Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-19

AMSTERDAM. October 19.-The
Don Cossack volunteer army and
other detachments have surround
ed the bolshesik forces in the
northern Caucasus, anys n dis
patch from Kiev. The retreat of
the bolshevikf to Astral<han and
Tzarttzyn has been cut OF.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, October 1S--Allied forces
have occupied the town of kadish,' in
the province of Archangel. and have ad-
vanced for a distance of Sin miles. to
the south Of that place along the Arch
angel Vologda railway. according to an
official statement tonight on operations
in North Russia.
The text of the statement says:
"On the Murmansk front allied forces
operating from Ken, on the White sea.
300 miles south of MurnanSk. have
cleared central and southern Karelia,
and the enemy has been driven back
across the Finnish border. large
quantity of bombs. ammunition and ma
teriaI has been captured. including
twenty eight boats. three machine guns
and coo rifles.
ION the Archange! front allied forces
have occupied Kadish. on the EmtZa
river. fifty miles sodth OF its confluence
with the Dvina and advanced six miles
south along the Archansel- Nologda rail-
way" :.
!, Withdraw Along Dvina:
ARCHANGEL Northern European
! Russia, Thursday. October II (by the
! Associated Press):-Allied forces on
the IRina have been. Withdrawn a
little over six miles in the face of an
attack by greatly superior forces.
which had. been reinforced from
ed by competent officers. The with
drawal was successful under severe
| bombardment.
At last reports the. bolshevik rein
| forcements were reported advancing
and the allied forces were under a
hail of shrapnel shells and, pom,
poms." Occasionally Six-inch shell
from a bolshevik gunboat or a land
battery would strike.
! Tire positions abandoned by the al
lies were held for week against
gre tly superior forces. The allies
opera ting along the Dvina and Vega
rivers have been handicapped by a fall
on sand bars and barred progress by
gunboats at critical times.
Wounded Escape in Boats. .
| One of the feats of the evacuation
| was the removal of the American
| wounded from a hospital in the zone
of fire to a hospital boat. The .Ameri-
can doctor commanding the vesSel
| three times slipped up the river in the
darkness through the zone of fire be-
! fore he succeeded in getting the
| wounded away.
The first time the land. forces were
unable to remove the wounded owe,
the rough and muddy ground ane
down a cliff to the anchorage. In the
second attempt the boat remained al
| night at a point agreed upon. but the
lstretcher-bearers were unable to reach
i it, and the vessel was forced to move
down the stream at dawn in order t.
escape the bolshevik shells. The hird
attempt was successful, and The, re
| moval was carried out so quieti, tina,
| the enemy did not fire a single shot
during the operation. -.
| 1t is believed the bolsheviki are
| concentrating their efforts on an at
tempt to drive the Russian and al
| lied troops from the Dvina before ice
/ closes the river:
! Americans in Good Quarters.
vLADIvoSToK, Saturday, octobe,
| IL (by the Associated Press).-Amer-
tican troops in the khaborovsk dis
trict.' are quartered comfortably in
Russian barracks. The health of the
men is good and they are happily
surprised at the mildness of the
weather. Prospects of a severe VIM
! ter do not worry them.
Maj. Gen: William S. Graves. COM