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Show DENEKINE'S MARCH. Euesian advices indicate that General Gen-eral Denekine has 6wept onward from the Black sea and has planted the standard of sane government well into the heart of the Russian nation. He controls tho greater part of the coal producing and corn-growing areas of his country and is gathering to his army many men from the provinces through which he is marching. But there are others who apparently do not altogether welcome his arrival and who might, should opportunity arise, .combine .com-bine to deal him a blow. In the rural districts generally the inhabitants are overjoyed at the prospect pros-pect of a return to decent conditions of life, but in the many great industrial indus-trial centers which Denekine now controls con-trols there is a strong bolshevist element, ele-ment, and the bulk of the working classes look with suspicion and distrust upon the liberating armies. These workers fear that the Buccess of Denekine Dene-kine will mean a return to the old conditions of life and government. Possibly it is the situation of Denekine Dene-kine 's staff that is responsible for the distrust of what is termed the "proletariat." "prole-tariat." It is known that the anti-bolshevist anti-bolshevist general is surrounded by men who held high rank in the old imperial im-perial army. They are good men, fired with a splendid patriotism and out only to save Eussia from anarchy and chaos, but they have defects of qualities defects de-fects arising out of a purely military training and the narrowed outlook of a soldier's life. Denekine is bound to entrust to these men the provisional administration of reclaimed provinces, and there is danger dan-ger that their rule, carried out on military mili-tary lines, may prove irksome and distasteful dis-tasteful to masses whose minds are seething with ill-formed ideas of personal per-sonal liberty and political rights. It is easy to imagine the disaster that would occur should there be a rising of these people in Denekine 's rear. |