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Show CONDITIONS IN SIBERIA UNDERGO CHANGE, REPORT VLADIVOSTOK, Monday, July 15 (liy the Associated Press.) The present pres-ent situation in Siberia may be described de-scribed as transitional from Bolshevik regimen to conditions not yet permitting permit-ting an accurate diagnosis. The military mili-tary situation is as follows: "Forty thousand Czechoslovaks hold the trans-Siberian railroad between Samara Sa-mara and IrKutsIt, detachments occupying occupy-ing Tch'diabinsk, Omsk, Novo-Nikoli-evsk, Tomsk and Krasnoyarsk. The Czech-Slovak national council at Vladivostok assumes that the Czechs, co-operating with local bodies have overthrown the Bolshoviki in the aforesaid afore-said places, but details are not available. avail-able. It is presumed that tho Czechs are moving toward Irkutsk, as their rear is secured. , It is estimated that' 500,000 war prisoners pris-oners are distributed throughout Siberia, Sibe-ria, of whom :-!50,000 have voluntarily joined the Bed Guards or become engaged en-gaged in German political propaganda. Of the .U,000 Czechs who reached Vladivostok, Vladi-vostok, 12,000 are engaged in active military operations at Khabarovsk. The Czechs today occupied Spasskaia after overcoming stubborn resistance. The Czechs do not support the self-styled self-styled Siberian government and do rot take offers of assistance from anti-Bolshevik anti-Bolshevik factions. It is believed that the Red Guard . movements arc directed bv officers of the central powers. Many Magvar troops are fighting with the Bolsheviki. |