The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-03-17
FUTILE ATTACK
MADE BY REDS
Serious Attempt to Cut Com
muniCation on Vaga and
Dvina Columns.
LET'S CAPTURE ; TOWNS
Their Advance 7 z atens to
Prevent Bolsh 5 KS Re-
treat to- T a.
LET'S CAPTURE ; TOWNS

Archangel,@ Marq = o.-tDelayec''
The futile attack 50 ch the bolshc-
Wiki delivered yesfss " on the allied
and American fq.- comprised tae
first serious atteS to cut the line
of communication the Dvina ana
Vaga columns. The attempt not only
was frustrated but the bolshevik
forces suffered a severe defeat and
sustained heavy losses.
Moving from the Kadish- -Tarezvo
sector, the First battalion of the Sixth
soviet regiment, 500 strong, attacked
at 1;45 o'clock in the afternoon the
allied positions in the village OF
Gorka, which is twenty-five miles
north of BeresniS, at the junction OF
the Vaga and the Dvina. The Amer
ican- Russian detachment at Gorka
was well entrenched and 1t decisiVely
rcpulsed. the enemy, capturing hVe
prisoners and five machine guns our-
ing the fighting. After the attack the
bodies of fifty seven bolsheviki were
| found. The allied forces suffered only
| one casualty-a man wounded.
important Railroad Taken.
| Conenhagen. March 1T.--Lettsh
! troops have advanced towards Mltd'
and have captured the towns OF
Kandau and Zabeln, according to an
official statement issued by the Let
| tish Headquarters. The advance con
tinues, the statement says, and the
bolsheviki in northwestern Courlano
are threatened with having their re-
treat 20 Mtau and Riga cut off. They
are reported to be retiring in a panic
A dispatch received here from Ber-
/ I pH HyinpG IN the OF
feet that the bolshcviki have been Sc
riouslv defeated in the district be
tween kovno and wilma, and that th'
! important railroad running from Kos
hedary to Schaulen has been cap
tured
I Offensive Successful.
Stockholm, Sunday, March 16.-Th
Lettish offensive in the Mitau regio'
/ is developing successfully, the Leu
n having captured ShagorI, Grenzhoi
? Weitenfcld and Alt Autz, The Let
fish war minister has left the Eng
lish military mission at Llbau an
has gone to the front, according to
Libau dispatch received here.
, The villages mentioned in the fore
: gong dispatch appear to Indicate IN
Lettish troops are making gains I
the southwest of Mitau, on the cen
ter of line running from Ninda
to the Kovno-Nilna region.
o Americans Officers Say.
!, The Naga sector in the vicinity c
!. Kitsa, is quiet, as are the othc
= fronts.
? American officers who returned to
:. dav from the Naga front declare
e the bolsheviki sustained eXceedingl
= heavy losses last week. They re
= lated one particular instance.
occurred after the enemy had raze
t with artillery fire nearly all tn
n blockhouses in Nistavka.
d All the defensive troops withdre'
" with the exception o. a squad
c Americans who lay concealed in
a partlv destroyed blockhouse VIII
II machine guns. The enemy Scout
1t advanced and were permitted to CT
. the barhed wire enta clement.
e doing this they shouted back TO the
:. comrades that the village had bee
abandoned.
When the first column OF the DO
shcviki walked unsuspectlngly up
the entanglements the Americans II
side the blockhcuse turned their ma
It chine guns loose and moved doN
the entire enemy party. After IN
At the defensive forces went PACK IN
ot Nistavka.
s. OF the total Of thirty-siX Anne
m leans listed as missing since the
"A ginning of hostilities on this troI
- II has been reported ten are prl
" orers in the bolsheviki hospital
IS Vlidesk. This information was slV'
lg an American Red Cross heid WoLN
who questioned bolshevlkl deSer'e
~, on the Vaga front.