New Britain herald., 1919-12-27

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 His front extended from the volga to
 the Dniester and he held the former river from its mouth, at Astrakilan on the Cas- plan Sea, to the bend at Tsaritsin. whence
 he was planning to move on Saratoff. l K aniyshin was captured on July 31 but
 the tide turned and the BolsheviSi retook | it on August 27. In the centre Denil1ine's successes continued in October, his forces capturing Voronezh and kursk Cavalry under General Mamontoff. by daring raid, cut in behind the Bolsheviki and captured Tambov. while Denikine took 1 Orel, south of Moscow. alarming Lenine
 who declared the capital in a state of siege.
 l On the west the Ukrainians. under Gen. eral Petlura. who had been fighting the Poles in Gaicia, and was subsidized by German funds, declared war ou Denikipe 1 because he refused to recognize their 1country Independent state. prefer ring that it should be autonomous in 9 !federalized Russia. Thc attacks on his
 wings compelled Denikinc to withdraw iii 1 the centre, the BolsheviIit recapturing Noronezh and Orel. Reds in the Caspian region regained the district of Astral1han and opened a route between kolchak and Denikine toward the southeast to Turkes-
 tan Persia. .Afshanistan and India, about which we likely to hear more next year. Thus ended another hope Of the i Allies in Russia. Meanwhile the British iaNl Americans in northern Russia had been withdrawn and a result many of , the antl-Bolsheyist Russians who had been fighting with them went over to the Bo. l sheviki.
 I Still another attack on Lenines armies which had been begun early in the sum- | mcr, next can1e into prominence. Estho- l?ians, Finnish volunteers. Letts and iLithuanianS had for several months beAn
 strivinG to rid the Baltic" states of BoI-
 shevili Anti Bolshcvist Russians headed tby General Judenitch. began au offensive ia2anst Petroerad, calling themselves the
 northwestern Russian government Fin- Hand was asked to aid and the Supreme lCouncil in Paris in a note to the allied lenvoys al Heisinsfors instructed them to Support this course. British war ships in l the Gulf of Finland o-operated. bomhard- fins KronStadt at long range and sinking iseveral Boshevist cruisers. But the ca D. 1 Iture of Pskov by the tsolsheViI put an lend to Baltic corporation with the north lWestern government, foI it was discovered l that some of it's officers were selling out Ito the Bolsheviki and betraylnS their own ISoldiers.
 l JndCnitch's Rise and Fall
 l General JudenItch. iu spite Of this fact. continued his advance toward Petro2rad.
 He captured Ja1nburs on October F and pushed on east taking Gatchina. then l turning north by two routes and reaching ITsarslloye-Selo and lNrasnoNt-Selo, al
 most within sight of Petrosrad. There the l d 1 all other anii-Bolshcvist operations at 1 tackled his army His Baltic allies fellj away because he dcclS1ed guarantee 1 their Independence in case Of victory. and Finland announced that it would not aid l him because he refused 10 recognize Fin Inish claims to 1\arela and the regions about the Nurman coast. which are peo- pied by tribes of Finnish kindred. The government that ,Tudenitch lad formed a lReval, with c. c, .Lianozoff as Minister of Foreign Affairs, subsided rapidly in i'm
 portanCe
 The Baltic states had more vital matters confronting them. In the peace treaty with Germany the Allies had demandedl Immediate evacuation of the region. But fearing that the Bolsheviki would over- run the country. Marshal Foch consented to a modification of the terms by which the Germans were not to leave until the Allies told them to do so. They imme- diately began to establish themselves in the country as though for permanent oc- cupation and attacked the 1Isthonians and Let's In June the troops were ordered by itbe Allies to cease their attacks and return to Germany. General von der Goltz their commander. installed himself at Mitau and proclaimed himself Governor General of Courland He pretended to be anxious to free the Baltic states from Bolshevism and asso- ciated with himself non1inally Russian army under a pro-German commander Colonel Avaloff-Bermondt. Berlin replied to allied notes by saying they had ordered Won der Gotz to return in vain. AFaloll- BernorLt on October attac cked Hlsa, en- tered the suburbs declared Courand's in dependence cancelled and called hlmsel1 Governor General. The Allies in another note to Berlin held the German government rcsponslole Tor these events and it's failure to cause Non der Goltz to leave, and announced an
 loI f>ft t1on
 and French naval forces entered the Cur
 of Riga and ordered Avaloff- Bermondt to
 withdraw Six thousand Esthonlan troops
 had joined the Let's. who finally succeeded
 in driving out the Germans and pro-Ger-l
 man Russians, with the aid or the war
 ships Berlin had suggested the appoint
 n1ent of an allied commission to go to thel
 Baltic and try 70 oust Von der Goltz s
 troops professing it's own inability to get
 them to return. This was finally dohc,
 and the Germans are departing With very ill grace, under the eyes or the commls- E
 sioners. 1
 The Baltic states. meanwhile, feeling their weakness between Soviet Russia and vengeful Germany. accepted the propo- stion of the Bolsheviki to discuss terms of peace A conference with their envoys was held at Dorpat by representatives of Esthonia, Latvia and Lithuanla attended also by officials from Finland. Poland and the Ukraine. One of the first announce
 nents of the Baltic states, however. was that they would accept no settlement which was not in accord with the policy of tine Allies toward Russia. As the Allies |. have no policy, it was evident little would be accomplished by the Dorpat conference
 Meanwlls further disasters overlook |. Admiral 1Solchaks Siberian army. on which so many hopes had centred. Driven back to the UraIs, in July KolchAk was ' forced to retire from his headquarters at Cheliabinsk to Omsk. The Bolsheviki fol- lowed him into Siberia, whther he had retTeated, about eight hundred miles from the positions held i'll the spring. British, French, Japanese and American officalsl in conference at Omsk in August urged