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Show BOLSHEVIK! WIN TEN-DAY BATTLE PETROGRAD, Tuesday, Jan. 18. The Bolshevlkl forces have seized Irkutsk, eastern Siberia, after a ten days' battle. All the Cossacks and military cadets were disarmed and the authority of tho workmen's and soldiers' sol-diers' government proclaimed. Orenburg, capital of the Siberian province of that name, also has been occupied by the Bolshevlkl. The edict of the Siberian republic of Omsk, prohibiting the export of food to Russia until the constituent assembly as-sembly Is called to order, became effective ef-fective December 28. nn I |