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Show unwn CHIEF MflE General Denikin Confident of Eventual Success at Arms. BY HAROLD WILUAMS. (New York Times Cablo Copyright.) KKATKIUNODAR', Caucasus, June 6, (via London, June 22). General Denikin received me today. Throughout the whole revolution I have not seen another Russian Rus-sian leader who inspires such confidence at first sight. This is the man, who, after the Kornil-off Kornil-off affair of 1917, was arrested by order of the provisional government in Iierrtl-cheff Iierrtl-cheff and brutally insulted and spat upon by hordes of demoralized soldiers; who, with Alexicff and Kornlluff, led that for-.lorn for-.lorn and desperate struggle into the Steppes, and who, not very Ions ago, at the head of his troops advanced in pursuit pur-suit of the reds over a burning bridge at Torgovaya. I heard it, asserted in London that T)enikin was a reactionary. No appellation appella-tion could be more inept, He is a man, a patriot and a soldier, moved by single- ; minded devotion to Russia. He is unversed un-versed In political iiffnlrs, but progressive in his ideas and is fighting a hard and clean battle against the most treacherous a nd most unscrupulous enemy that ever devastator. the territory and soul of a great nation. Of the recent successes of Ida army he, spoke without elation, but with quiet satisfaction. sat-isfaction. He dwelt, too, on his recent agrarian and labor reforms to which he evidently attached great Importance. The, military position continues to improve. 1 In three weeks the volunteer army has trebled Its territory. Only three weeks ago guns could be heard at Novocherkas and red patrols were within .twenty miles of the town. Since then on the whole front from the Caspian to the Sea of Azof four red armies have been thoroughly defeated de-feated and lost half their number anil are still retreating. Penlkln's forces captured cap-tured 22.00U prisoners, lf0 guns, 250 machine ma-chine guns, 4 armored trains and an immense im-mense quantity of other booty. Along the T sari t sin railway General "Wrangol's force of Kuban and Terek Cossacks Cos-sacks and Kabanline cavalry have, in nineteen days, covered two -thirds of the distance from Torgovaya to Tsaritsin, and are now within seventy miles of that important Volga town. driving before thorn the routed and demoralized enemy. In the Don territory the energetic northward push of the Don Cossacks will very soon en l i rely have freed the Don from the red fnn-us. Almost more renin rkn hie Is the rapid westward movement into t lie Kka terino-slav terino-slav government where, largely through the action of tanks and the daring raids of General shkuro's horsemen, the Donetz basin has been conquered and the reds are retiring with such speed that if continued con-tinued it would threaten the early fall of Kharttoff and FMn terinoslav. The topographical conditions arc very greatly different on parts of the front. In the Tsa ritsi n direction war is waged In the drearv steppes haunted by nomads, whose camels gazo in dull perplexity st the charges nf General Dlgais's eavalrv. In the west the waves of battle roll through thickly populated industrial and mining districts, where the sud'len capture cap-ture of railwav junctions is of vital importance. im-portance. Two more such important junctions. Slaviansk and Yama, have lust been seized by the victorious volunteer i a rm y. |