Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-11

eheviki is breaking down still moro rapidly after every blow struck at 1t by the volunteers of Denikine. Alter the world .revolution,"t L,enines first marching stick. broke down long ago, the second raliying stick of the bol- sheviki, the red army, is rapidly break ing down. The destruction of this stick will doubtless mean the crush ing of not only the military power but the thorough liquidation of bolshevisTn, for this is the only stick they have left to lean upon. ak
 Under such conditions. the Inelan- chOly admission in a recent bolsheyist radio that i've have not paid timely and proper attention to the southern front's is of tremendous significance. That admission, when put in other words. meAns-"we have not deployed the campaign" Errors in the strAte- gic deploying of forces in the begin ning, of a war have deciding influence and cannot be rectified until the war Is oyer" the Prussian general AtAM their the bolsheviki Gin the History of the Franco Prusefan War).
 ! Another well known military writer puts it in .still more definite and clear CT terms: 4HThe result of improper strategic deploying of forces is invArf- ably such that the army finds itself always in a place where it Is not sup posed to be-" i.
 z w e presume that even .Lne D0lSHeViAA will not deny that their troops have proven to be mot where they were supposed to be-" They are at Tobolsk while they should be at kursk. And that is all there is to it.: for once their armies are mot where they should be" it is clear that the situation will event ually end in a direct and overwhelming catastrophe for them. The general re- suits of this irremedial error. the i'm proper movement of their forces during IL k where else on the Denikine front. If anywhere. on that front the red troops were certainly not where they were supposed to be. They appear at Vol chansk when they should be at Tzarft- sin. And no sooner are they trans ported several hundred versts eastward towards T1aAritsin. which if is all over. as Tzaritsin has in the meanwhile fallen. and it appears that they should have been now at Kiev instead of hay towards Txaritsin. Again. they are transported with great difficulties westward to Kiev. only, to And that Kiev has been captured. and that their real place now should have been near Kursk.
 Such are the immediate results of the erroneous deploying of forces i. e. of the senseIess campaign in the wastes of Siberia. on the one hand. and the new brilliant strategic situa-
 
 Kiev, on the other hand. Deuikines Hanks which were exposed before are now we'll covered: his right flank is leaning upon the lower, wide stretches of the Vo1ga, and his left joins up at kiev with the allied forces.
 In vain are the bolsheviki looking for weak spots on the Denilkine Hanks by either attacking near Tzaritsin. on his right. or near Kiev on his left wing. The line Is Soiitilv held every where. Tn vain are the boIsheviki trv- in- to break through his cente~ by at t"cking Volcharsk. towards Rha rkov There thev are opposed b~ solid wa1l of front behind whish there are ten railway lives ard ttr erti-e south ot Russia with it's inexHanstible resources If A million nopulation. viii, sts hrea dstuffs. cattle. coal ore and the oorts of the Pack sea
 rTnder s-rh conditions. ard after "olthva. <harFot' F'kate ate~f,,nsfay t'essor. Odessn Kiev r- K,,,-~ts have 2" i'er rnder the Dnceasf1 h'are o% tho v-}'1~foar a~-er. we co1 1-n' for-ht tl4at Inc fall of Mosce+- vf'r follow in evita bhly and automatically