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Show TTTich the Russian Bolshevists are reduced may have a material bear-in bear-in on events of the immediate future. Trrradual encircling movement directed a-rlinst the center of Bolshevism, Pet-rograd, Pet-rograd, has been under way for months. The effect has been to throw a wal of anti-Bolshevist forces around central Russia, narrowing the territory held by the soviet to a comparatively small area. The troops of Admiral Kolchak have been striking west in the general direction direc-tion of Moscow and now hold a general gen-eral line through Glatzov, Sarapul and Kinel to Orenburg on the Ural river, while due north of Moscow the allied Archangel front runs south to Vologad and thence west to the Gulf of Onega, where it connect with the Murmansk sector. Here the anti-Bolshevist "ring is taken up in effect by the Finns. The circle is completed by the front occupied occu-pied by the Czechoslovak armies. There has been an absence of direct communication with Petrograd and Moscow Mos-cow for some time past. All information informa-tion filtering through to the outside world has come from points remote from these Bussian centers. The wires are controlled by the Bolshevists. The very silence of the Eussian government govern-ment may be accepted as ominous. What is transpiring in the heart of the distressed dis-tressed section of Kvhsia controlled by Lenine and Trotzky can only be imagined. im-agined. But it is not improbable that events are shaping themselves for the better, so far as Russia's future is concerned. con-cerned. The only question was the length of its endurance. The policy which counseled the allies to set their face against any recognition' of this impossible im-possible system 'of government as a means of restoring order in Russia and ending the menace of Bolshevism in other lands has been vindicated. It is only required that moral and material support be given to the Russians engaged en-gaged in what promises to prove a successful suc-cessful battle against the forces of social so-cial demoralization RUSS REDS LOSING. Two developments in Bolshevist-cursed Bolshevist-cursed European countries will encourage encour-age those who have been looking for indications that tho reign of this species spe-cies of governmental insanity was near-ing near-ing the end. One is the evacuation of Petrograd by the Bolshevists, the oilier tho reported overthrow of tho red regime re-gime in Budapest. The fall of the Hungarian Hun-garian soviet government has been expected ex-pected for several days, the Bolshevist forces standing against the l;.,,,,;,,,!,-,,,., having been driven bad; until the -afcly of the capital v."n t ii-.k.-, , ,. Th0 evacuation of Petrograd may prove. Lo he the initial break in the structure, erected by the radical leaders in I!u3. -ia, leading to the complete ilisinioora-tion ilisinioora-tion of the liolsheviki government." ' 'ouplcd with the action of the H,ln. ,:man soviet in sig fr ,,..,, v.iU Unman. a and Iho allied ,.-,,,,,, ; ,,, Archangel and .Murniat.ok hecmrj, the |