TILE DEBACLE.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16722, 3 January 1920, Page 8

TILE DEBACLE.

PLIGHT OF ANTI-BOLSHEVIKS. (Bt Carls-Trcst A«.»>rntiCTn —CoprTutit.) i .-Vrv:cc.) < LONDON. December 31. The debacle of the anti-Bolshevik threatens to Ire-omo one of the greatc.-t military collapses :n history. Part of General D.'nikin's forces are retreating in poor condition towards Odes-a, whicli civilians arc evacuatingThe rest of the beaten army, which a short time ago c-ontained ~XU\V> bayonets. ;s no-,v hurrying eastwards to the Don Country. I General Denikin and Ins staff have 1 arrived at Taganrog, in tho Sea of! Azov, and are cm board a battleship. ! Admiral Koluhak's plight is worse, j Ife had at least bayonets, but' is now unable even to compose thoj quarrels among his own generals. | Neither General Denikin nor Admiral i Koltchak have succeeded in administer- j ing the territories tb.ey conquered. Risings are rope.ite lly breaking out in the rear of the armies. The' Ukrainian peasants fnare i ("xardoni, while, despite j Admiral Koltchak's White Terror, tlie, Siberians kepi a strong semi-Rolshevik I>arty alive. , PARI>, December 31. | Tho Zurich correspondent of the ''Echo tie Paris" reports that General TVnikin's army is cut in two. i It is reported that one portion lias j been thrown back on Odessa and the otho- is retreating towards the mouth of the T>on. The Supreme Command is now at Taganrog, and has its honlouarters on board a warship in the Black Sea. TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY. Tclcr-nriO f Received January L'ntl, 7.-to p.m.) lA~>NI>UN, January 1. Reports from Irkutsk state that, tho Allied Commissioners and Admiral Koltchak's Government have agreed to entrust the guarding of the trans-Siberian railway to the Czecho-Slovak troops. (Received January 'Jnd, 5.20 p.m.) VLADIVOSTOK, December 31. Admiral Koltchak has appealed to tho Allies against the Czoeho-Slovaks. who are stopping trains, seizing supplies, and defying the authorities. LTTYTNOFF'S PREDICTION. (Australian .in-1 X.Z. Oa.b]<> Association.) COPENHAGEN, December 31. Litvinoff, in an interview, claimed that the tact that Mr O'Gradv was returning on Saturday to_ resume tho negotiations, indieattvl that Great Britain accented the Soviet's terms. Litvinoff added that peace was coming more quickly than was generally believed. TROTSKY REPORTED KILLED STOCKHOLM, December 31 It is rumoured that Trotslcv, who has been personally J ending the' Bolshevik ar'uy, on the Narva front, has l>oon assassinated. Prisoners state that mutiny is rampant amongst, iho troops, owing to the winter hardships. Another report states that sailors hanged Trotsky, but this is not confirmed. SEDITIOUS PROPAGANDA. fliouter'g TelpßTanis.) (Received January 2nd, 7.1.") p.m.) NEW YORK, December 31. A Buffalo n less a,'re states that Dr. Anna I'einsteiri. the wife of a Minister in the Lenin Cabinet, lias been arrested on a charge of carrying on seditious propaganda. ARMISTICE WITH ESTHON7A. (Received January 2nd, 0.15 p.m.) I/ON DON. January 1. Tho Esthonians and tho Bolsheviks liave signed a preliminary armistice with a view to peace negotiations. The armistice recognises the independence of Esthonia.