New-York tribune., 1920-01-10
Reds Capture
Armies
OF 10000 Men
Moscow Also Reports Occu-
patton of Novocherkassk
After Sanguinary Battle
With Anti-Lenine Forces
Denikine Wing Smashed
Control of Caspian Area
Threatens Cossacks With
New Attack From Rear


noyarsk, Eastern Siberia, has been cap
tured by the Bolsheviki, according to
wireless dispatch received here this
evening from Moscow.
"The remnants of the First, Second
and Third enemy armies have surren-
dered, and $4,000 prisoners already
have been counted," says the dispatch.
Krasnoyarsk is situated on the
Trans-Siberian Railway, about 300
miles east of Tomsk. Lying on the
plain, and open to the play of the bit
ter winds, traffic with the town
by caravans is almost impossible in
the winter. The town is situated on
the left bank of the Yenisei River1
Another communication from Mos
COW says the booty captured by the
Reds" on the southern front in Rus
sia in the present offensive included 400
guns, 1000 machine guns, II 900 rifles,
lS armored trains, 200 locomotives,
10000 wagons and large stores of food
ana munitions and $4,000 prisoners.
City Taken in Battle
The City of Novocherkassk has been
captured by the Bolsheviki, it is also
asserted in wireless message from
Moscow. The city was taken on
January z, after a battle of the most
severe character with General DEM
kine's troops.
Novocherkassk is twenty miles north
east of Rostov, the principal seaport of
the Don Cossack region, and is an i'm
portant city in the midst of coal re-
gion. (Moscow dispatches on Thursday
declared the Bolsheviki were continu-
ing their irresistible march against
Denikine, and that the fall of both
Novocherkassk and Rostov-on-the-D Don
was expected shortly.)
The capture of Novocherkassk would
mean the further rolling back of Gen
eral Denikines right wing, following
the reported disastrous breach made in
the center of his armies on the Sea of
AZov. This part of the Denikine forces
is composed of Don Cossacks and the
army of the Caucasus.
If the Bolsheviki operating against
Krasnovodsk. on the eastern shore of
the Caspian Sea, should continue their
successes. gaining control of the Cas-
plan and occupying the Baku 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 Cen
eral Denikine's right wing even more
desperate.
Bokhara Is Entered
Bokhara, capital of the important
khanate Of Bokhara, in Central Asia,
and less than 200 miles from the Az
ghanistan frontier. has been entered by
Bolshevik forces, according to War
Office reports.
A dispatch from the Lettish General
Staff states that when the Let's and
Poles captured Dvinsk early in the
present week they found the popula-
tion starving. Typhus is raging
throughout the city.
PARIS, Jan. 9.-The whole of the
Kamenets Podolsk- Proskurov- Starokon-
stantinov railway line is now in the
hands of the Poles, according to ad-
vices from Warsaw. The ladvices de-
clare the Polish high command intends
to proceed with the occupation of ali
the region evacuated by General Deni-
kline and not yet invaded by the Boil
sheviki.
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 9.-Esthonia has
acceded to the request Of General Yu-
denitch for the transfer of the latter's
army to the southern Russian front,
where it will reinforce General Deni-
kline, according. to a Helsingfors dis
patch to the "Tidningen" It is said
Esthona will assist in the transporta-
tion of the troops by water.