It was reported on June 15 that the Czechoslovak troops operating
against the Russian Soviet Government in Siberia and the Ural region
continued their successes. During the 9th and 10th of June, having
occupied Samara, they advanced rapidly toward Ouffa.
On the Siberian railroad from Theliabinsk to Tomsk (a distance of
1,250 miles) all the towns were reported to be in the hands of the
Czechoslovaks. Omsk was occupied on June 8 by a united force of Slavs
and Cossack peasants under command of Colonel Ivanoff, the Soviet
forces having retired from Omsk and Tunen.
The new Siberian Government established the Omsk-Nicholaevsk region
notified the Soviet Government at Moscow of the abolition of the
government of soldiers and deputies in Siberia and of the creation
of the new Provisional Government. The notification stated that the
Siberian Government, which is joined by Commander Ivanoff in the
forwarding of communication, does not intend to work for the separation
of Siberia from Russia, and is ready to negotiate for a supply of
provisions to the northern district of Russia.
Should the Council of Commissioners at Moscow, however, attempt to
re-establish the Soviet power in Siberia, it was declared, the Siberian
Government would resist and would discontinue the sending of bread
grains to Northern Russia.