Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-03-27
AMERICANS OPEN
ATTACK UPON REDS;
VICTORY REPORTED.
BoLSHEVlKI SAID TO HAVE ABAN-
poNED LARGE STORES DURING
j FLIGHT FROM ALLIED ARMIES.

FLIGHT FROM ALLIED ARMIES.
! With the Allied Forces in North
Russia, March 27--.The bolsheYiM are
entreching and reinforcing both their
infantry and artillery at Bolshoia-
Ozera and are endeavoring to hold
this important point in the line OF
the allied communications between
Obozerskaia and Omega.
Sunday the Americans and British
attacked from the west side Of the
village and the Russians, supported
by Americans and British, attacked
from the east along the road Fight,
ing under the utmost difficulties, the
allied troops were unable to advance
beyond the line of enemy machine
guns.
Struggling waist deep in the soft,
drifting snow, the forces striking
from the east found Ranking move
ment impracticable and they Were
able to progress only at the rate OF
two-thirds of a mile an hour. Mon
day the allied troops were biv0nacked
along the road on both sides Of the
village within good artillery range.
London, via Montreal, March 27,--
/. The troops of the Kolchak govern
ment, who pierced the bolsherik
front on a thirty-mile sector on March
i. II, continued their progress, and the |
position of the boIsheviki is pre-
carious according to a Reuter- dis |
patch from Omsk
The Kolchak army has completed |
the capture of Osa, southwest OF
Perm, and is driving the b0lsheyiki |
, army westward in three directions |
The bolhseyiki are abandoning large |
aquantites Of stores, while the kol |
chak troops have taken large mum |
aber of prisoners and annihilated three /
bolshevik regiments.
Malcolm V. Arnold of Lincoln, Neb
Y. NJ. G. A. worker, is missing and |
is believed to have been captured by
the bolshevilxi He last was reported |
to Belshoia-Ozera, which was raidec
and then taken by the b0lsheyik
forces.
Poles Take Over Grodno.
I Paris, March 27-iPolish headquar
40 lnro ptn va
day which said that the administra
.tion of Grodno had been formally |
taken over by the Poles and that the |
abolsheyik armies al Pinsk have been |
beate and are in full flight.
Disaster in Ukraine.
London. March 27-Discussing the
situation in Russia Monday. Winston
Spencer Churchill secretary for war
told the house that events during the
last two or three months in Ukraine
had been extremely disastrous to the
French He said they had gone some
distance from the coast when they
were confronted by superior forces
and encountered hostility from the
people
Kherson and Nikolaiev have been
taken, and Odessa is being defended |
by French, Greek and Russian forces
agaisnt bOlsheyik attacks, he said
The position of the bolsheviM near
Odessa, he pointed out, has exposed
Roumania to a very direct threat OF
invasion which, with the Hungarians
advancing on the other side, has made
the situation very difficult
British Control Caspian.
The British retain control Of the
Caspian, he said, but there is a boil
sherik fleet at Astrakhan, where the
harbor is at present ice-bonnd
Small detachments Of British troop
toward the frontiers Of
India are holding back without serious .
lighting bolsheyik emissaries seeking
to advance and spread disturbances |
there.