The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-26
kOLCHACK'S
Government
RECOG NIzED
BY COUNCIL
Conditions Require That Anti
Bolshevik Party Call New
Constituent Assembly =
Reds IN Desperate Effort.
MOSCOW THREATENED
(By Associated Press,


PARIS, May 28.-The council Of
four Of the peace conference has con-
ditionally decided to recognize the
nnttBolshevik government Of Admiral
Kolchack and General Deikine accord
ing Ia Reuters agency here.
The conditions OF the recognition
are that regarding the future Of Rus
eia, these governments agree to con-
woke and accept the verdict Of gen.
uine constituent assembly.
Esthonian forces are officially re-
ported to have broken through the
Pskov front west Of Petrograd and to
have captured 1000 prisoners besides
great quantity of war material.
Farther east the forces of Admiral
Kolchak OF the Omsk government are
reported to be approaching Viatka. 1t
Is expected that the KoIchak and
northern Russian forces will soon
unite and then attacks may be made
on Petrograde and Moscow.
Dispatches from the Murmansk
front declare while 1t Is believed the
capture of Petrograd might be
achieved at almost any time, there Is
some reluctance on the part of the
allies to take the city because Of the
impossibility of feeding the popula-
ton until better lines of communica-
ton are opened.
Ask WOMEN VOLUNTEERS
LONDON, May 26.-While thero Is
no confirmation from other sources
that Nikolai Lenine, the Bolshevik
premier, OF Russia, has proposed an
armistice to Admiral Kolohak, head of
the all Russian government at Omsk.
there are indications that the Bolshev-
Xxi are anxious over the fate of Petro-
grad and Moscow. A wireless Rus
sian dispatch states that the deiense
committee of Moscow is appealing for
women yoluteers for military service
hi towns and admits that non-Bol-
Ehevik troops are fighting In the out
skirts Of Riga on the left bank Of the
Dvina-
According to dispatch from the
Reuter- correspondent with the allied
forces In the Murmansk region. which
reflects military views, there Is no
dougt entertained that Petrograd can
be taken but he says its capture would
be useless, owing to the allies inabil-
ity to feed the population as the Brit
fish line of communications Is now
500 miles long. with a single line of
railways. The correspondent adds
that Admiral Kolchak's troops should
be In Viatka in six weeks and soon
afterwards should be In touch with
the Archangel front He says, once
supplies from Siberia are assured, the
capture Of Moscow and Petrograd will
be matter Of only short time.
NEW UNITS TO FRONT
OMSK, May 26.-The military situa-
tion Is regarded here as satisfactory
and each week new units are being
equipped and moved toward the front
The Bolsheviki have massed forces
in the Samara sector In desperate
effort to hold the grain growing sec
ton OF the country, without which, by
their own admission, the Bolsheviki
regime is bound TO collapse. They
won q minor success east Of Samara
including the reoccupation Of the town
of Bielebei. This has been Offset, how.
ever, by the gains made by Siberian
forces along the Viatka river In the
direction of Viatka.
Fighting Is going on in the streets
OF Orenburg. At Uralsk, 210 miles
southwest Of Orenburg, Cossack forces
which have long been carrying on an
isolated defensive, have been joined
by Siberian troops and the govern
ment's position In this region has been
greatly strengthened.
kolchak Outlines Plans.
Admiral Kolchak, head of the all
Russian government has returned
from visit to Ekaterinburg, where
he presided at a conference of man
ufacturers, peasant and industrial or
ganiZations in the Ural district. He
gave them assurances that the gov
ernment would help In rehabilitation
of industries and in the building up
OF transport facilities. Guarantees
were given Jewish delegation that |
the rights Of Jews would be safe
guarded and several Jewish organiza- |
tions expressed confidence in the gov
ernment. sending cash donations for
the army.