Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-03 | Page 11 | Denikin Closing in on Bolsheviki

DENIKIN CLOSING IN ON BDLSHEVIKI By HAROLD WILLIAMS. (Now York Time Cable, Copyright) KKATKUINOIMU, South Itotisla, June 17. ( Delayed ) Tho front of t Jen. -nil Denlkln armies ha now become an Irregular Ir-regular hulK' which continues to hVlU out In nil dlrectloiiH. Tli Jiolshovisi lIliHlonhurK Una In broken, systematic opt rut Ioiim for 1 1 in capture of Tsarlttiln arc well uniler voy, part of General Writ tittle's forces are advancing ad-vancing southeast along the Vola to Chornol, by far the most Important town between Taarttsln anil Astrakhan, and tho fore - that advanced across the dreary Astrakhan steppes has reached the Volga not far north of Ast rukhan town and the fate of the Itolslieclkl on Urn lower Volga Is sealed. The Insurgent i-osmieks of the Fpper Don now are wholly absorbed In l'nlkln's front, ft nit beyond I heir lino again the con-nicks of t he Khoper district, In t he j extreme northeast of the lon territory, j have risen In their turn and will soon j coalesce with t heir fallows To the northwest and west of these districts tli" I rout Is Amazingly complete. At ami near t Kharkov the other day there Was a block of 1.10 trains, consisting of 6o(m wagons, containing red troop In full rctral. ; Antl-Bolshevlkl attacked the trains and I disarmed many Of the soldiers. Last I week 370 of I enlkln's men forced the pasn.-ig of the northern Donctz against I 3000 of the enemy. 1 Further, the Bolshevist morale I com- j pletvly smashed by the appearance of the . Hr It Is It tanks, of Russian soldiers In ; British uniforms, and bv the stimulating ' effect of iVnlkln's liberal proelnmat ions I the spell of Trotsky" shrinking propa- . ganria Is broken. The late emperor's t rain, in which I Trotzkv travels, barely escaped capture j by cossacks when they seized Izlum last week. The Ninth soviet army has been annihilated, anni-hilated, and the Eighth and Thirteenth are in full retreat. Wherever possible, Trotzky's "mobilized peasantry'" stream over submissively lto Ienlk!n's lines, where they are well Treated and, In most cases, trained to tight, and light very well. In the Russian army against Iol-shevlsm.