Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-01-16
WARSHAD0W
AGAIN FALLS
UPON ALLIES
Hasty Conference Held at
Paris to Discuss Boil
shevist Menace.

London, Jan. 16.-The impression
prevailed here today that in the
conference at Paris of Premier
Lloyd George, Winston Spencer
Churchill, the war minister; Wal
| ter Hume Long, first lord of the ad-
miralty; Baron Beatty, commander
Of the grand fleet, and Field Mar
shall Sir Henry Wilson, chief of the
imperial staff, it would be decided
to take some defensive action
against bolshevik military aggres-
sion.
Persia Wants Promises.
The Persian government has re-
1uested Great Britain to state what
assistance can be given Persia in
the event Of a bolshevik invasion.
An unconfirmed report from Ber-
lin says that Enver Pasha, former
Turkish war minister, who was
recently crowned king OF Kurdis-
tan. has been in Berlin and has pro-
ceeded to Asia Minor. This raises
| the question of whether he was
trying to enlist the support of Ger
| man extremist elements in carry
ing out cooperation between the
! Turks and the bolsheviki.
Eyes On Near East.
Attention of the British people
! is fixed on the near east, where re-
cent bolsheviki successes have cer.
ried the red Russian armies almos,
up to the threshold of India, Persia
(, Mesopotamia and Asiatic Turkey
Cabinet members and chief of the
British army and navy are today ir
Paris confering with Premier
David Lloyd George on military anG
naval matters in connection, it i:
believed, with conditions in south
western Asia.
! Apprehension was aroused by
the issuance of semi-official state.
ment yesterday pointing out tht
situation that has arisen through
the collapse of General Denikine's
army in southern Russia and Dol.
shevik penetration of trans-Caspia
Not only was it admitted the men.
ace from Russian bolsheviki in.
vas of the near east was very real
but it was pointed out that interna
conditions in Persia, Turkey ant
Aghanistan were threatening.
Trouble in Mesopotamia.
7 In Mesopotamia, too, the British
are forced to contend with Difficult.
ties arising from the racial dissen.
sion.
1t was said that soviet advance
that captured the Crimea woElt
make the Black sea virtually Rus
sian bolsheviki lake, and it wa.
further indicated that Great Britain
could hope for little help from ths
new republics Of Georgia, Daghes
tan and Azerbaijan, which are Il.
rectly in the path of the soviet ~.
vance.
The statement issued yesterda,
showed the greatest pre-occupatio1
OF of1icialdom was over the debaclt
OF Denikine's armies and the rapid
advance of the soviet forces toward
the Persian and Afghan frontiers.
Not Sudden Development.
The situation which now con
fronts Great Britain and more OF
less Japan and China, is not of sud.
den growth, however, for the pas
two months or more the bolsheyik
have had an almost unbNken ser.
les Of successes on all fronts.
Admiral kolchak's army in 81
IBERIA seems to have been complete.
ly defeated, if not dispersed. The
reds are today far east of Krasnoy.
arsk and are moving nearer Ir.
kutsk.
Further to the southwest the SOW.
let forces have passed Akmolinsl
ana are believed to have moved
southwark and eastward toward the
frontier Of Chinese Turkestar. Tht
capture of Bokhara, less than 20(
miles from the Afgan border. was
announced from Moscow.
Say Let's Hold Ground.
London, Jan. 16.-Advices to thu
Lettish legation here from Riga I'M.
der yesterdays date state that .
bolshevik offensive along thu
Notwithstanding railway or
Wednesday was repulsed. The Lett:
counter-attacked and captured
some prisoners. The Let's tool
six villages between Dvinsk ani
Antopol and occupied the station
of Pytalovo.
Reschitza, the advices say, is sur.
rounded on three sides and It is be.
lieved that if the Poles create {
demonstration from the south /
hurried retreat of the bolshevil
forces on this front would be
caused.
Attacks Break Down.
| Warsaw, Thursday. Jan. Ia
General attacks by bolshevik force,
against Lettish and Polish position,
east Of the Dvinsk river nv,
broken down after desperat.
struggle in which Lettish force,
played prominent part accorilin,
, TO an ohicial statement issncd 4,
general stan headouaxtexs 8.