The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-29
YANKS BATTLE
REDS IN SNOW
americans, British and Russians
Unable to Drive BoIsheviki
From Town.
WEATHER is EXTREMELY cold
Allies Moving Big Guns Up Toward
Bolshoa- Ozera - Aviators Bomb
ToWn-PoIes Take Pinsk and
Grodno and Rout Foe.

london, March 27.-The troops of
the Kolchak government, which
pierced the bolshevik front on a 80
mile sector March IL, continued their
progress and the position Of the boil
sheyik1 Is precarious, according to a
Reuter- dispatch from Omsk The
= AIeRak army has completed the cap
0sa ana n
ENvhg the bolshevik army westward
In three directions.
The bolsheviki are abandoning large
quantities of stores, while the Kol-
chalk troops have taken a large num-
Der of prisoners and annihilated three
bilshevik regiments.
With the Allied Forces in North
Russia, March 27.-The bolsheviki are
intrenching and reinforcing both their
infantry and artillery at Bolshoia-
Ozera and are endeavoring to hold
this important point in the line of the
allied communications between Oboz-
erSkala ana omega.
Sunday the Americans and British
attacked from the west side of the
village, and the Russians, supported
by Americans and British, attacked
from the east along the road.
Fighting under the utmost difficult
ties, the allied troops were unable to
advance beyond the line of enemy ma
chine guns, while the bolshevik artil-
lery maintained a certain sweep Of the
winding high road through the woods.
Fight Waist Deep in Snow.
Struggling waist deep In the soft
drifting snow of the forests, the forces
striking from the east found flank
ing movement impracticable and they
were able to progress only at the rate
of two-thirds Of q mile an hour. To-
day the allied troops were bivouacked
along the road on both sides of the
village within good artillery range.
The weather during the last few
days has again be extremely cold and
the Americans and others who are liv-
ing In Igloolike arctic tents, are find
ing their first opportunity to test these
shelters.
They are holding the line to Onego
and Obozerskaia. Their big guns are
moving up, drawn by American mules,
which are steadily Flooding ahead and
conquering the steep, icy hills and the
deep drifts. The airplanes, equipped
with runners instead Of wheels for
alighting on the snow, have bombed
Bolshoia-O zera.
Bolsheviki Try Many Tricks.
The bolsheviki are trying many
ruses. In the woods where the allied
patrols are operating the enemy has
tied dogs to trees, and their barking
on the approach of any human being
gives the bolsheviki warning. When
the enemy first raided Bolshoia-
Ozera, advance details of reds which
rode into the town wore the uniform
of the Slavo-British legion. Their sur
prise of the little allied garrison there
was evidently complete. Some OF tne
French escaped by walking for two
days and two nights through the snow
and arrived half-frozen within the al
lied lines.
Malcolm v. Arnold of Lincoln, Neb.,
a Y. M. G. A. worker, is missing. and
Is believed to have been captured by
the bolshevilSl. He last was reported
at Bolshoia- Ozera, which was raided
and then taken by the bolshevik
forces.
Poles Rout BoIsheviki.
Warsaw, March 27.-Polish troops
have taken Pinsk and Grodno, It was
announced The bolsheviki are re-
treating In disorder.