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Show -- uu Esthonia Forced to Conduct Active War on Bolsheviki DORPAT. Thursday. Dee. 11 Officials Of-ficials of the northwestern Russian ,overnmrnt. according to C. C. Liano-row. Liano-row. madf the statement In rply to a communication from the Esthonian bremier to the effect that the presence of the northwestern government hud created difficulties in Esthonia. which '.'.is compelled thercb- to conduct an actiye war against ihe Bolshevik! whilp deyirinir to lake only dt-fen-iw .irl ion. n i I'll i 1 1 ii i ii i i in mini i iii The- announcement saya the cabinet "finds it necessary to announce the publication at th:s time of the reasons leading to the shipwreck cf all hopes of the northwestern Russian government govern-ment and the army on thi northwestern northwest-ern front would bo improper and not in the interest of the common Russian cause." The offoct of the decision upon th army recently commanded by General J Hi!, nitch is not clear, as that officer recently sovered connections with the government by resigning from the war minlstr. It is probable, therefore, hat it will be unnecessary for him to leave Bsthonia, as the Esthonians assert as-sert the Yudenitch army no longer exists. oo |