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Show SIBERIA FACES HARD WINTER orders of Lenlne and Trotzky. The president of this section is Trlllisser. Best Army in Siberia. West of this is the so-called Nerchinsk Ner-chinsk government, in reality a branch of the Blagovieshchensk administration. ad-ministration. From Nerchinsk recently re-cently marched the best drilled and best equipped army in Siberia, a force of fighters whipped into shape by regular staff officers sent from Moscow some four months ago. Led by tanks and escorted by airplanes, air-planes, (his force descended upon Chita about two weeks ago, driving Ataman Semenoff from his erstwhile capital and herding him and the remnants rem-nants of Knppell's array back along tbe Chinese Eastern railway to the Mancburian line. Kappell's army is what is left of the force raised by General Kappell fromNimong the hardy artisans, mechanics me-chanics and factory workers of the Ural when the Bolsheviki first began their campaign of atrocities. These men fought alongside the Czechs against the Reds until their gallant leader met death by freezing. ' Since then they have stayed together tinder one general after another, their latest commander, Vergbitsky, being killed in the retreat from Chita. This force Is bitterly anti-Bolshevik and is associating with the troops of Ataman Semenoff only through want of better company. A great suspicion Is entertained of Semenoff, somewhat allayed at the time when the Ataman telegraphed his acknowledgment of the supremacy of General Wrangel. West of the Nerchinsk territory comes the Verkhne-Udinsk government, govern-ment, controlling the district between the Yabionoi mountains and Lake Baikal. To all intents and purposes this is a branch of Moscow, but less openly so than the Nerchinsk crowd, and is claiming a paramount place in the formation of the Far Eastern republic, the buffer state which Japan desires to see created, but which appears to be as far off as ever. The Verkhne-Udinsk president is Tobenson, alias Krasnoschekeff. Headed for Mongolia. It is from this section that Baron Ungern, an Independent leader, is heading an invasion of Mongolia, his force now being somewhere near Urga and clashing with a Chinese army dispatched with a rush to defend I the Mongolian capital. Ungern had ' led his men against Verkhne-Udinsk ; (the name of the capital city as well as of the republic) in the hope of cap- turing it and of establishing a new j center of anti-Bolshevism, but was defeated and driven south. It is not positively known as yet whether bis ; drive against Urga is n real attempt ' to capture it for the purpose of estab- Famine and Death Expected to Take Their Toll of the Miserable Mis-erable Population. ANTI-SOVIET FORGES LOSE Half Dozen Governments Set Up In as Many Areas 35,000 Japanese Remain In Country Near Vladivostok. Tokyo. All the news that filters Sown from Siberia, through the various vari-ous propaganda bureaus and from in-Jependent in-Jependent correspondents, Indicates that things In that section of the tvorld are' rapidly going from bad to tvorse, with the prospect that this tvlnter will find woe and misery as widespread as during last winter, with death and famine taking toll of the miserable population now crowded crowd-ed Into the.- various centers along ivhat Is left of the Trans-Siberian railroad. rail-road. The drift everywhere, from the Pacific to Lake Baikal, Is plainly, in the direction of sovletism, with a large part of the country openly following fol-lowing the Instructions received from Moscow. The anti-Bolshevik forces ire being exterminated, forced across the Mongolian and Mancburian bor-3ers bor-3ers or herded into corners where Ihey must fight like cornered rats. The Japanese still have about 35,000 en In Siberia, including 5,000 occu-. Jylng northern Zaghallen. The great najorlty of these are In and around Vladivostok, having withdrawn from all interior points. The last impor-iant impor-iant place evacuated was Khabarovsk, Into which the Partisans marched on the heels of tbe Japanese what was left of the bourgeoisie fleeing before them. Roughly speaking, there are today six separate governments functioning between tbe Pacific and Lake Baikal, west of which Moscow has a shaky hold. No Organized Government. The Vladivostok government at the time of writing, a semi-communistic organization from which the Social Democrats and Cadets have recently separated Is headed by President Medviedoff. This controls that comparatively thickly populated section of the Maritime province between be-tween the Pacific and tbe Manchu- I rian border from Vladivostok north to a point a short distance south of Khabarovsk. The rest of the Maritime province and the eastern section of the Amur province (about 200 miles wide) Is controlled by the Partisans, without Rny organized government and with do particular ascertainable aims except ex-cept that of plunder, murder and rapine. The de facto head of tbe Partisans just now Is Flegontoff, if sheer anarchy can be said to have a head. The Blagovieshchensk government controls the rest of the Amur, roughly rough-ly Skebeltsina to Sbllka marking tbe eastern and western limits of the territory ter-ritory controlled. This government is openly soviet, acknowledging Moscow Mos-cow as supreme and accepting the j lishing an independent Mongolia, in co-operation with Semenoff, or whether he merely feels that he must have some place in which to winter and obtain supplies. Semenoff has a force estimated at 15,000 men, while the Kappell arirfy now with him was 30,000 before the Chita defeat. West of Lake Baikal is soviet territory ter-ritory with Moscow's control undisputed undis-puted by any regular organization. A number of counter-revolutions have been reported from that section, however. All the news is fragmentary fragmen-tary and unconfirmed, but It is believed be-lieved that tbe Irkutsk region Is fairly fair-ly quiet, while farther west and south peasant revolts are reported from Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk and Novo-Nikolaeievsk Novo-Nikolaeievsk and others from Semipal-atinsk, Semipal-atinsk, Barnaul and Bilsk. Japanese Military Missions. The Japanese- have military missions mis-sions still at Verkhne-Udinsk, under Colonel Isome; at Chita and Blagovieshchensk, Blagovi-eshchensk, while General 01 is in general gen-eral command of the Japanese in Siberia, with headquarters at Vladivostok. Vladi-vostok. The activities of the Nerchinsk government in seizing Chita may furnish an excuse for further Japanese Japan-ese activities in interior Siberia, the terms of the recent armistice between the Russian factions and tbe Japanese Japan-ese being that there should be no soviet so-viet activities east of Lake Baikal. Public opinion in Japan, however, Is decidedly against any further Siberian Sibe-rian adventure. Reports come from China that there is a belief in Peking and in Mongolia itself that the Japanese are behind the Ungern invasion of that province, but there IS nothing in the attitude of the authorities here nor in press comments on the attack upon Urga to substantiate any such belief. |