The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-01-16
REDS ADVANCE
ALARMS BRITISH
BOlSheviks at Threshold Of In
dia, Persia, MeSopotamia
and ASiatiC Turkey.
SUCCESSES AT CLIMAX
Odessa Hemmed in-Black
Sea Near Capture-Internal
Troubles threatening

Basle. Jan 16.--Odessa. the chief
port of Russia on the Black sea. has
been occupied by the bolsheviki, ao-
cording TO newspaper dispatches re-
ccived here.
Germano- Turk Alliance.
Saloniki, Jan. ia telegram from
"A Greek source received here says
the Turkish military authorities at
Marzlfoun, Anatolia. have received a
message reporting new alliance
between Germany and Turkey is
about to be concluded
Hastily Summoned.
LONDON, Jan. l6.-Attention OF the
British people Is fixed on the near
east where recent bolshevik sue
cesses have carried the red Russian
armies almost up to the threshold OF
india, Persia, Mesopotamia and ASH
attic Turkey. Cabinet members and
chiefs OF the British army and navy
are today in Paris, whither they were
hastily summoned yesterday, and are
conferrlng with Premier David Lloyd
George ON military ana naval mat
ters in connection, 1t is believed. with
conditions In southwestern Asia.
Apprehensions were aroused by the
Issuance OF semioftloial statement
yesterday pointing out the situation
that has arisen through the collapse
of Gen. Denikine's army In southern
Russia and bolsheyik penetrations OF
Transcaucasus. Not only was IL ad-
mttted the menace from Russian boil
shevik invasion from the northeast
was very real, but II was pointed out
internal conditions In Persia, Turkey
and Afghanistan were threatening,
In Mesopotamta, too, the British
are forced to contend with dlfIlcul-
Ties arising from racial dlssensions.
IL was said a soviet advance that
captures the Crimea would make the
Black sea virtually Russian boil
shovik lake, and II was further said
that Great Britain could hope for but
httle help from the new republics OF
Georgia, Daghestan and Azerbaijan,
which are directly In the path OF the
soviet advance.
While there Is a possibility the boil.
shevlki may launch an overwhelninu
attack against Poland, the abatement
issued yesterday showed the ureat.
est prooccupation OF offioialdom was
over the dobaoIo Of Denikine's armies
and the rapid advance OF the soviet
forces toward the Persian and Al
CHAN frontiers.
Not OF Sudden Growth,
The situation which now confronts
Great Britain and. more or less, Ia
pan ana China is not OF sudden
growth, however. For tie past two
months or more the bolsheviki have
hnd an almost unbroken series of
successes which have swept them
forward on all fronts, where their
lorces are believed to be formidable.
ADMIRAL kolchaks army In Siberia
seems 10 nave Teen completely de-
loated' II not dispersed. The reds
ur' iHr east or krasnoyarsk and are
moving near lrlSutsk. While reports
from siberia have dealt almost an
tirely with operations along tho 81
peflah railroad, occasional advices
have Indicated the bolshevitI hnve
moved forward south or that line nnd
nave established themselves near Tho
Mongollan frontier southwest OF
lrkutsk,
FARTHER 10 the southwest the soviet
iorces have passed AlSmolnsk and
arc believed to have moved south-
ward and eastward toward the from.
tlcr OF Chinese TurSestan. Tho can
ture OF Bokhnrn. less than 200 miles
IRON the Afghan border, was an
hounced from Moscow week nRo.
ana II was said Krnsvosk, on the
eastern shor, Of the Caspian sea, wns
loilnerly In the handr of the bolshe-
Vikl Thus from the Yonesezo To tho
IeHpiah' distance OF 200 miles, the
polaheVikl seem TO be quite firmly
tstoplshed. From this line IL would
appear they might be able to ASSAY
lhcursions toward Afghnnistan ana
PERSIA, TO the south. Chinn lies souih
OF tho Caspian sen ana bolshoyil,
agents are said to have been active
there. "O'''o