Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-12
BOLSHEV|K| WATCH
FOR D|SLOYAL MEN
Officers Who Served Under
Former Car Compelled
to Fight Allies.
FAIRLY WELL ORGANIZED
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ARCHANGEL. January II. = The
latest information obtained by agents
of the allied intelligence department
and from bolshevik prisoners has de-
veloped a number of facts about the
personnel and organization of the boil
sheviki on the north Russian front
This information indicates that the
allied and American troops are now
opposed by force which. While not
of high morale. is at least fairly wen
orga ni;;ed 1t is Differed. not by Ger
mans, as at the commencement OF OPP
erations, but for the main part oH
former Russian and Lettish officers
Of considerable training.
Former Imperial Officers.
The bolsheviki have as general or
ficers and battalion and compan!
leaders many officers of the FORMER
Russian emperor's army who were
either forced to serve on pain OF
death or imprisonment or VINO are
serving for high pay. The boishc-
Wiki do not trust these men. and to
nearly every one is attached com
missar'' whose principal DUTY seems
to he TO spy on the officer and report
him for punishment il he shows signs
of waverinS.
Opposing the Americans and the al
lies on this front is the hoishevik 6th
Army. with general headquarters at
volsgda. whose commander-in-ch 1et
is Gen. Gittis. formerly commander OF
one of the Lettish brigades in the old
Russian army. His chief OF stall is
former Gen. Parski. once commander
of the old Russian 18th Array Corps,
" no is now military ADVISER 10 inc
bolshevik government
The 9Th Army is. in turn, divided
into four groups. of which the nrst or
reserve. is located at Vologda. This
group consists of about 5000 men,
largely newly arrived conscripts. and
has been under command of COL
Loewe. an Austrian bolshevik adven-
turer, 1t is made uu of bolsheviki of
ali nationalities. including some Ger
man. Austrian and Magyar prisoners
of war. who volunteered or who were
conScripted.
The second, known as the Arch
angel group, includes four columns
fighting on the vo1ogda railway. on
the positions at Kadish and TareseTo,
the Omega force and that. operating on
the vaga river in the direction OF
Shenkursk. Its general headquarters
ed by a former lieutenant named Len
goysky. This group is composed of
about $500 men,. mostly conscripts,
with a few Let's and sailors manning
the heavy guns.
Includes Some Chinese.
The headquarters of the third group
is located at Krasnoborsk, and 1t
consists of $500 men operating be-
tween the Dyina, the Pinega and
Mezen rivers. Its commander. eek
kar, was a lieutenant in the old army.
Its first line positions on the DyIna
are under command of a private sol
der named BaraduIin. This group in
ciudes some 200 Chinese and few
men of other naIionalities. but its
makeup is mostly Russian.
The fourth group. with headquar-
tiers at Vyatka. is composed of re-
serve troops acting as buffer be-
tween the allies in the north and the
Czechs on the east. II numbers about
5000 men. mostly in training.
The officers OF these forces are con-
stantly being changed, the officer in
command one day being arrested the
next day on suspicion of counter-reyolu-
tionary tendencies. Tho sailors in par
ticular seem to be deserving the bolshe-
yik cause. They were its strongest ad-
vocates at the beginning. Five hundred
Of them are known to have been taken
The bolshevik army displays strange
tendencies in battle. sometimes fighting
bravely and at others fleeing without
firing a shot The bolshevik soldiers
are now receiving an average of two
pounds Of bread daily, about one pound
of meat or fish and also sufficient sugar
and tea. Prisoners say that the boil
shevik troops are the only people in the
interior of Russia received enough to
eat