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UNCONFIRMED REPORTS SAY BOLSHEVIKI OVERTHROWN === New Bond Issue of TROOPS REBEL in TWO CITIES of $8,000,000,000 in Ü.S WEATHER FORECASTS WHERE TO GO TO-NIGHT For SI hour* ending S p. m Saturday: Paata -Vaudeville. Victoria and vicinity—Light to moder­ ate wind*, continued fine and moderately Dominion—Charlie Chaplin Romano—Franklyn Farnum Lower Mainland—Light to moderate wind*, continued fine and moderately Royal Victoria—Marguerite Clark. Columbia—W dm an hood [VOL. 52. NO. 157 [VICTORIA, B. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1918 tw EIGHTEEN PAGES UNCONFIRMED REPORTS SAY BOLSHEVIKI OVERTHROWN === New Bond Issue of TROOPS REBEL IN TWO CITIES OF $8,000,000,000 in Ü.S. REPORTS COMING VIA COPENHAGEN HUNGARY AS SPIRIT OF REVOLT Approved by House SAY LENINE’S GOVERNMENT OUSTED Washington, Jdne 28 —Without a dissenting vote and with virtually no debate, tne House to-day passed the bill authorising an additional bond SPREADS IN THE DUAL MONARCHY Issue of 8t.090.000.000. AND MOSCOW TAKEN BY KORNILOFF Government of U. S. 2,000 Soldiers Who Mutinied at Gyor and Pecs Con­ FRENCH TROOPS MAKE GAIN Grand Duke Nicholas Is Said to Have Been Proclaim­ demned to Death, Says Report; Violent Demon­ Choosing Commission ed Emperor of Russia and Lenine and Trotzky in strations in Numerous Cities; Army Affected IN A WOOD SOUTHEAST OF to Aid the Russians Flight; London Receives Rumors With Reserve Washington, June 28.—Plans Lead** Jtuw 28.—According to unconfirmed-Yeports to-day the Psris, June 28.—There have been rebellions outbreak* among the for sending a commission to Rus­ AMIENS, TAKING 100 MEN Bolshevilti Government at Moscow has been overthrown, says a dis­ garrisons of the cities of Oyor and Pecs, Hungary, as a result of which sia to assist that country eco­ patch to the Exchange Telegraph Company from Copenhagen. 2,000 of the military involved in the mutinies have been condemned to nomically and industrially have Pari*. June 28.—French troops laat night carried out an oper­ Moscow, the report adds, has been captured by General Korniloff, death, according to a report received by The Matin to-day. ation on the front southeast of Amiena, by means of which their line advanced to the point where it is supported by German troops. General Kaledinas is said to have- co­ Both Austria and Hungary are affected by the revolutionary waa advanced in Senecat Wood, on the Avre River, the War Office possible to announce on official movement, which is said to be in progress on a large scale in Austria, announced thia afternoon. In this action and in other fighting be­ authority that the personnel of the operated. the newspaper’s advices declare. The spirit of revolt is said to be tween the Marne and the Ourcq, south of Dammard, prisoners to the commission is now being dis­ Advices from the same sources assert that Grand Duke Nicholas strongly pervasive in the army.- number of 122 were takeiL._ cussed. has been proclaimed Emperor. Nikolai Lenine. the Bolaheviki Pre­ The text of the statement follows : mier, and Leon Trotsky, Minister of War, are said to have fled to the Violent demonstrations are reported to have taken place in nu­ "Northwest of Montdldler troops advanced their line in Senecat Murman coast. merous cities. Wood and captured 100 prisoners. “Between the Marne and the Ourcq a The Copenhagen newspapers, the dispatch says, give prominence Pecs is the Hungarian name for the city of Funfkehcn, 106 miles local operation was carried out south of VIKUEHLMANNS VERY SMALL BILLOT to a Berlin dispatch quoting The Berlin Tages Zeitung as saying it Dammard, our troops taking twenty- southwest of Budapest The city has s two prisoners. had received a message from its Petrograd correspondent reading population of about 45,000. "The night was calm on the rest of Oyor, more commonly known the front" as follows; Raab, is a city of about 28.000. and la British Report RESIGNATION GIVEN UP TO ONE O'CLOCK "It Is believed here In Petrograd that sixty-seven miles northwest of Buda- IE London. June 28.—Considerable artil­ the Bolshevlkl Government will soon be lery activity developed last night on Attitude of Sts tes. both sides in the region southeast of overthrown and that Kerensky Is the Washington, June 28.—German and Gommecourt, southwest of Arras, the Less Than Two Thousand Had man of the future In Russia" Austrian propaganda representing the Reported to Have Been Offered TCHITCHERIN SAYS War Office announced to-day. British The advices declare that the sup­ United States Government as favoring patrols inflicted casualties upon the Polled; Preponderance porters of Grand Duke Nicholas have the freedom of Poland without regard Wednesday; Probably Will Germans in clashes In this area. overthrown the Soviets throughout the for what hapi>ens to the Csecho- British troops carried out a success­ Be Accepted of Women Rlovaks and the Jugo-Slavs generally, ful raid yesterday near Mericourt, Siberian Provinces of Irkutsk. Kha­ led Secretary Lansing to Issue a state­ Several Deputy Registrars1 Of­ northeast of Amiens. An attempted raid EX-CZAR KILLED barovsk and Blagovleschenek. ment to-day definitely announcing that by German troupe near Mertnnevllle. The defeat of the Bolaheviki is sal* the position of the American Govern­ south of Arras^ was driven off with ment Is that all branches of the Slav ficers Were Looted and Paris. June 28.