20 JULY 1918, Page 2

It was announced in the papers on Saturday last that

the Allies have landed troops on the Murman coast of Russia, at the request of the inhabitants, and that reinforcements are being sent. It is reported from Moscow that this force, composed of British and American troops, has pushed southward down the Murman Railway to a point beyond Kem on the White Sea. The Czecho-Slovak forces from Western Siberia have captured Kazan on the Volga. Their comrades in Eastern Siberia have occupied the district north and west of Vladivostok, and are advancing towards Irkutsk. It was reported in Sweden at the end of last week that the Bolshevik rulers had decided to retire from Moscow to Murom, a small town a hundred miles to the east, but the rumour is unconfirmed. We discuss the Russian situation elsewhere.