The Elbert County tribune., 1920-01-23
REDS WIN VICTORIES
POWERS MEET IN PARIS TO DIS.
cUss RUSSIAN SITUATION.
ANARCHISTS CAPTURE ADMIRAL
kOLcHAk. HEAD OF Si6ER-
IAN GOVERNMENT.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
London, Jan. 16.-Further capture
of prisoners on the Turkestan front is
reported in "A Bolshevik communique
sent out by wireless from Moscow.
Eastward of Guriev, eleven miles In
land from the Caspian sea on the Ural
river. the Red armies are reported 20
have tnken the fourth and fifth divi-
sions of the anti-soviet forces, togcth-
err with the commander-in-ch of the
fourth division.
South OF Chernyi Yara, 100 miles
northwest of Astrakhan on the volga
river, the Bolsheviki hlso claim to have
captured 600 prisoners.
London.-The reports of the capture
Russian government in Siberia, have
been confirmed 1t is declared In Mos
COW wireless. The British military
mission with General Denikine at the
latter's headquarters In Ekaterinador
reports that the Caucasus army In the
line behind the Aksni river repulsed In
heavy fighting five frontal attacks and
an attempt to turn Its left flank
I.ondon.-Before peace with Germany
is week old, the British public has
been brought up sharply against the
possibility Of another war Winston
Spencer Churchill. secretary of war;
Waiter Hume Lon. first lord OF the ad-
miralty Baron Beatty. commander OF
the grand fleet, and Field Marshal Sir
Henry H. Wilson, chief of the imperial
staff. left London, having been hur-
riedly summoned TO Paris for CON
sultaiion with Premier Lloyd George
and other British officials there on i'm
portunt military and naval matters.
This summons Is inevitably connect
ed in the public mind with the semi
official statement published calling at
tention to the threatening situation in
the middle East as II result of Bol>he-
visit military successes. which have
givnc the soviets virtual mastery of
ihe whole of European Russia for. al
though it is not yet confirmed that
they have entered Odessa, 1t is be-
lieved il cannot he long before they are
IN full possession of the coast regions
in That vicinity
by their victories, the Bolsheviki
have obtained command of enormous
supplies of food, raw materials. coal
and rolling stock and other means of
transport of which they formerly We're
III need.
Speculation is active in the Europ-
can capitals as 10 what will be the next
u
move of the Bolsheviki. II Is regarded
,ls certain that. flushed with success,
they Will not he content with their
present conquests, but Will seek to ex-
end Boi slevism either eastward or
westward Expert military opinion in-
clnes 10 the belief that their next
move will be an attack on Poland and
he Baltic states and Warsaw dis
pntchcs to the London papers already
Indicate that the Poles are fully antici-
pating such ii move.
The semi-officinl statement issued at
London seems TO indicate that the
British government is more appre-
hcnsive of move eastward, threaten
ing India.
All these possibilities will be dis
cussed by the important conference as
sembling mt Paris. 1t is perhaps sig
nificant in connection with possible
Bolshevist activities in the Middle East
and the attitude of the MosIem popu-
lations generally toward England that,
whereas a fortnight ago it was stated
that Premier Lloyd George had been
victorious In carrying the British view
i'm fuvol of excluding the Turks from
constantinople and removing the cap
ital of the new Turkey to Asia Minor,
against the wishes of Premier Clemen-
ceau and The French statesmen who
wished to retain the Turks In Constan-
tinople, 1t is stated now that the
French view is prevailing in the Paris
conference.