—Dr. von Kuehlmann At one o’clock to-day less than two to have been made poelble by the vic­ loes to the enemy. tories of the Cxecho-Slovak forces and rgee should be completely freed from The text of the statement follows: offered his resignation as German thousand voters had marked ballots, Bolshevik! Foreign Minister German and Austrian rule. Records Destroyed the treachery of the Red Guards. Sev­ "A raid attempted by enemy troops Foreign Secretary on Wednesday, says but with that number recorded Lib­ eral detachments of the latter are de­ Wednesday night against one of our erals. Returned Soldiers, and Conserva­ Quoted as Stating Nicholas a Zurich dispatch to The Journal. The clared to have murdered their officers posts in the neighborhood of Merinne- tives were equally certain of sufficient Romanoff Assassinated and then surrendered. r vllle, south of Arras, was repulsed with dispatch adds that It is believed the margin to ensure victory. Very little The Exchange Telegraph publishes Quebee, June 2*.—Evidence e# a loss. Kaiser will accept the resignation. claim appears to be held by the sup­ its message containing the report of the EVEN DETAILS ARE eeriee of daring raide en and looting of Daylight Raid. Hertiiitg at Headquarters. porters of the Independent So Bolshevlkl overthrow and the accom­ a number of efficee of deputy registrar, "A part of our troops carried out a Copenhagen. June 28.—Count von panying details "with reserve.” and under the Military Service Act In rural successful daylight raid yesterday near Hertllng. the German Chancellor, paid that Mr. McDonald has other than an Paris, June 28.—The court mar points out, that the information eman­ Mericourt. capturing a few prisoners "also ran" chance. The lunch hour Quebec reached this city te-dey. At a visit to-day to Germany army head­ ates mostly from German sources and without suffering casualties. quarters to attend an Important con­ rush, expected at all polling stations, tial at Darmstadt, Germany, has therefore should be received with cau­ KNOWN BY WILSON St. Luce da Betugard, Mentmagny "During the night our own and the materialised at i.'a* and the slow, ference. according to The Berlin Vos- received a telegram "from M. Tchit- tion. County, an Wcdneeday the deputy enemy's artillery was active in the sische Zeilung. steady stream of voters which char -fft-, under the direct**» flSiÜBneighborhood * of‘ ~Rossignol • Wood. acterlsed the morning hours was main­ London, June 28 —Dispatches from -regi.tr,r1, •ffice. under tne a rec* aou<&ea*t Df Commeeourt. Casualties Long War Idea. tained between twelve and one o’clock. cherin, announcing that Nicholas of J. A. L. Rodrigue, wee leetet Copenhagen to-day carry unconfirmed So Deadly in* Earnest About were inflicted upon the enemy in thie London. June 28.—Dr. von Kuehl­ At Wards Three ami Five polling dtomanoff, former Russian Em reports of the overthrow of'the Bolshe­ the carde that had been filled in neighborhood by our patrol»." mann. the Oermarf Foreign Secretary, booths there had been a preponder­ ppror, has been assassinated, says vik! Government at Moscow. ' War His Efforts Are destroyed in a large bonfire In the Lull Continuée. replying to criticism during the course ance of women voters and at the other The reports, which are received with etreet. At Hoaquam the deputy regis­ London. June W.—There are a» yet of yesterday’s debate in the Reichstag, three étalons the coming and going of a dispatch to The Matin from caution here because of their origin Unbounded the members of the fair sex was to lie trar-* office, under Erneat Lallberte. no outward indications as to when and said ; noted throughout the morning This Berne. The assassination took in German sources, state that Generals auffered the name fate. In Beau ce where the German command will “Once legends have arisen they are Is the happy augury which gives the Korniloff and Kaiedlnes led the anti- ounty. at St. Kgldeon. 8t latdger and launch its next effort against the Al­ difficult to destroy, hut I must declare, supporters of ex-Private Uiolma high place between Ekaterinburg and Perm. Soviet forces which took Moscow. They Stou Francis, the deputy reglatrar-o of lied lines. The fighting lull on the with a view to counter-attacking the hopes that their man will top the poll add that Grand Duke Nicholas, a cou­ Chicago, June 28.—An intimate pic­ Western front continues; with only growth of a legend, that there can be flees also were looted, but It was not when the ballots come to be counted The dispatch from Berne gives sin of the former Emperor and Com- ture of President Wilson's familiarity known when the reports were sent raids and local attacks, while on the no question of my having bound my* this evening.
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