PROGRESS ON THE DWINA
SERIOUS SITUATION ON VOLGA FRONT. LONDON, 26th September. It is announced that General Poole has considerably advanced up the Dwina River and cleared both sides for fifty miles south of Berenintskaia, severely defeating the Bolsheviks, and sinking four ships. . . The situation of the Czechs on the Volga front continues serious. A coni siderable enemy force is operating 1 in the direction of Krasno-Ufimsk, which the Czechs hold. ■ The Bolsheviks are, constantly being reinforced by Germans. The new Bolshevik army is ultimately to consist of half a million, whom the Germans are actively engaged in instructing. The majority of the Bolshevik forces are comparatively worthless.
While two-thirds of the peasantry and about half the workmen are hostile to Bolshevik rale, the whole of the bourgeoise, are intensely hostile, to it. Many workers in' the. Volga region tried to join the Czechs, but the Bolsheviks pre--vented them. ,
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 78, 28 September 1918, Page 5
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149PROGRESS ON THE DWINA Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 78, 28 September 1918, Page 5
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