The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-20
ON RUSS FRONTS


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six nuns who were then removed and
hurled into a heap die slowly"
Nine. Paderewski charged the Boil
sheviki with committing nameless
atrocities.
Copenhagen, March 20.-Bolshevik
troops, under pressure of Polish forces,
have been compelled to retire and
evacuate Pinsk, 100 miles east of
Brest-Litovsk, according to a dispatch
from Warsaw.
Call in Pole Troops.
Copenhagen, March 2O.-The Po-
fish parliament has decided to mobil-
ize Immediately the classes from 1886
to 1901 to oppose the Bolsheviki, a dis
patch from Warsaw announced today.
| The general staff announced the
Bolsheviki have been compelled to
evacuate Pinsk.
London, March 20.-Virtually all of
the Ukraine is now in the hands of
| the Bolsheviki. according to advices
4 reaching London today. In heavy
| fighting at Nikolaiev. northeast of
Odessa, the Bolsheviki lost between
| 5000 and 5000 men, but forced the
French garrison, after fierce fighting,
to withdraw to Odessa.
Germany Will Resist.
Copenhagen, March 20.-G ermany
is bending every effort to resist the
threatened Bolshevik invasion
| Following weeks of military prepa-
ration, a council of war has been
called at Kolberg to draw up plans for
the defensive campaign, dispatch
from Berlin reported today. War
Minister Noske and General Won Winf
terfeld have gone I'd that city to con-
fer with Field Marshal Won linden
burg, who is personally directing de-
tense preparations on the eastern
! frontier.
The German government, according
to advices received here, fears an at
tempted BoIsheviki invasion will be
the signal for a general uprising of
the radical elements in Germany,
many of whose leaders have openly
boosted of an alliance with the Rus
sian soviets. Altho the Spartacans are
known to be planning another uprising
President Ebert sal. the Russian
menace is more imminent and danger
Gus than the intera1 dangers
In support of their announcement
that a general offensive would begin
on all fronts as soon as the weather
permitted, the Bolsheviki forces are
advancing in practically every sector
save the Archangel and Murmansk re-
gions, where winter conditions still
prevail.
Success on Black Sea.
The latest Bolsheviki success has
been on the Black Sea front, where
anti-Bolshevik forces are reported to
have evacuated Odessa in the face OF
an advancing soviet force of over
whelming proportions. A Berlin dis
patch today reported that another
large Bolsheviki army is moving or
Vinnetza, an important city in the Bug
Iaver region.
The Bolsheviki already have begun
tentative thrusts against the Poles or
the eastern frontier. Advices indicat,
this is a mere feeling out process, sucI
as always Nprecedes major offensive
operations. In these preliminary en-
counters, the Poles have been success
, full and the soviet armies are said t.
have been driven from Pinsk. TIL,
: Poles however, are mobilizing add
: tional forces, believing the Bolshevik
will strike simultaneously agains
them and the Germans.
Recent reports indicated that tn
garrison of several towns in Eas
Prussia have been strengthened in tn
belief the-Bolsheviki would begin thei
: advance in that region.
/: The soviet operations, while il
: charge of competent military leaders
are expected to be directed largely b,
the international soviet reported t.
have been formed in Moscow recent,
for the purpose of handling the polit
ical affairs of the international revo
luton"