The New York herald., 1920-01-10
REDS CAPTURE
$4,000 MEN OF
k0LCHAk ARMY
Take Krasnoyarsk, on Siberian
Railway, and Novocherkask,
in Don Region.

| LONDON, Friday.-The town of Kras-
Inoyarsk, Eastern Siberia, has been cap
tured by the Bolsheviki, according to a
wireless despatch received here this even
ing from Moscow.
THE remnants OF the First, Second and
Third enemy armies have surrendered and
$1,000 prisoners already have been
counted" says the despatch.
Ikrasnoyarsk is situated on the Trans
Siberian Railway, about three hundred
miles east of Tomsk Lying on the plain
and open to the play of the bitter winds,
traffic with the town by caravans is al
most impossible in the winter. The town
is situated on the left bank of the Yenisei
River.1
The city of Novocherkask has been cap
tured by the Bolsheviki. it is asserted in
a wireless message from Moscow today.
The city was taken on January after a
battle of the most severe character with
General Denikine's troops
tNovocherkask Is twenty miles north
east of Rostov, the principal sea-
port of the Don Cossack region. Mos
COW dispatches on Thursday declared
that the Bolsheviki were continuing
their irresistible march against Deni-
kline and that the f4il of both Novo-
cherkask and Rostov-on-the Don was
expected soon.1
The capture of Novocherkask by the
Bolshevki would mean the further
rolling back of General Denikine's
right wing, following the reported
disastrous breach made in the centre
of his armies on the Sea of Azov. This
part of the Denikine forces is com
posed Of Don Cossacks and the army of
the Caucasus Novocherkask is an i'm
portant city in the midst OF a coal
region.
If the Bolsheviki should continue
their successes, gaining control of the
Caspian and occupying the BalSu west
coast, as they plan, they would be able
to attack the Don Cossacks and the
army of the Caucasus also from the
rear. thus making the situation of GEN
eral Denikine's right wing even more
desperate.
Bokhara Taken.
Bokhara capital Of the important
Khanate of Bokhara, in Central Asia, and
less than 200 miles from the Afghanistan
frontier. has been entered by Bolshevist
forces, according to War Office reports
Further west. Soviet troops have occupied
IKrasnovodsk on the eastern shore of the
Caspian Sea, it is claimed in reports from
Moscow.
Direct railway communications between
Transcaspia and European Russia has
been secured by the Reds" who will be
able to concentrate important bodies Of
troops in Turkestan with view to carry
ing out possibly far-reaching plans west
ward toward the Caucasus region and
southward toward Persia and Afghanis-
tan, IL Is said. Bolshevist authorities have
announced their intention to penetrate
Persia by way of Khorassan as soon as
they could secure control OF the Caspian
Sea, and recent reports have indicated
that Soviet garrisons along the Khoras-
san frontier had been heavily reinforced.
The Bolshevki have as their ulterior
purpose an offensive against the British,
and plan important movements In the di-
rection of India in conjunction with the
Afghans and other peoples who might be
influenced by Pan-Islamc aspirations, IT
is asserted. For this purpose swarms of
propaganda agents are said to be under
going intensive training and many have
been sent into Persia and the Caucasus,
being provided with large supplies of
forged English money. 1t is reported
1900 Soviet agents have gone into Persia
from Georgia and Azerbaijan. and anti
Bolshevist authorities have taken steps
to put stop to this movement.
STOCKHOLM, Friday.-Esthonia hasI
acceded to the request of Genera Judenitchl
for the transfer of the latter's army tol
the southern Russian front, where 1t will
reinforce General Denikine, according to a
Helsingfors despatch to the Tidningen. 1t
is said Esthonia will assist in the transpor-
tation of the troops by water.