The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-05-06
RUSS MYSTERY
WELL DEFINED
Decided Changes Expected
ShortIy-Peasants Tired
of BolShevik Rule.
WOULD ANNEX TO FINLAND
Movement opposed-Kolchak
Winning-Reds Try
Camouflage.

| Paris, May SLAP. )--Specialsts
on Russ.1n subjects attached to va
rious allied delegations at the peace
conference expect decided changes in
the Russian situation within the next
| few weeks.
The Finnish military movement
which has been threatening Petro-
| grad and which has been shrouded
with mystery is now We. defined.
| Gen UGenitch and 4,000 Russians
operating with him have the support
of the Finnish government and troops
and have recruited large numbers of
Russian peasants who have become
tired of bolshevik acquisitions. Gen.
Udenitch has occupied Petroz Avodsk
/ Olonetz and Ladeince Pole, east of
Lake Ladoga, and thus controls the
southern end of the Kola railway.
Thus the escape of the bolshevilIi
operating against the allied forces in
the Kola peninsula has / sen made
impossible and communication be-
tween the Moscow government and
the Murmansk coast have been cut.
Under the decision of Gen. Udenitch
and leaders of the Finnish forces
there, residents of the Karleia dis
trict are apparently preparing to
launch a movement looking to their
annexation to Finland. This would
give Finland the Kola railway and a
northern outlet to the Arctic.
Try to Block Annexation.
The Russian committee working for
united Russia has been decidedly
unfavorable to such a step and is
trying to block it.
Admiral Kolchak's Siberian army
continues its movement westward to-
ward the Volga, and it is expected
the cities of Viatka and Samara will
fall into their hands soon.
The bolshevik forces there are ap-
parently incapable of checking the
orderly, well organized advance from
the east With Kolchak threatening
the valley of the Volga and Udenitch
menacing Petrograd; with Kiev in
the hands of antibolshevik troops and
with kolchak's northern army mov-
ing rapidly toward the line OF COM
munication between Moscow and
situation seems extremely precarious,
Political Prisoners Freed.
Disregarding the recommendations
of M. Sinovieff. governor or Petro-
grad, the Russian bolshevik premier
recently has been releasing virtually |
all political prisoners there in an eff |
fort to show the government is be-
coming more tolerant. One result of |
this step, 1t is believed by special |
lists here, may be to produce a leader |
who will ultimately organize the op- |
position to the present regime.
Dispatches received here from Eka-
terinodar state that Gen. Denekine |
and his high command have issued a
statement of their principles for the
information of the entente powers.
They say their purpose is to over
throw bolshevik anarchy and then
work for a reunited Russia by call
ing a peoples assembly on the basis
Of universal suffrage. They favor the
of power, regional
and the greatest amount of
ocal self-government possible. They
also guarantee full religious and civil
liberty, favor the passage of labor
avs protecting the working classes
against exploitation and state their
lesire for the immediate enactment
If land reforms TO satisfy the needs
IF the laboring population.