The Monmouth inquirer., 1922-09-07
SOUTH RUSSIA
IN REVOLT
Revolution Is Accompanied by
Bloody Encounters, Accord
ing to Berlin Advices.
ODESSA LEADER OF RISING
Local Soviet Said to Have Proclaimed
Independence ~ State Department
Official Doubts That Revolt
Could Succeed Now.

Couiu succeed NOW.
London.--A dispatch to the Daily
Mail from Berlin says report has
been received in the German capital
that the Odessa soviet has purged itself
of Bolshevism, proclaimed its inde-
pendence of Moscow and called upon
all citizens to unite against the "com-
munist usupers."
The report alleges that the whole sf
South Russia has joined with Odessa
and that the revolution has been at
tended by bloody encounters.
e Washington the State Depart-
ment there was no official confirmation
Of Berlin reports of revolution in
southern Russia. One high administra-
tion official conyersant and in intimate
touch with conditions in Russia said
that he had received no advices to this
effect and he expressed doubt as to
whether movement against TIE Mos
COW regime could succeed at present.
He pointed out that although large
percentage of the population around
tfe Black Sea is of non-Slavic origin,
ifcIuding many Greeks hostilesto soviet
IDEAS they are poorly organized and
would be ill-equipped for conflict with
the Red Army. 1t is the. practice OF
the Moscow Bolshevist government, ne
said, to garrison cities with troops
from other parts of Russia who have
little I'm common with the populace in
localities where they are stationed.
Particularly is this true, he declared,
of southern Russia, where a strong
force under orders from Moscow is
stationed as a precaution against
repitition of the various anti-com-
munistic enterprises that have origi-
mated in this territory. Unless the Red
Army stationed in southern Russia re-
pudiated it's Moscow leadership, this
official expressed the doubt whether re-
volt on the part of the Odessa Soviet
gould amount to any more than flash
IN the pan.
In the absence of any information IS
TO whether troops from the Red Army
had gone over to the Odessa Soviet,
it was assumed that the backing for
the movement reported in Berlin dis
patches came mainly from the foreign
4 element. It was said by the admins
fration official that in his opinion any
movement against the Moscow govern
ment must be Of Russian origin in
order to spread and succeed.
Recent Activities of Anti-BoIsheviki
The report from Berlin that the Boil
shevist regime had been overthrown
in southeastern Russia may be con-
nected with the recent activlti IS of the
former commanders of the White
Army, or anti-Bolsheyist Army, which
once operated in that region, General
Denikin and his successor, General
Baron Peter Wrangel.
Odessa isssituated on the southern
coast Of the Black Sea about 400 miles
north-northeast of Constantinople.
where the Embassy of the Russian
provisional government is still main
tained. under the protection of the
Interallied Commission. Odessa was
the third mercantile city in Russia and
the fifth in population, having 5O0,000
inhabitants in the last days of Gar
Nicholas. During the operations Of
Denikin's White Army in 1919 and the
early weeks of 1920, 1t formed Den:-
kin,s protection ofShis left wing.
In the spring of 1920, after having
been unsuccessfully contended for by
the. Poles and Ukranians, the Bolshe-
Wiki took control, and although a
French feet was in the harbor, it was
forced to remain neutral owing to the
threatened mutiny of the Reds among
the crew if the officers made any at
tempt 4 to arescueltfe city. st
BY this time Denikin had retired
from the command ofgthe White Army,
which had been forced further east
and south and into the Grimean Pen
insaa, being succeeded by Wrangel,
who retreated to Sebastopal where he
and his army were tranported to Con-
stantinopie in the last days of 1920.