Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-01-16
REDS READY FOR
DRIVE ON india
BolShevik Forces Have Entered
City of Bokhara in Gen.
trail Asia.
CAPTURE $4,000 IN SIBERIA
Swarms of Propaganda Agents Sent
Into Persia and the Caucasus
With Counterfeit Money
to start Revolt.

London, Jan. 10.-The town of Kras-
noyarsk, eastern Siberia, has been
captured by the bolsheviki, according
to Moscow wireless dispatch.
''The remnants of the First, Second
and Third enemy armies have surren-
dered, and 10000 prisoners already
have been counted" says the dispatch.
Another Moscow dispatch say6 the
booty captured by the reds on the
Southern front in Russia in the pres
ent offensive includes 400 guns, 1000
machine guns, II, 600 rifles, 10 armored
trains, 200 locomotives, 10000 wagons,
and large stores of food and muni-
tions, together with $4,000 prisoners.
krasnoyarsk Bitter Cold.
Krasnoyarsk is situated on the
Trans-Siberian railway about 800
miles east of Tomsk. Lying on the
plain, and open to the play of the bit
ter winds, traffic with the town by
caravan is almost impossible in the
winter. The town is situated on the
left bank of the Yenisei river.
An anti-Japanese rising has broken
out in Korea, according to bolshevik
wireless communication received here
last night from Moscow.
Japan Reports Irkutsk Taken.
Honolulu, 7. H., Jan. 10.-The Nippu
Jill, a Japanese-language newspaper
here, published a Tokyo cable yester-
day reporting that the bolsheviki had
captured Irkutsk and that the allied
diplomats had gone to Chita.
London, Jan. 1.-THE town of
Krasnoyarski. eastern Siberia, has been
captured by the bolsheviki, according
to Moscow wireless dispatche. "The
remnants of the First, Second and
Third enemy armies have surrendered,
and 10000 prisoners already have been
counted" says the dispatch.
Bokhara, capital of the important
khanate of Bokhara in central Asia
and less than 200 miles from the At
ghanistan frontier, has been entered
by bOlshevist forces, according to war
Office reports. Farther west soviet
troops have occupied Krasnovodsk on
the eastern shore of the Caspian sea,
it is claimed In reports from Moscow.
Direct railway communication be-
tween Trans-Caspia and European
Russia has been secured by the reds,
who will be able to concentrate i'm
portant bodies of troops in Turkestan
with a view to carrying out possibly
far-reaching plans westward toward
the Caucasus region and southwark
toward Persia (now virtually a Brit
s said.
Bolshevist authorities have an
nounced their intention to penetrate
Persia by way of Khorassan as soon
as they secure control of the Caspian
sea, and recent reports have indicated
that soviet garrisons along the Khoras-
san frontier had been heavily re-en-
forced.
The bolsheviki have as their Interior
purpose an offensive against the Brit
ish and plan important movements in
the direction of India in conjunction
with the Afghans and other peoples
who might be influenced by pan-Islamic
aspirations, it is asserted.
For this purpose swarms of propa-
ganda agents are said to be undergoing
intensive training, and may have been
sent into Persia and the Caucasus, be-
Ing provided with large supplies of
counterfeit English money. 1t is re-
ported 1900 soviet agents have gone
into Persia from Georgia and Aver
haijan and anti-bolshevist authorities
have taken steps to put stop to this
movement.
News has reached London from Brit
ish sources in Irkutsk that 1900 anti
Kolchak insurgents are holding Irk-
utsJk, eastern Siberia. They are armed
with machine guns and have airplanes
and are constantly being REINFORCED.