Evening star., 1920-09-14
SANGU|NARY RIOTS
SWEEP PETROGRAD;
REDLEADERSFLEE
Six Commissioners Drowned
by Mobs, Enraged Over
Soviet Defeats.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, September 14.-Seri-
0us anti-bolsheSik riOting In taxi
ing place In PetroErnd, II is de-
clared i'm reports from that Aity
received In Berlin. says q dispatch
to the Exchange telegraph COM
pany from the German capital, nl-
ed yesterday.
Six Of the belshevik commissions
ers. II fs asserted In these advfces.
have been drowned In the Neva,
while the others have been conn
PEELED to seek places Of refuge.
PARIS. September 14-Riots
took place in PetroGrad when news
of the soviet mflitary defeat~
reached there, according to aEfe-
port which the Freneh f$rei&n
ministry has received thrsuEh
Copenhagen. The Rioting. the re-
port declared, -Assanea the pro-
portions 0f d eesnter revoiutlon
asd Aaay - 1Aes1nisssssess
were Killed. ss.@.
AT the forei9a e1nce 1t was said
: credit ysas xfven the CopenAagen
dispatch except for one portion Of
1t which declared the soviet feet
had mutined and fred ON Kr0n-
stadt.
wranseI Captures Red Brigade.
SEBASTOPOL. Crimea. September
IS (by the Associated Pressb.-Troops
commanded by Gen. Baron Wrangel
of the Taurada front, northwest of
the Sea of AZov. have surprised and
captured near Polosui, in the Oriekov
region. the 1sith Bolshevik Brigade.
including its stan and trains. ac-
cording to reports reaching this city.
Soviet forces on this front now
are on the defensive and appear to
have become exhausted as the result
of their recent offensive campa gn
in Poland Officers find it more diff
ticult to arouse sentiment against
Gen. wrangers army than against
the Poles, although the former has
made heavy captures in men and ma
terial.
The expedition sent into Kuban.
southeast of the Sea Of AZoy. by Gen.
Wrangel seems to be failure, both
from a military and a political view.
BY Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright. 1920.
SEBASTOPOL. Russia September 6
(via Constantinople. September 13.)-
That part of Gen. Wrangers army
which l have seen reminds me of the
Russian army before the revolution.
the only difference being the mutual
of the soldiers and officers
in this organization. All Seem to
realize that they are fighting for a
common cause just as they know that
death awaits them if they fan int1
the hands of the reds. The pre-war
glittering uniforms are worn on ac-
count of the lack Of cloth out of
which to make new ones.
The spirit Of the army appears to
be high, the latest successes having
reawakened hopes of a possible vic
tory The army does not exceed 75.-
000. Gen. Wransel could double it if
he had the equipment and armament.
The food supply is plentiful both at
the trout and the rear.i The general
possesses four warships. but their
are restricted by the lack
of coal
Gen. Wrangel's strategic position is
good. He has repelled the bolsheviki
from Taurida and will probably be
able to hold the left bank of the Dnie-
per. Both armies are exhausted after
months of fighting. Gen. Wrangers
staff officers do not believe that the
will be able to reinforce
their army quickly and important
operations are not expected now. The
oHfy dCliSils OH the Iell
the river. where Gen. Wrangel il
having some skirmishes with the enc
my in an effort to drive all the re-
bolsheviki out of the district.
Soviet Delegates Mt Riga.
RIGA, .Letvia. September II tby the
Associated Press) The Russian boil
shevik delegation headed by N. Jofre
arrived at Riga this morning and is
luartered in the Hotel st. Petersburg,
where a score of short-haired woman
and typists are unpacking
,ffices preparatory to the negotia-
tons. which, it is expected. will not
begin before September 16 or II be-
cause of the delay in the arrival of
he Poles.
Joffe and Bolenski. the. bolshevik
assistant eommissar OF hnance, repre-
sent, soviet Russia. while the Ukrain-
an commissar of agriculture. MANU-
sky, represents the Ukrainian soviet
The report that NJ
the bolshevik minister of
'oreign affairs, is coming is denied
,y NJ. Joffe.
Gen. Alexei Polivanoff. who was
minister of war before the kerensky
and Gen. Novitsky accom-
1any the delegation as military ex-
,erts. The Russian party totals
'orty-one persons. including under
and various departmental
clerks.
LONDON, September 1.-THE Rus
sian soviet forces, it is reported from
Moscow. have taken the offensive on
both sides Of Brody. near the old Cali
berg. according to an Exchange Teie-
graph dispatch from Berlin. dated Mon
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