BOLSHEVIK WAR

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 87, 7 January 1920, Page 7

BOLSHEVIK WAR

ADVANCE OF THE REDS

DESPERATE POSITION OF

DENIKIN'S ARMIES

By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyriglit London,' January 5. Advices from Russia state that tho Reds have now complete possession of the Donelz coul basin. Their cavalry aro twenty miles from Taganrong. Dcnikin's troops are fleeing: panic-stricken, and have evacuated Tsnritsin, the principal bulwark 61' Dcnikin's right wing. The Reds are at the gates of the Cossack capital, Novocherkask. Dcnikin's overthrow is unconfirmed, but the position of his armies is despcrato. The Allies are sending steamers to evacuate the civilians from Odessa.—"The Times."

GLIMPSE OF THE VAST RETREAT FLYING FROjFTIIE RED TURGOR. . London, January a. Dr. Harold Williams, in a delayed telegram from Rostoff, gives a glimpse of tho vast retreat in the bitter winter, of the icy Russian steppes. A greati migration, lie says, precedes the soldiers. Traders, workmen, women and children are abandoning everything and hurrying away in trains and carts and afoot. The peasants and Cossacks are going southward in great caravans, with .' herds of cattle, horses, and camols, as though flying from a terror that walketb. '. by day. Upon the issue depends the '■ stability of Europe, for tho Bolshevists ' aro certain to turn elsewhero for con- / quests—"'The Times."

HEMMING IN THE REDS ASSISTANCE OF GERMANY NECESSARY. London, January i. Mr. J. L. Garvin, editor of "The Ob-; server," says the effective hemming ia 'of the Bolslieviki is possible oniy by cooperation with Japan and Indiu on one, side and Germany on the'other. He sug-! gesta that the Allies should secure Ger- ; inany's assistance by offering modifica-i lions of tho territorial and indemnity; provisions of tho Treaty, which aro'i untcnablo in any ease. It is futile to ! deny that Lenin and Trotsky are thorough ; leaders. They have proved brilliant or? i ganisei'B and strategists and havo utterly ' outmatched their opponents.— Cable A6sn.

DECADENT BOLSHEVISM PRESSING OUTWARDS TO OTHER >' COUNTRIES. London, January 5. "The Times," in a lender, says: "Sure* 1, ly none will.suppose that triumphant 801-»j shevism will wallow contentedly until it, dies of. its own putridity. Tho more it decays at the centre, the more? it will: press outwards—to China, Poland, Ar-> incnia, India, and Teheran." The Soviet forces have captured Eras* novodsk, and are reported to be predominant in Baku.—"The Times."