Show J SIBERIA FACES r HARD WINTER J Famine and Death Expected to Take Th Their Toll of the Miserable Miserable Mis Mis- er erable ble Population SOVIET ANTI FORCES FORCES' LOSE 6 Half Do Dozen en Go Governments Set Governments Set Up Ui Up In In Inas Inas as Many Areas Areas Japanese Re Remain Remain lri In In n Country Near Near Vladivostok T Tokyo Tokyo All All the news news ne that filters flown down fr from n through Siberia the varl- varl qu ous lus s. s propaganda b bureaus r aus and from independent In- In depe dependent dent correspondents correspondent sa In Ica Indicates es esth th that hat f things in th that f section of at the thew w world are ure rapidly going ff from om bad to worse with the prospect that this winter will find woe and misery misers as widespread as during last winter wIth death and nd famine taking toll toil of ot the the Jie miserable population now crowded crowd- crowd id ed Into the various various' centers along what Is left of ol rail rall- road rondo Th The drift everywhere from j the Pacific to Lake I-ake Baikal Balk I Is plainly inthe In la lahe the he direction of with 1 a i large part of the country openly f l owIng lowing the Instructions received from Moscow The Bolshevik anti forces Ire re being exterminated forced across the Mongolian and ManchurIan bor- bor Sers aers or herded Into corners comers where they must fight like tc cornered rats The Japanese still have about ten en In Siberia Including occupying ying northern len The great great- of these are In and ana around Vladivostok having withdrawn from fromin ill in Interior points The rhe last ant place evacuated was was Into wI Partisans Partisans Partisans' s i marched on onU U the Hie e heels of the thc Japanese what was J left tt of the ls e. e before t lom m. m n Roughly ug lly l speaking these there r are t today day six elx BI sep separate rate governments f functioning b between tween the Pacific and Lake Baikal BaUml west of which Moscow has a slinky shaky hold No Organized Government The Vladivostok government government-at at th time of writing a semi organization from which the Social Democrats and have Cadets Cadets Cadets' have recently separated separated Is Is headed by President This controls controls that c comparatively thickly populated s of the Maritime province between between be be- tween the the Pacific rind find the Manchu Manchu- clan border from VI Vladivostok y stOk north to toa a point a short r distance e south of sk The rest of the Maritime province and ana the eastern section of the Amur A province about miles wide Is if controlled by the Partisans without any organized government and with ID no particular ascertainable alms aims ex rs except that of plunder murder and rapine The de dc facto head of ot the time Partisans just now Is If sheer heer anarchy can be said to haVe hase h e a head bead The gover government ent controls the rest of the Amur roughly rough rough- ly y to marking the the eastern tern and western limits of the tilt territory territory ter- ter controlled This government governments Is s openly soviet acknowledging Mos Mos- Moscow cow cow- as supreme and accepting the orders of Lenine and The president of of this section Is ss r. r Best Army in Siberia West Ves of this Is the so-ca so called so-called ed Ner Ner f chinsk sk government go In reality a a. a branch of the lle ad ad- ado ministration From recently recently recently re re- marched the best drilled di and best est Eq equipped army Y In Siberia Ib n a f for for- of bf fighters into shape by regular staff starr officers sent from Moscow some Moscow some four months ago Le Eed tanks and l- l bair air air- by escorted by y airplanes planes this force descended upon Chita about two weeks ago driving Ataman from frow his erstwhile erstwhile- capital and herding him hIm and ond the remnants remnants rem rem- nants of of or Kappelis army army- back alon the Chinese Eastern railway Eastern railway to the Manchurian line t m Is Is' Is what Is left of the force raised by by General Kappell 1 from among the hardy artisans mechanics mechanics mechanics me me- and factory workers of the Ural when the B first began their campaign of atrocities These mcm men fought alongside alongside- the Czechs Czechs' against the Reds neds until their gallant leader met death by freezing Since then they have they have stayed stared together under one general rafter after r another their latest commander being being- killed in In the tile retreat from Chita This force Is bitt bitterly a Bolshevik antl I and Is associating with the troops of Ataman only through want of better company A great grent suspicion Is entertained of or somewhat alla allayed ed at the tI time e when the Ataman telegraphed his acknowledgment of ol time the supremacy of General West of the territory comes comes- comes comes- the Verl ment controlling the district t between the mountains and Lake I Balk Baikal l. l To all Intents and purposes this Is n a branch h of or Moscow but less leas openly so than thap the crowd and is Is claiming a n paramount place In the formation of Ot tl the e Far Eastern republic the tiro buffer bulter state which Japan desires to see created but which appears appeals to to be he as fis far far- of off as ever The Thc president Is ob alias anas Headed Beaded for Mong Mongolia lIa It is from this section that Baron Un an an Independent leader Is heading an Invasion of Mongolia his his' for force e now being somewhere near Urge and clashing with a Chinese army dispatched with a n rush to defend the Mongolian capital had led his men against the name Of pf the capital city as os well as of t the e republic In the thc hope of r capturing cap cap- turing It and of establishing a n new center of Bolshevism anti but was was' defeated an and driven south It Is s not positively known as et his drive e a against n Is a real attempt to capture It for the e purpose of es ab- ab lishing an Independent Mongolia In to operation co with Sem ii or i whether he merely feels that he must have haye some place In which to winter and obtain supplies Semen of has hris a n force estimated at men while the Kappell Koppell army now with him was before the Chita defeat West of Lake of Lake Is soviet territory ter ter- ter- ter with Moscow's control undisputed undisputed by any regular organization A number of revolutions counter have been r reported ported from that section however AI All the news is fragmentary tary and unconfirmed but It Is believed be be- that the region Is fairly fairly fairly fair fair- ly q quiet while farther west and south peasant revolts are reported from fr mK Imd aud Novo- Novo sk and others from and Dusk BUsk Japanese Military Missions The Japanese have Japanese have military mIssIons missions missions mis mIs- still at under Colonel Isome at nt Chita and while General 01 Ol Is In general general gen gen- eral command of the Japanese In Siberia with headquarters at The activities of the government In III seizing Chita Chitu may furnish an excuse excuse for further urther Japanese Japan Japan- es ese activities In Interior Siberia the terms of the recent armistice between the Russian factions and the Japanese Japan Japan- ese that being there should be no soviet soviet soviet so so- viet activities JUes east of Lake Baikal Public opinion In Japan how however ver Is decidedly against any further Siberian Siberian Sibe Sibe- rian adventure Reports come from China that there Is a belief bellef In Peking and In Mongolia Itself that the Japanese nr are arc e behind the theUn theUn theUn Un eru ern Invasion of that province but there Is nothing In the attitude of ot the authorities authorIties authorIties' here nor Jn Jim 1 press comments on the attack upon to substantiate an any such belief |