Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-12-13 | Page 4 | Russ Red Army Reports Victory

BUSS "BED IB ! REPORTS VIGTOFiY I Continued Reverses to Non-j i Bolshevist Troops Claimed by the Radicals. j . IKKi'TSK, lh-: tl'.y t",e A-.n. .t l'rrss) T:,e ret irciiu-nl of the Sibvr.an , army continues a::d the I ;u!s;ie il-.i a ;c within fifty miles of .ou N i kolae'.sk, toe evacuation i wiiuh Las been oi'catly haini'ered l..y lack ol fuel. l.CiyijOS, Iiec. 12. The capture of! Kharkov, in southern Kii.-s:.i, which has! b'-eu one of the t as-s nf (l-ne-al I "Mii- kin.-, is annome ed m a Moscow official j d:s;.ateii r.-r-d c.t i,v Mi'-ie.-.s tudav. Ti;i; oc.'ir.ation vi Valki, about twenty j miles son th v, et i.f i ri'.ov, also ii i ciiiMied hy toe I'ois!ie iki. l.'Uiiiun ills patches on the I Russian sit- j nation, rci',-;vd tday, I'eported the soviet t coops within r'ii ty i tales of Kharkov, 1 widen the Bolsheviki were approaching in J their general offensive alon.n several hundred hun-dred miles of the sou tii w os i em front. I.OXIh.iX, I.ec. 1 2. An official state-mei.t state-mei.t issued by the war office today says volunteers of Genera 1 l.ieiiiUine's ai my, eiiny miles east of Kiev, have been driven driv-en out of l'n-yatin in the government of 1'oltava. The statement says tho Denikino forces have fallen back to a defeiisie line a Ion. i,' the Poltava -Kiev railway, but are defending themselves successfnliy in P'O-sitions P'O-sitions cncirciiuj; Kiev on a twenty-mile ladius. liolshevlk attacks continuo along the FsLhonian front, south of tho Gnlf of Kinland, and east of Narva, according to an official Ksthonlan statement issued is-sued Wednesday night. Bitter fighting has been going on along tho Kor'ostell Feodorovka Yam burg see lor, but all attacks at-tacks have been repulsed by the lCsthon-ians, lCsthon-ians, it is said. JioIsheviU forces have again heavily attacked at-tacked the left flank of General Deni-kine's Deni-kine's army and driven the latter'a volunteers vol-unteers back to a depth of thirty or forty miles along a front from three to lour hundred miles long. The Reds arc 'within fifty miles of Kharkov and Poltava, and are swinging around to the southeast of Kiev, 'which also is threatened from the northeast, according to news from south Russia. The situation situa-tion gives rise to anxiety. On the Caucasus front, however, the 'Bolsheviki have been repulsed before Tzaritzan with heavy losses. lJ'on Cossacks Cos-sacks also have been successful in p.ush-ing p.ush-ing back the Reds. An official statement issued at Bolshevik Bol-shevik headquarters in Moseiw confirms reports that severe f iphting lias taken place in tho .Narva region. It is claimed that many prisoners have been captured. On the eastern front the infantry of both Denikine and the Kolshevikl is sup-Id sup-Id ied with sledges, upon which the men ride into battle. Because of the severe weather little serious fighting is going on here, the main aetivily being artillery artil-lery duels between armored trains. The. Siberians have an enormous amount of artillery, about one gun to each 100 men, which is out Of all proportion. . Tt has been found necessary to discard some of the pieces. Reports from Irkutsk declare that the now coalition government is commanding command-ing general support. Fierce guerilla warfa re. with reprisals on both sides is reported in I aghestan. The relations between General Peni-kine Peni-kine and the' Georgian republic are again strained, but it is believed that, the difficulty diffi-culty will be settled through the mediation media-tion of Great Britain. 1 -ondnu observers find di fficnity ih in-t in-t er pre ting the Polshevik new offensive against tho lsthonian front, although t here are indications that some further trouble is brewing. The Reds thus far have been -repulsed. They arc maintaining main-taining a heavy art then' fire, however. There is art inclination here toward the belief that the Bolsheviki are trying to frighten the Baltic slates into signing a peace agreement at the, .conference now in progress in Dorpat.