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Show ill! FORCES MARKS BEGINNING OF OPERATIONS OPERA-TIONS IN RUSSIA IN OPPOSITION OPPOSI-TION TO BOLSHEVIKI. With Allied Troops Rapidly Moving South from Archangel, the Czechoslovaks Czecho-slovaks Have Taken New Heart in Fight for Freedom. Washington. The landing of American Ameri-can troops at Vladivostok, announced Thursday by Secretary Baker, marks the actual beginning of operations from the Siberian coast to the relief of the Czecho-Slovaks. British and French contingents have been at Vladivostok Vlad-ivostok for several days and there is reason to believe that the Japanese have also landed. The march of events in Russia from news received Thursday seems to be rapidly assuming the proportion of a route of the Bolsheviki and of a nature to bring dismay to Germany. With allied troops rapidly moving south from Archangel, forces of British, Brit-ish, French, Japanese and American troops at Vladivostok and operating to the westward, and a British force at Baku, the Czecho-Slovaks have taken new heart in their heroic fight against the Germans and Austrians. Latest dispatches recorded the advance ad-vance of the allied troops from Archangel Arch-angel to Pabereshakaia, 100 miles south, on the road to Vologda. The Bolsheviki are retreating and were reported re-ported committing every known atrocity atroc-ity upon the civilian population, which openly has espoused the cause of the allies. The Bolsheviki throughout Russia are reported not only fleeing the advancing ad-vancing allies, but the newly aroused Russians, who have learned that the allies are not beaten on the western front, as the Germans and Bolsheviki have been persistently preaching, are the great mass of the people, the men organizing. As the real news reaches . are reported taking up the arms that they carried home with them when tEey were disbanded after the debacle of Brest-Litocsk. |