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Show M TO FIGHT fSM RED Startling and New Development De-velopment Created by Situation in Bolshevik-Controlled Russia. Soviet Forces Steadily Gaining and Germans Are to Attempt Their Crushing in Battle. By FLOYD GIBBONS. Chicago Tribune rulilo Copyright. 1 j I'AKIS St. 11. Have th allies i won tin war? Has (Yrrnnny born deprusMnnized ? Is tin world now at p?;uc? The com posit i answer is No. .... i Fifteen soviet armies arc in the field today as victors. German forces LJOO.OOO sir-iug are! moving toward Moscow and lVtroe;raL Twentv fii;l:tine; fronts art aldaze across Kuniv and Aoa trom tho Wliitc 1 to I ho Black i-t'a. i As the IVench say "Cost la l'aix ! Mais." Kuropt? is on fire, and throuph flames of hate tliore come daily glimpses of a j;rowinf condition which I , will .shock the peoples of the allied world when it is revealed by the developments de-velopments of the next few weeks. GERMANS NOW WITH ALLIES AGAINST REDS. That shock will register when it realized tJormany, far from being st ripped of her old nmlutions. is preparing pre-paring to reaiirp them in their fullest meaning in the east. I That shock will resistor still harder j when the realization comes that tier- j many is doing this with the knowledge of the nllie.s, and that in prnetiec there j exists at present an understanding be- I twoon Germany and tho entente, which, i in effect, amounts to counter-revolutionary alliance against tho Bolsheviki. In other wordy, t lie Hoches a no no longer enemies. They are allies, and the new enemy is Russia. Kvery evidence evi-dence ohtainahle here indicates this startling turn in events. Tho allies', without tho nsistance of Germany, hav failed to thrust down Bolshevism. This is a. long suppressed admission. It is based on the fact that on every front the "Bolsheviks ; have been able not only to resist all efforts of the forces opposed to them, but in all nee en t instances they have been able to drive those forces back. These defeats of the anti-Iiolshevist (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) I supplies over the disrupted trans Siberian Sibe-rian railway. German Offer of Aid. Thus credited, first, with a refusal to recognize the Soviets and, second, with failure to suppress militarily the uprend of red rule, through ilussia, tho directing, forces among tho allies find themselves today facing an offer from a power that ciaims the ability to restore re-store liussia to reason and at tho same time protect allied financial interests invested thero under tho reign of tho czar. The offer is "made in Germany." You der Goltz hus offered 'Mo save the allies." Voil der Goltz, with boasted Prussian efficiency, is willing to guarantee suppression sup-pression of Bolshevism in Kussia. The German commander with forces approximating approx-imating 200,0110 men is now on the outskirts out-skirts of Kiga. Nominally at tho head of these forces is the former Russian prince Licwin, but every report from the Baltic Bal-tic brings the bald statement that von der Goltz is tho directing genius and that the exiled Russian nobleman is only a figurehead being used by the Germans. German agents are- also operating within the Kussinn lines fomenting tho reds to further attacks nlong the Baltic Bal-tic fronts that tho situation will bo brought to a head sooner. Germany's armed forces now number approximately approximate-ly 800,000 men. Demobilization Stopped. For some strange reason the peace treaty edict , of immediate demobilization demobiliza-tion has been stopped. For some strnngo reason at this particular moment mo-ment tho allies hnvo begun repatriating thousands of German soldiers imprisoned impris-oned in Knglaud and France. For some strange reason the allies permit continued contin-ued recruiting of German soldiers, officers offi-cers nnd generals for tho so-called Russian Rus-sian army. Tho British on the Archangol and Murmansk fronts are in n tight place for the coming winter when the red 11 TO FIGHT WITH ALLIES AGIST ID (Continued from Pago One.) I efforts of the entente may be itemized as follows: Beginning at the northern terminal of the front which now rings Ilussia it is apparent that the British on tho Archangol nnd Murmansk fronts have been badly defeated by the reds. ENGLAND FORCED TO ABANDON PLANS. England has been forced publicly to announce a plan of withdrawal of her forces threaten to annihilate them. Thero is great anxiety to relieve them. Invasion from tho west, reaching Petro-fjrnd Petro-fjrnd before Christmas, would accomplish accom-plish this result. Such an invasion by an anti-Bolshevik force from the Baltic would then open up a way for land communication com-munication between Archangel and Petrograd nnd thereby offer a way out for the trapped British forces In Archangel. forcos on the White sea, but at the same time it ia now known that the ieo j has set ji), nnd the allied expeditionary forces Under the Arctic circle must remain re-main there until spring. England is physically unable to reinforce rein-force them, not only on account of the ico which prevents transportation, but by reason of the fact thnt British soldiers sol-diers destined for Russian service mutiny mu-tiny at Southampton when an effort is mado to embark them on ships. At the same time British lnbor is demanding a complete withdrawal from tho Russian mess. South of Petrogrnd along the lino approximately ap-proximately from Riga to Minsk, the Bolsheviks are opposed by three different differ-ent allied forces on the Lithuanian nnd Lettish fronts. Against tho Lithuanians the reds htirlod heavy forces which two weeks ago drove them back farther from the lino at Pskov. Thousands of the Whito army deserted to the reds and the remainder re-mainder retired demoralized. On tho Esthonian and Lettish fronts the Letts and Esthonians, having been offered peace nnd no molestation by the reds, have practically reached the point of fraternization. HELD IN CHECK BY HOPE OF INDEPENDENCE. Theso little peoples are prevented from accepting the red offer publicly by reason of a desire to gain recognition recogni-tion and support of their independence by tho allies. Interspersed with the Lithuanians, Esthonians nnd Letts are bodies of so-called so-called Russian soldiers of nlleged anti-Bolshevik anti-Bolshevik persuasion. Now more than suspicion has been aroused that moro than half their numbers are in reality former German soldiers who have enlisted. en-listed. While enlisting in Germany for this service they took out Russian citizenship citi-zenship papers under the well known Prussian law that this act not only doesn't weaken their German citizenship, citizen-ship, but on the contrary strengthens it. South from Minsk to a point northwest north-west of Kiev the reds are opposed by the Polish army which has been fighting fight-ing without allied support and which is now tired. Then comes the Galician and Ukrainian fronts, the latter commanded com-manded by Petlura, whose constancy to the allied cause is questionable, inasmuch inas-much as he refuses to recognize either Kolchak or Penikine and maintains himself as an independent .raiding chief. Greeks Are Lukewarm. From the Ukraine south, the Bolsheviks Bolshe-viks arc opposed by Rumanians and some Greeks, both of whom are now disaffected with the cause of the allies. First, the Rumanians resent the allied ultimatum that they withdraw from Budapest. The allies have stopped shipment of munitions to Rum.mia. The Greeks are far from happy over the allied refusal of the Greek demands in Thrace. From Odessa westward Denikine has encountered failure time and again on both his west and east fronts, and this in spite of the fact that British warships war-ships assisted in driving the reds back ; from Odessa and have been landing millions of francs' worth of supplies and equipment on the Black .-ea coast. Continuing the iron circle kolchak 's front extending northward from the Cnipian sea to the Urals has suffered repeated defeats al the hands of tlie Int. 4th, Pith, and 14th soviet armies, While farther norrh still, anti-Bolshevik forces in the Urals and on the Siberian Si-berian front have been nbV to save themselves only bv repeated withdrawals with-drawals in face of the enemy. This front is mainly held by Siberian snows. These nnli-Kolslvvik forces have suffered suf-fered severely from the inadequacies of |