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Show KDLGHAK GALLED i ispiffl' Czech Leader Declares That Hope Under Admiral's Leadership Is in Vain. PEKIN, Sunday, Dec. 28. The social revolutionary troops aro reported re-ported to have taken possession of Irkutsk, near tlie bo uthea stern end of Lake Baikal. Admiral Kol-chak's Kol-chak's soldiers are holding the town. SHANGHAI, China, Tec. 23. General H. Gaida, the L'S-year-olO Czech loader, who is perhaps the single dominating military mil-itary figure that appeared in Russia in The course of the war, is in Shanghai, and from thin haven, to which he fled early in December, when he was deported from A'ladivosink, he is watching events in Siberia. Si-beria. Gaida was t lie storm renter of the abortive revolt against the Kolchak government gov-ernment at Vladivostok on November 16 and 17. Gaida has not pid definitely . that he intends to return to Siberia. He has been reticent of what he lias in mind for the future, intimating merely that his .-lay ;n Shanghai will be Indefinite. He has admitted, however, that he promised 1 ho Siberian revolutionists that he would aconpt the post of commander-in-chief of the Russian army if they succeeded in setting up a new government. Gaida has broken utterly with Kolchak and asserts th:a Kolehak's downfall is Russia's only hope. Gaida denies that ho Inspired the revolt. re-volt. In discussing the general -situation in Siberia, lie said he felt before he left Omsk last July that Kolchak was doomed to full, either before the rising tide of Hohshivism. which, lie says, is in a fair iiy now to engulf all Russia, or before an uprising of the common people of Siberia, Si-beria, who, according to Gaida. thoroughly thorough-ly distrust Kolchak as much as they dread ho Rolshlvlki. "The people of Siberia," he said, "the common people, realize as fully as I do that at bottom Kolchak is a reactionary that his whole regime aims only to con-o,ucr con-o,ucr all that opposes it with "the end of re-establishing an autocracy in Russia." "Only two things," he went on. "can save Russia now from coming under the : nil control of the Bolshevik i bayonets or a really democratic government." Vladivostok dispatches received December Decem-ber 27 reported that Admiral Kolchak had retired from active command on account of ill health, appointing General Semenoff to succeed him as commander-in-chief. COPENHAGEN. Dec. 29. The soviet government at Moscow has sent a formal peace offer to t lie Polish government by wireless. The message denies that the Kolsheviki are preparing a new offensive against Poland with the aid of Chinese forces. Geneva advices under date of December 2 said" that Leon Trotzky. the soviet minister of war, was preparing for a great offensive against Poland next spring. Chinese troops, recruited at the rate of fcitOfi a day and trained in the soviet military mil-itary school, would aid the Bolsheviki in the campaign, the advices declared. |