New Britain herald., 1919-12-27


 differences was the continued menace iot Bolshevism from Soviet Russia which | threatened the world with it's propa ganGa and Europe and Asia with it's armies. l tSeNeral tunes apparently on the point of
 being crushed, as the year closes it seems
 more firmly seated than at any time since Ithe overthrow of KerenSky
 l Fighting on four fronts. the Reds were ISuccessively driven back until they faced disaster, when from various causes they rallied and regained all they had lost linen came a simultaneous drive by the IAules on all fronts and the area of Bol- I ISheVlsln began rapidly to contract. Sud- }denly the whole situation was reversed, victory followed the Soviet banners in levery. quarter. of the compass, and today lthey occupy greater territory in Europe than they did twelve months ago. and the IBolshevi1i are triumphantly carrying their |conquests into the heart of Siberia, while lQerlsive1y offering peace to the Allies, who are everywhere Scuttling before them. In the east Perm had been captured on ! Christmas Eve by Siberian and Czecho- slovak forces under General Gaida and l the Reds were driven across the Kama l River. The Allies were trying to unite
 with the forces in the north coming down
 from Archangei and the Mu1"nan coast Of | the Arctic Ocean toward Nologda. Ameri- cans, Poles. French, Canadians and anti l Bolshevst Russian volunteers were in the 1 northern sector ana on lluS IIOilC lldtl Ic-
 captured the village Of kadish. General
 Semenoff. always disgruntled, held the Trans Siberian Railway between lrkutsk
 and C>hta and did all he could 10 hamper 1 the movements of the Allies. General l Derikine began a campaign in the Cau- casus and on January 9 captured Alex 1 androvsk United command was ar
 ranged with the French general, Jules
 Janin, at the head of all the armies on | pa per. but that is as far as 1t ever got ! ~1,H ,hn1Jf r withdraw 24,000 troops from Siberia and 1 there a strong movement Ill the l British Parliament and the American Congress to withdraw from Russia al- l together The Bolsheviki helped the with
 draYal by taking Ufa on New J ears Day ana driving the Americans back seventy
 five miles in the Archansel region during January.
 Two Bolshevist armies pushed west
 ward into l2sthonia and Lithuanla. cap turing Wenden and Riga, but the British landed at the latter port on January II and drove them out. Elsewhere t1le
 reds took Dorpat, Mitau and 'Windau. Tn the south they swept over the Okralne' forcing the government to move rom lKieff to Winnitza and set up Soviet rule 1 in Kharkoff Denikine, who was still | marking time in the Caucasus, an- nounced his adherence to the government jof Admiral kolchak in Siberia and tried l to get in to' ,h with him. but the Bof- shevil4i stop}cd this by capturing Oren- 1 burg The lilies cndeavored to save the Isouth hv .ldng at Odessa mixed force. Greek troops pushing on and oc- cupying kh@"Son and the French taking Nilloaieff. BL the Bolsheviki drove them both out. recapiu',u '"c~st early III April and swept down into the Crnea kolchak began an offensive west of the l Urals reca aptured Ufa and pushed back the Bolshevki twenty-five or thirty miles on a front from Perm to the Trans Siberian Railway.
 Varying Fortunes.
 Fighting the Bolsheviki was very much like punching a feather bag or partly 3eclated balloon. Driven in at one point, tAe "reds' bulged out at another. In April they were weakening in the east while strengthening their positions in tho, Odessa they ordered the Roumanians to evacuate Bessaraba, which is largely peopled by Eoumanians and which itl was thought would be awarded to them iBy June the allied ring around Soviet Russia drawn tighter than ever. Denikine was beginning his wonderful progress in tine south from near Tsarit- sin on the Volga, while the Siberian army was pushing southwest, intending to join him at Orenburg.
 The Allies were coming down from th c Arcuc by the railway to Perrograd and had passed hern. Finnish volun teers from across the border were aiding and an attack on Petrograd from the north was expected. Admiral &olchak was al the height of his advance and the Allies decided to recognize his government and support him with food, munitions and money. As as they had done this l&olchak's star seemed to decline. He had advanced to Glazov, l50 miles west of Perm. Then the Bolsheyiki rallied. drove 1 him back, recapcured Perm and Ufa and forced the Siberian army to retreat to the Urals l
 General DenikIne next came to the fore, l regained from the Bolshevih area as large as all New England, cleared the Crinea and took Kharkots. the fifth | largest city of Russia. He pushed on across the Ukraine, driving the Bolshe- | wiki out of Kieff on September 2. Odessa had been retal1en August 13 and the British landed there quantities of sup plies and equipment including tanks, l which aided materially in Denikine's suc- cess. At the peak of his drive in Augustl he was threatening Tula, an important 1