Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-18
ARMY D|SSOLV|NG,
BOLSHEV|KI FACE
WINTER DISASTER
Two Regiments Which Lack
Food, Shoes and Clothes
Vote to Surrender.

SEBASTOPOL Crlmea- oCloper ID
Following the defeat of soviet forces
by Gen. Wrangers army at Sinel-
nikovo, two soviet regiments sta
toned in the village of Ribaskoe held
a meeting and decided to surrender,
according to an official report.
They took this action in view of the
fact that they were without 1000,
shoes and clothing.
Bolshevik authorities are reported
to conceal the fact no longer that
their army is dissolving and that a
winter campaign is Impossible under
present conditions.
Twenty-Five hundred civil prisoners
were masSacred upon orders from
five different commissions during the
last days of the occupation of Ber-
diansk, on the northern coast of the
Sea of Azov. according to advices.
1t is said that to be arrested was
tantamount to death sentence, either
by starvation, disease or the pistol.
Prisons are reported TO have become
mad houses.
Upon leaving. the bolsheviki carried
eff all valuables. even taking dresses
and bed coverings from woman pris-
oners.
Aims of Baltic Union.
RIGA, October II (by the Associated
PreSS).-'The Baltic states will not
start any war, but we will resist to
the last man any effort to take our in
years the new border states have
learned how to resist in the struggles
against German and Russian agrees
sion." Karl Ullman. premier of Letvia,
told the Associated Press today.
The Baltic Union is misleading
name for the understanding the Dor
der states are arranging" he contin-
ued. 1T is not really intended to be
"a union in the sense the United States
is union. The new states do not pro-
pose to surrender any sovereignty, but
merely to harmonize currency, trans
portation, customs, tariffs and tele-
graphs and arrange coordination of
their defenses if their independence as
a new group is threatened
Naturally there is great disap-
pointment in the Baltic states that the
United States and other great powers
refuse to recognize their legal indie
pendence. but, having lived many years
in America, understand the failure Of
untrayeled Americans to appreciate con-
ditfons In the new Baltic states.
Under the influence Of such men as
Bskhmetef (Russian ambassador to
the United States). who is pleading
for a United Russia in order to per-
petuate Russia's oppression. of the
Baltic states, Americans have been
led to believe that old Russia really
was composed Of united states. How
was that possible when actually 10
different peoples without any cohesive
element were merged into an empire
which must inevitably disintegrate?
Refers to Fifteenth Point.
why should America punish us
border people by refusing US recogni-
ton and assistance in reconstruction?
We have the education and organiza-'
ton Necessary to establish q govern
ment. but are condemned because
Ru1ts lacks the power to create a
popular government. We believed in
Americas fourteen points and are
shocked at Secretary Colby's note
enunciating fifteenth point. namely,
that seif-defermination IL for Czecho-
slovakia. Armenia, Poland and Fin
land. but not for parts Of the Russian
empire. with populations just as dis,
tincf. Homogeneous and Russian
as the Armenians. Poles or Firms.
But think appreciate the mis-
understanding upcn which such policy
IS based. America has such uniform
character throughout and its states
hxye such cohesive force drawing
them together that the American peo-
pie think Russia the same, and cannot
understand the desire OF the wholly
diasimflar peoples Of Russia to man
age their own affairs and throw on
Moecops oppression"
C1801800 10 Jon wfo1SeA
Warsaw. October II Cby the As
seczzted Pressl-ActuAl fighting lav-
ing ceased on the northern Russian
fr0ot. attention has been shifted to
UHzane, where tho Ukrainians are
cHxytng On the war for the purpose
Of Riding their country Of the boil
sheyfd
NE UkfAiniAn army win fight with
the WranEel forces. Plans are being
mad for the two armies to Join soon.
and the Ukrlinians are gradually
voek1nX their way to the southeast.
where Gen. WFzugefs anff-bolshevik
foecesi are in conflict with soviet
Gen. Budenny. who is reported to
h4Se been wounded before resfgnfng
as commander Of the bolshev1k cayairy.
is said to have established haadquar-
tsrg at MfnnecA. southwest of Kfev,
where be Is organizing insurgent de-
taehuafnfs IN the interests Of Gem
According TO information received
at the headquarters Of the Ukrainten
mission here. the UiIafntan soviet
ssvefnment was transferred from Ktcv
TO KhArkov some days ago.
Owing to numerous bolsheytk raid
ing parties oper1ttng west Of Kiey
railroad communication between War
say and that city has not as yet been
established.