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Show FIFTY THOUSAND BOLSHEVIK TROOPS ARE ANNIHILATED t General Denikine Breaks Through Red Lines and j ' Wipes Big Force Off the Map Yudenitch and W j Staff at Rev?i Lettish Armies Have Captured Mitau and Are Continuing Vigorous Advance. y STOCKHOLM. Nov. 22 General' Denikine, commander of Hie anti-Bol-M'.e.ik troops on the southern Russian front claims to have broken lhrwrh, the red line? between Orel and ram bov, southeast of Moscow and to have annihilated 50,000 Bblshevlk troops,, according to a Heislngfors dispatch to, ;he Svenska Dablad. Reports recently received from the -outhern Russian front have appeared to indicate that General Denikine was being driven southward b the Bol sheviki. General Denikine reached Orel about a month nqo but there en countered sueh. strong resistance that he was forced to resort ;o the defensive. defen-sive. Bolshevik official statements received re-ceived later told of r hreak in Ihej Denikine line to the southwest of Orel.) Tambov is about 400 miles southeast of Moscow. Yudenitch at Rcval. STOCKHOLM Nov 22. General Nicholas Vudenltch, anti-Bolsbevlg commander on the northwest Russian front has arrived at Rcval. capital of Esthonla. with his staff, according to a dispatch to the Svenska DagMaddt Dispatches from Reval under da'e of November lf reported the forces of General Yudenitch to be crowded into a small space of territory near Yam-burp, Yam-burp, slxty-eisht miles southwest of Petrograd and in a serious state of .li oreani.atlon The dispatch said lhat in answer to nn inquirv of General Gen-eral Vudenltch as to what Ksthonia r.oiihl do if he were obliged to cross he Esthoniax) frontier the Esthonian LUthorlties told him he could brin his hospitals and supplies, but lhat his '.o'diers must disarm Holsinsfors advices of thp same date reported that some of Yudenitch's roop-, already had entered the E&tho nian lines 1 Letts Capture Mitau. LONDON, Nov. 22 Lettish forced yesterday captured Mitau. capital of Oorland. p.eeordlns; to the Lettish le- ,) I 1 nation here The Letts continued their W I victorious advance. 1 " Mitau was tile headquarters of General Gen-eral von Eberhardt, who was sent by th5 German povernment to relieve Colonel Vvaloff-Berniondt of command of the German Baltic forces and super vise their orderly return to Germany-The Germany-The Letts were reported in a Copen ! en dispatch of November" 15 to be encircling the town. Ebiihardt Asks fcr Truce. COPENHAGEN. Nov. 22. General j i von Eberhardt, who has assumed com- j mand of the v' ' Russian army, ha.s h asked the Lettish commander-in-cbiel to accept a truce pending the conciu sion of an armistice, according to a ( i ::i-u dispatch Yon Eberhardt declares i the wost Russian army has placed it- ' I self under Gormen protection. n No reply has been sent by the Let- pl lisb commander who. however, points out that urn Eherharat's action staked the campaign against Riga a German I affair. ,,; : |