Evening star., 1918-08-31
Soviet Reported Stronger.

nave occupied Imam, midway petWeeii
Nikol and Khaboravsk.
Soviet Reported Stronger.
coPENHAGEN. August 3o.-Bol-
shevik authorities in Russia appear to
regard their position as more secure
than formerly. according to Hans
Worst, probably Germany's best in
formed writer on Russian affairs, in
the course of review of the situa-
tion printed in the Tageblatt of Berlin.
Writing from Moscow on August 20.
Worst says that the main reasons for
the change in the attitude of the
authorities are the recent victories
over the Czecho-Slovaks, the feeling
that entente Intervention in Russia
is less formidable than YVES at first
feared and the recent German defeats.
which have given rise to feeling
that there was nothing to fear from
Germany.
Worst calls attention to the fact
that an article appearing in the Pra-
vada on August IL from the pen of a
bolshevik leader employed tone
never before used from this source
in an appeal to the bourgeoisie to
make common cause with the labor
ers.
AOIS SOUnucuCS 9AoWAs
Worst, in concluding his article.
says:
ut cannot be mistaken that a quiet
er and more confident feeling prevails
in the soviet government. In connec-
tion with this feeling the inclination
through intensified terrorism is di-
minished."
AMSTERDAM. August 3o.-A mill
tary communication issued by the au-
thorities in Moscow has been received
here. 1t is dated August 26, and says:
IN Turkestan, in the Askabad re-
gion. we again have won a big vic
tory. Near Merv our troops have in
flicted severe losses on the enemy.
who lost more than 1000 men. A
disorganfzed remnant of the defeated
counter revolutionary band retired
upon Askabad.
After capturing the town of Te-
jend on this front our troops met with
no further resistance. Headquarters
expects the capture of Askabad to-
day, which would mean the end of
Fighting continues in the Kazan
region, where the enemy is trying to
recapture lost positions in the noun
tains."
vLADISvoSToK. Monday. August
SO.-l ne IcCCHl dtNCLuPl VI LiCdt 1Ch.
Horvath to gain control of the
Russian military forces in Siberia
was such a complete failure that it
is probable the 400 zemstvo troops
which sided with him and subse-
quently were disarmed will join the
leader in Transbaikalia. who is CO.
operating with the entente forces
The troops offered no resistance to
the decision of the allies that they
must lay down their arms.
The disarming of the zemstvos was
effected by squads of allied troops
who virtually beseiged the barracks
occupied by the revolters A decision
to submit an ultimatum to the re-
VOTERS was reached by the council
commander. The revolters were given
the option of returning to their orig
of Gen. Semenoff on the Manchurian
front or of submitting to disarma-
ment.
Submit and Disarm. &.
At o'clock Sunday evening the
allied patrols appeared in the streets
approaching the staff building and
adjoining the barracks. A curious
throng attracted to the scene remain.
ed until midnight.
Apparently warned that drastic ac-
tion might be taken the revolters
closed the doors of their barracks to
the allies emissaries and for hours
refused to treat with them. Eventual
ly. however, they submitted and were
disarmed-
of the troops and disclaimed any in
tention on the part of his chief to
seize control of the government, The
zemstvo troops, he said, had long
chafed because of their inaction and
desired TO fight the enemy under Gen.
Pleshkoff.
Therefore, he said. when Gen.
Pleshkoff recently arrived he issued
call for the troops to assemble. All
came except those of Gen. TolstofY.
who refused to subordinate himself
and was dismissed from. command.
Tho affair is simple,V said the aid,
''and I can't understand why there is
all this excitement about it."
Gen. Horvath recently assumed con-
troll of all the Russion military
forces in the far east. The move fail
ed almost Immediately through the
Intervention of the allied representa-
tives at Vladivostok.
German Against German.
LONDON. August 30.-Twelve hun
dred German mutineers have Joined
forces with an armed peasant body
and attacked the German forces in
the region of Lymera. twenty-four
miles from Kiev, according to a Rus
sian wireless received here today
from Moscow.
Fierce fighting has taken place be-
tween the Germans and the peasants.
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