The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-01-30
BOLSHEV|K| FORCE
AMERICANS BACK
Town of Shenkursk Is Evacuated
Under Pressure.
u. S. TROOPS ESCAPE BY RuSE
Russians viii Accept Peace Farley
Only on Condition the "Reds" Can
Have the Upper Hand With
Other Factions.

Archangel, Jan. 2S.-Allied head
by ruse that an American battalion
and allied forces at Shenkrusk succeed
ed in escaping being surrounded. The
bolsheviki who had already closed in
ON the town from the south, east and
wear. had appeared in considerable
numbers on the highway north of the
town and had cut all telegraph wires.
To escape them the American troops
slipped out of the town along sell
dom-used trail through the swamps,
bringing with them virtually all of
their equipment In a fight Saturday
at Tarasevo (Tarasavska, northwest
of Shenkursl), in which the bolsheviki
were defeated, the American troops
captured several prisoners, number
of machine guns and other equipment.
The bolsheviki captured q large
store Of provisions at Shenkursk,
which the garrison was unable to burn
for fear of revealing the intention to
withdraw.
All the American guns were either
removed or made useless.
number of wounded Americans
were removed on sleds,
London's Report.
London. Jan. 2S.-Allied forces on
the front south of Archangel, mainly
American and Russian troops, have
evacuated the town of Shenkursk I'M
der bolshevik pressure and Withdrawn
to shorter line north of the town,
according to an official statement
from the British war office on opera
tons in northern Russia.
BoIsheviki May Accept Farley.
Paris. Jan. 2S.-Most Of the news
papers express the opinion that the
dispatch sent by NJ. Tchitcherin. Rus
sian bolshevik foreign minister, to the
soviet representative In Sweden re-
questing confirmation of the decision
of the supreme council of the peace
conference to send q mission TO the
Princes island to confer with the
Russian faction and saying that the
islands are too remote for such
meeting, is not a formal rejection of
the request for an open parley. They
say, however. that Tchitcherin will
accept the invitation only in case the
bolshevists could have the upper
hand
The official statement reads:
The bolsheviki have continued
their pressure against the Shenkursk
front On January 90 and % they
launched considerable forces in an at
tack after having bombarded the posi-
tons for three days. Our forces, con-
sistng principally of American and
Russian troops, were first withdrawn
to the defenses of Shenkursk to avoid
being outflanked by superior numbers.
Later the town and its defenses were
evacuated successfully and shorter
line taken farther to the north"
Allies Withdraw to Vaga River.
Archangel, Jan. 2S.-The town of
Shenkursk. 100 miles south of Arch
angel, was evacuated Saturday after
noon by the American and allied forces
In order 70 avoid unnecessary casual
ties. The allied forces moved north
ward to a line along the Vaga river.
The withdrawal from Shenkursk
was carried out successfully. A num-
Der of wounded in the American hos
pital were removed on sleds. There
was little or no interference with the
bolsheviki.
A large number of peasants and Rus
sian partisan troops also moved out
with the American forces.