Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-16
BRITISH LEADERS RUSH
TO CONFER WITH GEORGE
Cabinet Members, Army and Nav
Officers, Hasten 70 Paris n
Premier's Call
" As,o~latrl Press = ev--v Ev~o'1r

London Dan lt tttrr't11 ~ tl
British people + fzrd on - ,ca- @
yehcrr recent 81 -hcw< Iccrs-es H0-
carried thr Red Russian lrnrs almost Iu
t1 me threshold 1f lnda Persia
p5tama aud A7iato Itriey lah-r
mctubrrs ard chrfg pf ttn British r~r
and 0avy 1rc fodav III PARTS Whthrr tho
wnrr hastily -Inmourd yesterday arf
are confcrrng wth Premier l7y1 iIoy
George m mihfa-, And rava natf-re
connection II W believed. conditions
southwestern Asi1
Lo~Uos wtRvV ~ rRu
Apprehension aas aroused nv ihr
zuance Yi scru-oHtcal efaBrrent yoeicr
day pointing puf t1c itJatlnn .hat ra-
arisen through tuc rr4.ap-n AZ irrer
Denlkinc army II -nutuer ttus-ia tnd
b0lshevlk penetration t trans-t aspla
Not NV was ldtuitted tne mare from
\ Russlqn bolshcvk INVASION MI t1e Srar
last was very rral tut was pointed 1gt
thar Internal conditions .n Persia Fir-
kew and sighantstan we're trrsatrufpv
In Nesopotauia tn the British arr iorr-
70 to cortnd with dificuities arising from
raciai dissrnsion ID Was sald that 4 soviet
advance that captures ihp C,mF7 1u.d
make tine Black -ea virtually Russian
h0lshcvlk AXE and lt waz further nGi-
Gated that Great Britain could Gope nr
little heip from the new republrs .f
Georgia Daghs~tan anG AA-rhaiian. h.rh
are directly p the path II the sovlef ad-
vance
DESIEESE. a DEFEAT HEAVY HLGW
While there d B possibility the 5oi-
shevikl NAV launch an nvcrv vheltnlng az
tack against Poland the .fatsment
sued Yesterday showed the greatest pre-
occupation of ott rial dominion was aver
Sc deb8cie III Denl6lnc armies aud the
rapid advance o. the SOVIET forces toward
the Persian ana Afghan frontiers.
The tIatJ0u which now c0nfr0utst lrf,ar
Britain 8nd, fnore or less Japan and China
Is not d sudden growth, however f1-
the 3st two months or more fhe bolshc-
ylkI have had an almost Gnproken series
II successes which have swept them for
ward on ali fronts where their forces are
believed to hc formidable.
REDS ovERRCNNISG SIBERIA.
Admiral holchak army siberia
seems 10 have been completely defeated.
II not dispersed ] he reds are today lr
east 0E hrasn0yarsk and are moving
nearer lrkutsk IN hlie reports from -i-
berla have dealt almost euErelv rlih
operations along the siberian r4liTnaI
occasiou4! advIces nave Indicated the
bolshevlki have movea Sar south % that
line and have established thensel YES lear
the Monaghan frontier southwest as
lrkuts6
Farther 20 the southwest. the soviet
forces have passed AAmOlnsz and ars le-
leved 10 have moved scuthWara lEo
eastward toward the frontier 3t Chinese
Turkestan. The capture ot ko6aara. es.
than 200 miles from the Afghan border
was announced from Moscow q week ago
and il was said hrlsnJGoysk .a -he
eastern shore 81 the Caspian sea, v4a
firmly in the hands oi the rea forces.
Thus, from the enIsel river to -ar
Caspian, q distance li more than -.-lU
miles rhe hOisaeyl1i seem t0 o8 quite
firmly established From this line j. Would
appear they uIghJ De able - essay iA-
cursions toward Chln4, 70 the southeast
ar Afghauistan and India. y .le south
Persia lies south 9i the Caspian ~ca A14
boisheyik agents to 1c al-lye there.
wAaNING AGAlS-r ENTENTE.
Odessa i virtually hemmea In 5y mo
reds ~ho have moved southwa-d until
they have GraNn their tines across tGa
base Of the Crmean peninsula from Nskl-
pol 70 Meltpo
Thnlv y,isl thrr4t~ 70 resort
methods of tcrrarism should ahe boisalyi..J
be opposed ty thc entente, are contained
ia a wireless message received here troa
Moscow II said capital punishment
VIII be inflicted upon engm.ss rtG
soviet government only when sentences
are approved by the all-kuas!an cNtraa--
GInary commission, but rururu g whole
sale executions Was nntht should ttc
entente nations take steps 81 combat uul-
shevlsm.