New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-01-23
REDS WIN VICTORIES
POWERS MEET IN PARIS TO DIS.
CUSS RUSSIAN SITUATION.
ANARCHISTS CAPTURE ADMIRAL
kOlCHAk, HEAD OF SlBER-
IAN GOVERNMENT.

Western Ne~spsp-r Union News s-rvics
London, Jan. l6.-Further capture
of prisoners on the TurkcStnn front is
reported in Il BolShevik %commnnique
sent out by wireless from Moscow.
Eastward of Guriev, eleven miles in
land from the Caspian SEA on the TRIAL
river, the Red armies are reported 20
have taken the fourth aud fifth divi-
sions Of The anti-soViet forces, togrlli-
er with the commander-in-chief of the
fourth division.
South OF ChernNi lara, 40 miles
northwest of Astrakhan ON The Nolgn
river, the Bolsheyiki also claim 10 have
captured 600 prisoners.
London. The reports of III" capture
of Admiral kolchnk, head of the all
Russian government in Siberia, have
been confirmed il is declared in Il Mos
COW wireless. The British military
mission with General bcnikine at the
%laitcr'S headquarters in Ekatrrintdor
reports that the Caucasus army in the
line behind the Ak>ni river rcpulsr'l in
heavy fighting five frontal attacks and
an attempt To turn itS left flank,
LOudou.-Bcfore peace with Germany
is a week old, the British public has
been brought MP sharply against the
possibility of another war. Winston
Spencer Churchill, secretary of war;
Matter Hume Lon. FIRST lord of the adj
miralty Baron Beatty, commander of
The grand fleet, and Field Marshal Sir
Henry ii. Wilson, chief of tn" imperial
staff. left London, having been lur-
richly summoned to Paris for Il con
Sultation with Premier Lloyd George
and other British officials there on i'm
portant military and naval matters.
This summons is inevitably connect
ed in the public mind with the semi
official statement published calling at
lention IL the threatening situation in
the middle East as II result of Holsl"-
visit military successes, which have
givne the Soviets virtual mastery of
the whole OF European RusSia for. al
though il is not Vet confirmed that
they have entered Odessa. it is he.
Iie,ed ii cannot be long befor" they ar"
in fun possession of the coast regions
in that vicinity.
BY their victories, the l'olsheyiki
have obtained command of enormous
supplies of food. raw materials, coal
and rolling stock and other means OF
transport of which They formerly were
IN need.
Speculation is active in the Europ-
move of the Bolsle,iki. II is regarded
as certain that, flushed with success,
they viii not be content with their
present c%onquests, but will seek To ex'
tend B~olshevism either eastward or
westward. Expert military opinion in
clinrs 10 the belief that their next
move will be an attack on Poland and
the Baltic tatcs and Warsaw dis
patches to the London papers already
indicate that The Poles are fully antici-
paiing such "A move.
The scmi-official statement issued M
London seems Ia indicate that the
British government is more apprc-
hensivr of n move eastward, threaten
ing India.
All these possibilities will be dis
by the important conference as
Srmbling al Paris. II is perhaps sig
~nificant in connection with possible
Bolshevisl activities in the Middle East
and the attitude Of the MoSlcm popu-
generally toward England that.
whereas a fortnight ago il was stated
that Premier Lloyd George had been
victorious in carrying the British view
in favor OF excluding the Turks from
Constantinoplr aud removing the cap
ltal of the new Turkey To Asia Minor,
against the wishes of Premier flemrn-
ceau and the French statesmen who
Wished to retain The Turks IN tonSlan- +,
ilnople, il il stated nov hat the
view is prevailing i ~ The Paris :
conference.