The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-16
B0LSHEV|K| ROUT
 IS INDICATED IN
 NEWS FROM RUSSIA
Czecho-Slovaks Take New Heart With Arrival of Allies, Who Have Be-
 gun Operations

Washington, August 15. The march of events in Russia, from news received today, seems to be rapidly assuming the proportions of a rout of the bolsheviki, and of a nature to bring dismav to Germany.
 With the allied troops rapidly moving south from Archangel, forces of British, French, Japanese and American trocps at Vladivostok and operating to ths westward, and a British force at Baku. the Czecho- Slovaks. have taken new heart in their heroic fight against the Germans and Austrians.
 Later disL atches today recorded the advance of the allied troops from Arch angel to Pabereshskaia, on the road to Volgda. Tho bolsheviki are retreating and were reported committing every known atrocity upon the civilian popula- tion, which openly has espoused the cause of the allies. The bolsheviki throughout Russia are reported not only fleeing the advancing allies, but the newly aroused Russians who have learned that the allies are not beaten on the west front, as the Germans and bolsheviki have been consistently preaching. As the real news reaches the great mass of the people the men are re- ported taking up the arms that they carried homo with them when they were disbanded after the debacle of Brest- Litovsk.
 ANXIOUS TO FIGHT
 One official of the state department de- clared today that far from being tired of fighting and wanting only to get back to their homes, as the German propagandists have reported, the Rus sians are more anxious than ever to fight for their freedom, which they thought they had lost so soon after having gained it by revolution. One proof of this is found in the marching of armed bands of peasants upon Petro. grad, demanding food and charging that the red guard have robbed their farms and stores of all provisions. The soviet of Petrograd, fully appreciatng the menace of the aroused peasants, have fled to Kronstadt, where, with Lenlne and T-otzky, many observers believe the SONleI IS iIidhH6 ieAS' stand.
 Reports, official and otherwise. from all parts of Russia indicate the news of the approach of the allies is spread ing throughout the country and that peasants are Hooking to the standards of any group that is openly anti-German and anti boishevik.
 OPERATIONS BEGUN
 The landing of American troops at Vladivostok, announced today by Sec retary Baker, marks thu beginning ot operations from the Siberian coast to the relief of the Czecho Slovaks British and French contingents have been 1t vladivostok for several days and there is reason to believe the Japanese have also landed.
 The principal opposition by the no;- sheviki anl the armed German and Austrian prisoners is on the Siberian railroad between Lake Baikal and Vladi- vostok. All the rest of the line to Mos cow is in the control of the Czecho- Slovak troops and the loyal Russians and Siberians. The control of the road from Vladivostok to Nikolsk, the junc- tion of the Manchurian eastern line and the Siberian road, is in the hands of the allies This permits of striking blow directly at Lake Baikal, where the op- position is concentrated, because rto Manchurian road has been constantly under guard of the Japanese by ar.