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Show i Bolshevik Armies Expected to Fall 1 Forced Back by Onslaughts of Enemies on Four Sides, Bolsheviki Armies Now Between Upper and Nether Millstones Part of the Ukraines I Join Denikine With Promise of Galicia and I Chelm Being Restored Lettish Forces Fig$ I Way Across the Duna. i LONDON, Oct. 16. A general retreat by the bolsheviki before t the armies of Admiral Kolchak in western Siberia is announced in a I .vireless message from the Kolchak. goernment at Omsk dated Oc-lobei Oc-lobei 13. ; LONDON. Oct. 16. Forced bark by m the onslaughts of enemies on four I fronts, the armies of the soxiet gov-1 gov-1 1' erniuent of Russia appear to be fac ins a period pregnant with disaster. I ' General Denikim s Cossacks trom the if south, Polish forces from the west; i northwestern Russian legions on the northwest and northern Russian I troops from the north have during the last lev. days lorged ahead un'.il U L-oeais the itolehvlk-Hm-te- r he- ' Ureen the upper and nether mill--I stones. ' Petrograd is doomed to capture, in I the opinion of observers, General Yu-I Yu-I denich being at Gatchina, only 25 I miles south of the former Russian I capital. In the extreme north the r nortlu-rn RusFian army has broken lie f resistance of the Bolsheviki. according f to reports and are pursuing the enomj toward Onega, a village aobut I 11 I miles west of Archangel. Further to the south it has forced its way f ir c down along the Dvina river. Polish t forces have captured Kovno on the t extreme northern end of their Line . beniklne's m n have driven a giant I- wadge into central Russia as far as I Orel and are thought to be on their I way toward Tula, an important rail-I rail-I way center that is considered the key I' to Moscow. Reports have been re I ceived, however, that pan of the e Ukrainian army have joined Denikine, having been assured that he will re-I' re-I' Btore eastern Galicla and the province I of Chelm from Toland. Advices from Russia that Colonel I Avaloff-Bermondt, whose sudden at-I at-I tack on Riga last week caused a sen- featlon, has declared h begun t ho i Campaign only for the purpose of se- I purine iho finna river front aeainst Moscow. The front is between the sectors a held by General Yudeniteh and the I Polish army. So far as Is known figi;' Ping is still in progress in Riga, but i the exact situation there is not known. Germ a no- Russian troops under com- mand of Colonel Avaloff-LVrmomli. I however, seem to have gained ground T north of Riga, haing captured the bwn of Dunamunde, according to re- i port. This morning's newspapers con&plc-l Bously feature reports of successes by ) Generals Yudeniteh and Denncme and the presumed impending collapse of the soviet government of Russia. Ed - I i itorial comment, while recalling Cre-r Cre-r quent past predictions of the fall of! Bolshevism which did not materialize,! think the present push ion i- mure Bbenating for the soviet government) Khan It has been at any previous time. Confidence In financial cirri' I the coming defeat of Bolshevism , Bhown by the strength of seem ho on the stock exchange yesterday, many advancing fharply with an n - I tive demand. Letts Cros8 the Duna. COPENHAGEN. ct. 16 Lettish forces have fought their wa) B the Duna river at Riga and opi rations R there are now developing favorably, I according to a dispatch from Lib.'iU I last night by the Lettish Press bureau A state of 6iege has been declared Ihroughout all Lithuania aud the mobilization mob-ilization of threo classes of soldiers has been ordered, it is annoum d In a telegram received here from Kovno. Russian troops under command of Colonel Vierkolltch have been conccn- trated In Lithuania and with the con- verted schools into barracks The Lithuanian flat' In -vi n .vln re replaccd the Russian colors. ( ' . . I . . i 1 Vierkolltch has issued a proclamation j- saying if the Lithuanians, voluntarily re-unlte with old Russia self-govern- inent will be given Lithuania under W Russian sovereignty. The pror; lion sa-s that on the olhr hand if the Lithuanians resist the Russians. they ( will be "regarded as traitors." LONDON, Wednesday, Oct. ' n official communication from Archan-I gel on the northern Russian frons claims that the Russians are pursuing,1 , the Bolsheviki in the direction of Onega. One-ga. It says they have occupied the enemy's fortified positions along the railroad, captured guns and prisoners. .. irovtfi -nrt RTmrtrrrr trrtirr and re-' .pulsed the enemy in the direction of : Kotohmas. The Russians. It is declared, continue con-tinue to advance. |