Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-14
ANT1,SOV|ET RIOTS
RAGE IN PETROGRAD
Reach Proportions Of Counter
Revolution, Reports
State
WRANGEL WINS ENCOUNTER
BY the Associated Press

London, Sept. 14.-Serious anti
Bolsbevik rioting is taking place in
Petrograd IL is declared in reports
from that city received in Berlin, says
a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
Co. from the German capital, filed yes
tertay.
Six Of the Bolshevik commissioners
1t is asserted in these advices, have
been drowned in the Neva, while the
others have been compelled to seek
places Of refuge.
Russian Soviet forces, it is reported
from Moscow, have taken tie offensive
on both sides of Brody, near the old
Galician border. and are marching on
Lemberg. according to an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Berlin, dated
yesterday.
Bolsheviki are advancing toward the
Afghan frontier from Bokbara, says a
Calcutta message to the Daily Mail.
quoting reports from Kabul and Simla.
Afghan troops, il is said. have been
hastily dispatched to assist the governor
Of Afghan Turkcstan in protecting the
frontier.
Paris, Sept. 14.-(By A. P.)-Riots
took place in Petrograd when news OF
the Soviet military defeats reached there.
according TO a report which the French
foreign ministry has received through
Copenhagen. The rioting, the report
declared. assumed the proportions Of a
counter revolution. and many Of the
commissioners were killed.
At the foreign office it was said
credit was given the Copenhagen
dispatch. except for one portion of it
tinted and fired on Kronstadt.
Riga. Sept. 14.-(By A. P.)--Rus-
sian Bolshevik peace delegates who have
arrived here to meet representatives OF
Poland and negotiate an armistice and
peace treaty consider the meeting here
merely n continuance of the conference
at Minsk.
Our terms. said Adolph Joffe.
head of the Soviet delegation. today.
were never answered by the Poles at
Minsk. nor were any counter proposals
submitted. The Poles merely criticized
our terms, but offered nothing in the
nature of proposals. Before the confer
ence can proceed the Poles must make
known the terms upon which they would
base a treaty
NJ. Joffe met the correspondent of the
Associated Press yesterday and discuss
cd with him the coming conference and
the prospects Of peace.
Our purpose" he declared, "is to
make peace only on terms which will
give us assurance that Poland will not
attack us again nor keep up a constant
state of war on our borders.'
Sebastopol, Sept. 14.-(By A. P.)-
Troops commanded by Gen. Baron
Wrangel on the Taurada front, north
west OF the Sea Of Azov, have surprised
and captured, near Polosui, In the Orie-
kov region, the 124th Bolshevik brig
ade. including it's staff and trains, ac-
cording to reports reaching this city.
Soviet forces ON this front now are
on the defensive and appear to have
become exhausted as the result of their
recent offensive campaign in Poland.
Officers find it more difficult to arouse
sentiment against General Wrangel's 8
army than against the Poles. although
the former has made heavy captures
in men and material.
The c"pedition sent into Kuban,
southeast Of the Sea of Azov, by Gen =
eral Wrangel, seems to be q failure,
both from a military and a political
view.