Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-03-27
AMERICANS OPEN
ATTACK UPON REDS;
VICTORY REPORTED
Boil SHEVlkI SAID TO HAVE ABAN-
poNED LARGE STORES DURING
FLIGHT FROM ALLIED ARMIES.

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With the Allied Forces in North
Russia. March 27.-..The bolsheyiki are
entreching and reinforcing both their
infantry and artillery at Bolshoia-
Ozera and are endeayoring to hold
this important point in the line OF
the allied communications between
Obozerskaia and Omega.
Sunday the Americans and British
attacked from the west side of the
village and the Russians, supported
by Americans and British, attacked
from the east along the road. Fight
ing under the utmost difficulties, the
allied troops were unable to advance
beyond the line of enemy machine
guns.
Struggling waist deep in the soft
drifting snow, the forces striking
from the east found a Ranking move
ment impracticable and they were
able to progress only at the rate OF
.twothirds of a mile an hour. Mon
day the allied troops were biyonacked
along the road on both sides OF the
village within good artillery range.
London, via Montreal, March II
The troops of the Kolchak govern
ment, who pierced the bolsheriki
front on a thirty-mile sector on March
II, continued their progress, and the
position of the bolsheyiki is pre-
carious, according TO a Reuter- dis
patch from Omsk,
The Kolchak army has completed
the capture Of Osa, southwest OF
Perm, and is driving the bolsheyiki
army westward in three directions
The bohseyiki are abandoning large
quantities of stores, while the kol
chak troops have taken a large num-
tber of prisoners and annihilated three
bolshevik regiments.
Malcolm V. Arnold of Lincoln, Neb.
a Y NJ G. A. worker, is missing and
is believed to have been captured by
the bolsheyiki. He last was reported
sto Belshoia-Ozera, which was raidec
and then taken by the bolsheyik
forces
Nv Poles Take Over Grodno.
i Paris. March 27.-APolish headquar
tiers here issued a statement yester-
day which said that the administra-
'tion of Grodno had been formally
taken over by the Poles and that the
,abolshevik armies at Pinsk have been
beate and are in full fight
Disaster in Ukraine.
London, March Embarrassing the
situation in Russia Monday, Winston
Spencer Churchill, secretary for war
told the house that events during the
last two or three months in Ukraine
had been extremely disastrous to the
French, He said they had gone some
distance from the coast when they
were confronted by superior forces
and encountered hostility from the
people.
I Kherson and Nikolaiey have been
Ftaken, and Odessa is being defended
5by French, Greek and Russian forces
&agaisnt bolshevik attacks, he said.
The position of the bolsheviki near
Odessa, he pointed out, has exposed
.iRoumania to a very direct threat OF
invasion which, with the Hungarians
advancing on the other side, has made
the situation very difficult
British Control Caspian.
The British retain control of the
Caspian, he said, but there is a boil
shevik fleet at Astrakhan, where the
harbor is at present icebound.
Small detachments of British troop
stretching toward the frontiers OF
India are holding back without serious
fighting b0lshevik emissaries seeking
Ito advance and spread disturbances
there.