New Britain herald., 1919-12-27
Many Defeats and ReVerSeS for
 Russian Admiral
HE MAY LOSE GOVERNMENT
Socialists Form Committee Gov
 ernmcnt in Siberia in Leaders
 Absence and Organize Insurrection . -RcyOlutionists Take Depot.

London, Dec. 2I.-Admlfal hOl- chalk head of the all-Russian gov ernment in Siberia, apparently faces a critical situation according to Mos COW advices
 Bolshevik forces, advancing east ward along the Trans Siberian rail- road from Oms'k recent capital of the ll-Russian regime, are said to have captured Tomslx and Taiga, and to have occupied a number of small Ter towns in that region. Kolchak and his cabinet left Tomsk recently re- tiring to the east but reports received here indicate the retreat of the all- Russian armies may be cut off as a result of the action of social revolu- tionary elements which have set up 8 new government at Cheremkovo, about 80 miles northwest of Irkutsk. Further east another center of rebel lion has developed in the Amur river valley, Blagovestchensk being isolated from the outside world, according to dispatches.
 War Munitions Last.
 Taiga which is situated at the juno tions between the TransIsiberian and a spurlina which uns northward
 
 depot for the Kolchak forces and when the town fell a large amount of munitions of war fell into tho hands of the Soviet armies.
 Galician forces, which some time ago left the army commanded by Simon Petlura, the Ukrainian peasant leader and joined Gen. Denikine in southern Russia have revolted against DeniSine and have attacked the lat ter's army in the rear, according to Moscow reports. The Galicians are said to have been ordered to defend Kiev against Soviet troops which have been moving nearer that city from the north and northeast.
 Say U. s. and Japan Agree.
 Vladivostok dispatches state that the United States and Japan have reached basis of agreement for joint action against the Bolsheviki in Siberia but details are as yet un- known. Soviet authorities in Turl1es- tan are encountering trouble accord ing to IrkutslS dispatches it being stated that the cities of Ikhokan and S]Sobelev have been taken from the Bolsheviki. The anti -Bolshevik troops are said to be advancing toward Teshkent. Paris, Dec. 27.-Revolutionary so- cialists have formed a committee gov , ernment in Irkutslx. Siberia, where the all-Russian government of Ad l miral Kolchak esta blished it's head 1 quarters after being driven from 1 Omsk according to news received in French official circles today. The rev. 1 olutionists took possession of Irkutsk I station on the trans-Siberian railway 1 the reports state.
 Premier Pepelieff. of the Kolchak l government is absent from Irk kutsll, 1 Ko1chak for a conference regarding the formation of a new ministry NJ. Tretchikoff. minister of foreign affairs, also left Irkutsk recently to meet 1 Gen. Semenoff, the Cossack leader, in the Baikal region.
 Taking advantage of the absence of | the principal mem bers of the govern l nlent, the socialists according to the 1 advices. organized an instruction. It is considered doubtful here whether Admiral Kolchak wilp find anything of his government when he finally reaches Irkutsk. He is report 1 ed as having encountered great diffi- | culties with detachments of Czecho- Slovak troops which are en route to Vladivostok by the Trans Siberian
 railway. These troops have been 1 guarding sections of the line and have | not been getting along well with kol- ! chalk.