Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-08-16
B0LSHEVIK| RULE MELTING AWAY TARUOUT RUSSIA Heartened by Allies Russ Are Turning II Lenine
 Regime. SOVIET HAS FLED
 FROM PETROGRAD Hungry Peasants Marching on Capf- tai Demanding FO0d-Allipd
 Forces Give Aid at
 Two Points.

 of events in Russia from news receiv- ed today seems to be rapidly assum- ing the proportions of rout of the Bolsheviki and of a nature to bring dismay to Germany.
 With allied troops rapidly moving south from Archangel, forces of Brit ish, French, Japanese and American [ troops at Vladivostok and operating to the westward and a British force at Baku, the Czecho- -Slovaks have taken new heart in their heroic fight against the Germans and Austrians.
 Later dispatches today recorded the advance of the allied troops from Archangel to Pabereshkaia, 100 miles south, on the road to Vologda,
 The Bolsheviki are retreating and were reported committing every known atrocty upon the civilian popu- lation which openly has epoused the cause of the a111es.
 Bolsheviki Fleeing.
 The Bolsheviki throughout Russia are reported not only fleeing the ad- vancing allies but the newly aroused Russians who have learned that the allies are not beaten on the western front, as the Germans and Bolshaviki have been consistently preaching. As the real news reaches the great mass of the people the men are re- portd taking up the arms that they carried home with them when they they were disbanded after the de- bacle of Brest-Litovsk.
 One official of the state department declared today that far from being tired of fighting and wanting only to get back to their homes, as the Ger man propagandists have reported, the Russians are more anxious than ever to fight for their freedom which they thought they had lost so soon after having ga!ned it by revolution.
 One proof of this is found in the marching of armed bands of peasants upon Perograd demanding food and charging that the Red Guard have robbed their farms and stores of all provisions.
 Soviet Flees From Petrograd.
 The soviet of Petrograd, fully ap- preciating the menace of the aroused peasants, have fled to Kronstadt where with Lenine and Trotzky, many observers believe the soviet govern ment is making it's last stand.
 Reports, official and otherwise from all parts of Russia indicate the news of approach of the allies spreading throughout the country and that the peasants are flocking to the standards of any group openly anti-German and -Bolsheviki.
 American Troops Land.
 The landing of American troops at Vladivostok, announced today by Secreary Baker, marks the actual be- ginning of operations from the Si- berian coast to the relief of the Czecho- -Slovaks.
 British and French contingents have been at Vladivostok for several days and there is reason to believe that the Japanese have also landed.
 The principal opposition by the Bolsheviki and the armed German and Austrian prisoners is on the Siberian railroad between Lake Baikal and Vladivostok
 All the rest of the line to Moscow is in the control of the Czecho- -Slovak troo~s and the loyal Russians and Si- berians.
 The control of the road from Vladi- vostok in Nikolsk, the junction of the Manchurian eastern line and the Siberian road is in the hands of the allies.
 This permits of striking a blow directly at Lake Baikel where the opposition is concentrated because the Manchurian road has been constantly under guard by the Japanese by arms with the Chinese government.
 There is little doubt that this will be the first move of consequence from Vladivostok.
 The reported arrival of British troops at Baku is another feather of supreme importance to fine allies.
 Not only does it mean that German control of the Baku oil lands and re- fineries is seriously threatened, but it opens another possible road into Russia from the south for allied troops to enter.