NEW BOLSHEVIST COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 296, 10 September 1919, Page 7

NEW BOLSHEVIST COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF

("The Times"), London July 9. According to a Bolshevist wireless message, the boviet of People's Commission/crs has confirmed tho. following members, of tho Soviet Revolutionary Military Committee:—President, Trotsky: Vice-President, Skliansky; .Commander-in-Chief, Sergei Kameneff; members, Smilgy, Guseii, and Rykoff. Tho former Commander-in-Chief of tho Soviet troops, Vatsctis, .has been removed from his post. The reasons for tho removal of Vatsetis, explains a later message, wcro the disagreements betivcon himself and Kameueif, the Commandor-in-Chiof of the Eastern front. Vatsetis was decidedly opposed to an advance against Kolchitk, which Kameneff was in favour of doing. proved that Kamenoft' was correct. Kameneff was a former colonel of the General Staff of tho old Army. After demobilisation he immediately joined the. Red Army, where he occupied tho position of military instructor of tho Novel sector, then commander of a division, and later Commander-in-Chief of tho Eastern front. Ho has always proved himself to bo a rcliablo man both from a military and political standpoint, and his appointment is considered a step forward in (ho organisation of tho Rod Army. Of the presence of Gorman officers and German soldiers on the Pclrograd front absolutely definite oridenco has now been placed in the bands of the Finnish Government. The German headquarters, which arc directing German military policy in Russia, and (o a largo exlent tho Bolshevist military policy, are situated at Morskaya 47," Petrograd. According to information from Kcval Genniiny is looking to union with Russia as-the sole means of taking revenge on the Allies, and this is especially noticeable among tho German officers of von der Goltz's Army. ; :