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Show Ss 1 ARE ON I III Solsheviki Continue At- H tacks on Army and fl Situation Serious 'B LONDON. Dee 12 An official statement state-ment issued by the war office today said the volunteers of General Dcni- j jkine's arm eight) miles east of Kiev 'have been driven out of Pleryatln in the 5o eminent of Poltava. The statement sa;s the Denikir. 5 forces have fallen back to a defensive line along the Poltava-Kiev railway but art defending themselves success- ! fully in positions encircling Kiev on a 1 1 went mile radius. LONDON, Dec 12 - The rapture 'of Kharkov, in southern Russia, 1 which has been one of the bases of ! General Di-nikine, is announced in a Moscow official dispatch received by -wireless today. jL LONDON. Thursday, Dec. 11. Bol- Bhevik attacks continue along the Estonian front south of the Gulf of I Finland and east ot Narva, acc ording to an official Es'honian statement Is- Bued Wednesday night Bitter fight- Em! Ing ba i" ii going on along the Koros- tell Feodorovha Tamburg -ector, but all attack- bie been repulsed by the 1 Esthonians, It is said. Bolshevik forces have again heavily I attacked the left flank of General : Deniwine's army ana driven the lai-'ter's lai-'ter's volunteers back fo a depth of thirty or forty miles along a front from three to four hundred miles long The reds arc within fifty miles ot I Kharkov and Poltava, and are swinging swing-ing around to the southeast of Kiev which is also threatened from the northeast, according to news from -outh Russia. The situation gives rise to anxiety. j On the Caucasus front, however, the 'Bolshevik! have been repulsed before Tsaritsan with heavy losses. Don Cossacks also have been successful in puahin'g back the reds. H An official statement issued at Bol-i Bol-i shevik headquarters in Moscow confirms con-firms reports that severe fighting has (taken place in the Narva region. It is claimed that many prisoners have been captured. . . . lH Men Ride to Battle in Sledges. On the eastern front the infantry of both Dehikine and the Bolsheirikl is supplied with sledges upon which the men ride into battle. Because of the ei ere weather little serious fighting is I going On here, the main activity being artillery duels between armored trains !The Siberians have an enormous ! amount of artillery, about one gun to each 100 men, which is out of all proportion It has been found necessary neces-sary to discard some the the piecefl! Reports from Irkutsk declare that jibe new coalition government is receiving re-ceiving enthusiastic public support. Fierce Guerilla Warfire. Fierce guerilla warfare with re-Iprlsals re-Iprlsals on both sides is reported In Daghestan, The relations between General Denlkine and the Georgian I are again strained, but it is believed I here that the difficulty will be settled lihrough the mediation of Great Brit- Ialn- l London observers find difficulty in Interpreting the Bolshevik new offensive of-fensive against the Esthonian front, although al-though there are indications that I something further is brewing. The j reds thus far have been repulsed. They are maintaining a heavy artil-lerv artil-lerv tire, however. There is an inclination in-clination here, however, that the Bo shevik i are trying to frighten t In Baltic states into signing a peace ! agreement at tho conference now in j , progress in Dorpat. '. ! |
