South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-02
EXPECT BREAK IN
BOLSHEVIEI POWER
Complete 0iSinterCration of
Movement in Russia Is Ex-
peCted by Washington.

WASHINGTON. May 2-Evacu-
alton OF Petrograd by bolsheviki. re.
ported Thursday in dispatches from
Iielsingfors ia the opinion OF OBJ
servers mere. may prove TO be the
initial break in the structure erect
ed b. the radical leaders which. il
recent developments continued their
normal course. would lead 20 the
complete disintegration OF the
bolshevik government IN Russia
This belief was strengthened by
other dispatches telling OF the indi-
Gated collapse of the Hungarian
soviet. VINO, II vas said, have sued
for peace with Bumanid.
Allied successes in the Archangel
and Murmansk sectors. although
minor in comparison with the great
extent of territory involved. are ex-
uected by officials here TO have ma
terial influence. especially when
taken in conjunction with the for
ward movement OF Czechs, Estho-
man and loyal Russian forces on
widely separated sectors.
Gradually EncirclC BOIahcviId.
Analysis Of the military map OF
Russia, maintained here for the in
formation Of the general staff.
shows that a gradual encircling of
the center OF bolshevism has been
under way for months Although
there Is nothing to indicate a com
mon plan Of action between the va.
riOus elements opposed TO the red
government, the effect has been TO
throw wall of anti-bolshevik
forces around central Russia, mar
rowing the territory held by the
soviet 10 a comparatively small pro
portion of the area they had occu-
pied
Troops OF the anti-bolshevist
leader. Kolchak. according to latest
reports. have been striking west in
TIE general direction OF Moscow
and now hold a general line through
Glatsov. Sarapul and kineI. 40 miles
from Samara. 10 Orenburg, on the
t'ral river. while due north of Mos
COW the allied Archangel front runs
south 10 Volog0a and then west to
the Gulf Of Onego, where II con-
meets substantially with the Muir
Ilansl< coast sector.
CIcchO-SIOvaks Active.
The ring" here is taken up in
effect by the Finnish revolutionaries
who hold down the line TO the gulf
OF Finland. The Czecho-Slovak ar
mics are actively engaged on a
front which stretches from the gulf
OF Margrav 10 Uskov. thence TO the
solf at Narva.
Attention Of the bolshevik lead
ers Is held TO the east by the ener-
setic Polish forces and. strangely
enough. by German republican
forces and 90 the south by the Ru-
manian and French.
Taken as a whole. these various
fronts completely encompass the
territory which has become the
stronghold OF the ultra-anarchist
movement.
The situation of the Hungarian
soviet Is even moro critical from "A
strictly military standpoint. The
Czechs are pushing eastward toward
Budapest and have already eStah-
Hshed themselves on 81 line from
Nacz to Eperjes 10 Narpfen, while
the Rumanian forces are headed
west toward the same general OBJ
.ective
In the case OF Russia. military
observers here say the indicated
collapse is due principally TO oppo-
sition I'm Russia itself and to tho
armed opposition. IL was recalled
that when the allied expedition was
sent into Russia. one OF the pur-
poses announced was the hope that
their presence would lend moral as
,istance 90 the elements IN the in
terror which were Interested in the
restoration OF a stable government.