GHASTLY SPECTACLES.

Northern Advocate, 21 January 1920, Page 1

GHASTLY SPECTACLES.

POLAND INVASION PROBABLE

DENIKIN FORCES OBLITERATED.

LONDON JAN. 18

With the latest news from Russia, the military defeat of the Bolsheviks passes into the realm of distant possibilities. Flame and th e sword are. famishing ghastly spectacles of- ruin ard disaster in the South-west of Russia. Great Russia is being triumphantly re-established by Trotsky's armies. Amidst this welter of misery and death th e last remnants of Admiral Kolchak' s and General Denikin's armies are disappearing, leaving nothing.

Th c "Tim e s" correspondent at Warsaw says Denikin's forces are completely annihilated. The correspondent adds that Trotsky and the "Red" officers favour the invasion of Poland, which is regarded as certain in April, after two months' re-organ-ising and r e -grouping of forces. The Poles, it is pointed out, are ready in strong strategic positions, with the Letts and Rumanians on the flanks, but immediate Allied assistance is vital. The Bolsheviks are infinitely more num.erou s and better equipped.

The "Reds" are making rapid progress at Odesea, where th e few "Whites" under the Allied warships' guns are rallying and .talking of opposition. The Black Sea position is complicated by the Russian fleet, which we handed over to the volunteers early in the year.

The "Times' " Teheran correspondent telegraphs that information there shows that the Russian fleet is permeated with Bolshevism, and that the old Russian Caspian Sea fleet is in a similar condition. It has sailed from Krasnovodsk, and is apparently joining the Bolshevists. The Tartar and Georgian Governments have refused to trust Denikin, Avhose rigid adherence to the methods and ideas of the old regime, and failure to recognise the peasants' desire to lyCep thi'ir land, raised wherever he went >" larger crop of enemies that he conquered!

Eastern Siberia is In a state of utter chaes.Hunger is widespread, and even the wealthiest refugees are dying of the sharpest pangs. Irkutsk is aflame.

Local insurrectionaries are deposing Kolchak officials everywhere. It is not known what nas become of the alert, dapper, sharp-faced little man who since the coup d'etat signed himself "Supreme Ruler." The Czech troops wer c turned back at the Allies request, and sent alo.ng , the Tailway with o,rder s to effect his rescue. The pnly news coming from the ter ritories to which they have returned are fragments telling how the British, American, and Japanese groups are isolated, apparently overwhelmed and taken prisoner. Outbreaks by extremist's are reporter at Vladivostok, which the Allies are quelling.—U. Service.