Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-19
RED REGIME READY
TOTAL, ACCORDING
TOLATEST REPORTS
Only Inertia of Anti-Bolshe-
visit Group Permitted
Moscow to Rule.
PRESSURE BEING APPLIED.
TO TURN TRICK IN WEEK
Such Is View Held by Military
Expert Who Has Studied
Situation.
GREAT BRITAIN GIVES AID
Contributed Tanks and Ordnance,
and Warships Are Said to
Have Thrown Shells.
GREAT BRITAIN GIVES AID
Contributed Tanks and Ordnance,
and Warships Are Said to
Have Thrown Shells.
tBy Associated Prcsa)

tBy Associated Prcxa]
WASHINGTON. Oct. lS.-'The final
crash OF the Trotzky-Lcnine regime
may be delayed some weeks. but II Is
inevitable"
thus summarizes tho situation in Rus
STA The closing act OF the Red drama
Is already under way. according 10
reports from military attaches and
special agents.
Only the inertia OF tho an,i-Bol-
shevist groups has permitted the pres
emit Moscow government to remain
alive beyond September Is. one official
who has made a special study OF the
situation sa!d.
The Bolshcvist organization. the re-
porte say. has been so poor at the
foundation - the confidence OF the
masses that only push was neccs-
sary 10 start the fall. This push has
Icient cooperation between the anti
Red leaders and in the absence OF ini-
tiative or ability on the part of any
one OF them to start the forward
movement
General Denikines advance toward
Moscow. the campaign waged by tho
Northwest Russian volunteers and the
stinening of Admiral kolchak and his
Cossack allies. have furnished more
tudu the nopcc-Ior pressure.
One Week More of Fighting.
"A continuation OF this pressure By
any, one of these forces for one week
will finish the matter" declared one
,psill,,ary expert The British alone.
western group operating in the Es-
This onicer is frank in his belle.
one Of the associate nations 70 lend
s sa%ssa S AID to the apy! Bolsheviss
tanks and ordnance, he pointed GU, and
stiffened Kolchak with materials and
moral support but Il has been reported.
ships have participated In the advance
on Petrograd by Smelling the Red
forces at kronstadt and its. detenses.
strong force OF veteran aviators Is
Official dispatches today did not re-
port the fall OF Petrograd. which, how
ever, was announced in Paris
Fall of PetroErnd Unimportnnt-
considered OF minor Importance as
compared with the results of Dent
kine's advance. Moscow can be iso-
is thought, Il the leader Of the south.
ern army and his associates decide
upon concerted attack, but the OBJ
Belaschow,-Pens triangle OF communi-
cations which controls the vast UraI
region Should Denikine arrive at
sarat tSS on on the volga. officials here
the .Bolshevists will fall into Deni-
kine's hands without a further blow.
That would result in the isolation OF
all the Bolshevist forces west OF Mos
COW with the exception OF a thin sup
ply line through Perm.
@h hded collapse ss apps Of the Bolshevtst is
factors. officials here maintained thai
military opposition from the outside
ssnce Of any orEaniz eds OF opp .ns fo,
within Russia capable OF alone un-
seating Trotzky and Lenine.
Driving Ont BoIahevistn.
once a stronghold OF the Reds. de-
clare that II Is now almost wholly
1The entire Ukraine will be free Of
B9lshe NH;s. by snring. without out
side assistance says one government
Although the Red armies still num-
reserves; the necessity Of dividing the the
tered armies the INCREASING Mee efree SCAT Of
the .r impaired morale and the, lack
erer dne to he trom ~ the
trial life. military experts here do oo NOT
consider, that figure as indicating any
Desertions en- masse have been re-
ported by reliable obser vers on one
front. Chinese mercenaries being or
gained into rear guards to prevent
disaffected units from marching home.
Hear British Bombnrded Port.
Assistant Secretary of State Brcck-
inridge Long announced today that re-
cent information received by the de-
partment from Finnish sources ra-
ported that a British squadron had
heavily bombarded Kronstadt: that
the fortress capitulated. and that the
British ships then entered the har-
Dor. Another report stated that Let
fish troops lad forced the Dvina Riv-
err and that a squadron, of twenty
g. arrived in Riga harbor. There is no
oficial confirmation OF these reports.
Unconfrmed reports continue TO
reach the department. stating that
Petrograd has been evacuated follow
ing the fall of Gatchina, thirty-five
miles from Petrograd. on the main
line to Berlin, and that the krasnai
Gorka, near Petrograd. was taken
from the Bolshevists by the Russian
White forces.