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Show I CLOSING IN ON THE BOLSHEVIKI. At times it is difficult to trace the ebb and flow of Bolshevism in Russia and to determine whether the Bolsheviki arc making an advance ad-vance or losing ground. The New York Herald points out that on the west side of Russia the Lenine forces are losing. The Herald says : "The territory regained fully counterbalances the losses in the east of Admiral Kolchak. who, by the Way, is now strongly coming back, having driven the Bolsheviki westward more than one hundred and fifty miles, from Petropavlovsk almost to Kurgan. Owing to the near approach of the Siberian winter the opposing forces there are likely to be immobilized soon along the line of the Tobol river, near the boundary boun-dary between Europe and Asia. But there are yet six more weeks of "fighting weather" in the west, which will give time to close the gap between Kieff and the Pripet, where there are still some Bolsheviki Bolshe-viki facing the Ukrainian General Petlura, and to complete the extension exten-sion of General Denikine's line along the Dnieper until a junction is effected with the Poles on the Beresina. The latter already have no efficient defense from Bobruisk, past Borisof, on the Moscow railway, to Disna, on the Dvina river. Further north the Lithuanians and Estonians Es-tonians continue the front to the Gulf of Finland. Thus a barrier against Bolshevism stretches across Russia from Finland to the Caspian. Cas-pian. But it is a thin line, weak in places, and needs both material and moral support. It would be disastrous not only for Europe but for the world should this be withheld." |