of Imperial Russia, resolving that power to appoint the Chief Executive at Vladivostok lay solely with the Romanoff house. In the absence: of a representative of the former Imperial family, however, it was resolved that General Dieterich should be placed at the head of the Government and ibe latter took the office of Dictator from M. Merkulov on August 8 On August 10 the conference adjourned after appointing an executive council of 40 members and, inter alia, resolving that, all Republicans and Socialists should be expelled from the Maritime Province. M. Merkulov was appointed to represent the new Government at Washington.—Reuter.
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