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Show ADMIRAL KOLCHAK ESCAPES REDS, REPORT I ftSrJNF !, O aA .A. -ft. .A A A A B1 I CAPTURED LEADER OF . I ALL-RUSSIANS SAID If 10 6E 111 111 II Difficulties of Supply Bring I ; Red Advance to Halt on I . Siberian Railroad ! BOLSHEVIKI CHECKED AT CASPIAN FRONT Lenine Reported to Invite a K Friendly Settlement of Soviet-Poland Soviet-Poland Controversy ! ! HONOLULU, T. H., Jan. 30. i Admiral Kolchak is reported j to have escaped from the Bol-sheviki Bol-sheviki and. to be in hiding" in Manchuria, according" to a To- i kio dispatch to the Japanese "f newspaper Nippu Jiji here. The social revolution which f"P occurred in Irkutsk and when ousted Kolchak, transferred the governmental powers to the Eolsheviki, the cable added. LONDON, Thursday, Jan. 29. Dif-! ficulties of supply have virtually stop-. stop-. ped the advance of Bolshevik troops f along the trans-Siberian railway west of Irkutsk, according to advices to the war office. All resistance seems to have disappeared. Detachments are I reported to have reached the Chinese) frontier southeast of Blissk. I Later the reports show that relations rela-tions between the new government and the Czecho-Slovaks have become :I worse and that Bolshevism is gaining' i ground as a result of the arrival of! , red agents working in front of the j 1 Bolshevik army. Encounters between '; Semenoff's troops and Czecho detach-; detach-; raonts are reported and it is stated ', Admiral Kolchak and his staff have " been in prison at Irkutsk. j 1:1 Against uenKine. Ik In south Russia the Bolsheviki have resumed their advance against General, Gener-al, al Dcnikine. On the western half of I the front the main effort of the soviet jl troops appear to be directed south- ward against Crimes, and southwest-jj southwest-jj ward against the Khorson-Nikolaieff-I I Odessa area. In the former sector they L ; have reached the northern end of the isthmus and captured Genichesk and j Pcrekop, but further progress across ; the narrow and easily defended neck ; of land has been stayed momentarily. I . In the latter area the reds advanced I down the railroad toward Nikolaieff J ! after occupying Elizabethgrad, but still are about fifty miles from Nlko- , ' laieff. Checked At Caspian. : On the eastern half of the front the ', threatening red advance along the ( western shores of the Caspian sea has been checked nnd thrown back. In the ? center General Denlkine's units have fallen back, but in the, Don region (ho anti-Bolsheviki are maintaining! their positions. All reports concur in ? saying the Russian retreat is being J i carried out in an orderly manner and f that the pursuing soviet cavalry is gaining ground only step by step and 5 is losing severely. The fighting spir-k spir-k it of General jenikine's men has revived, re-vived, it is said. t Yudenitch Released. In western Russia the Lettish ad-j! ad-j! 1 vauce along a twenty mile front has i attained a maximum penetration of ; about 65 miles. Difficulties between 5 Poland and Lithuania continue and 5 i threaten to become acute owing to the I acts of aggression by partisnn dctach- ments. Allied representatives are trying try-ing to meditate there. ; General Nicholas Yudenitch, commander com-mander of the Russian northwest ! ' army in the offensive last fall ; against Petrograd, was reported in ad-M ad-M vices from Reval to have been re- Ileaesd. Private advices say General Yudenitch Yuden-itch was released as a result of pressure pres-sure exerted by French and British authorities at Reval. JANIN REPORT SERIOUS. PARIS, Jan. 30. Considerable cau- fl Lion Is shown by newspapers here in if commenting on reports that General I jL Janin, the French commander of the j Czecho-Slovak army in Siberia, turned ( . Admiral Kolchak over to the insur- '1 gent revolutionists when demand for j him was made. The Journal expresses ') regret that " a charge of felony has i been brought against the general" .vnd , , expresses belief he could give the ex- 1 1 planations demanded by Premier Mil- lerand. i Tho Petit Parisian declares General i : Janin was powerless to help Kolchak j while tho Figaro says the Czccho-Slo- vaks had to give up the former head of the all-Russian government or be : ' annihilated. i , i LONDON, Jan. 29. A Bolshevist : proclamation which is being spread I i among tho red soldiers In north Rus- r sia ostensibly to halt the unnecessary killing of prisoners, especially Cos- ii r sacks, has been received by the Brit- i8h war offico after having come into 3 H the hands of the north Russian gov-1 gov-1 E eminent. Z ( The proclamation divides the SB "viites" into two categories the first In GHignatod as the real enemies of the soviet republic such, as capitalists, fg their sons and officers; tho second IS those who fight against the Soviets Sim on'y because they are either forced to jRr do so or arc ignorant. Red soldiers M t ft Tr -w y y "V V v y V 9 S5 9 4 & gs 1 9 fige n& gt $ are Warned not to kill those in the second sec-ond category becauso "then white soldiers sol-diers would be afraid to desert to us." A wireless dispatch received from Moscow says that a declaration signed by Premier Lenine, fojmer Minister Tchitcheria and Minister of War Trotzky, addressed to the Polish government gov-ernment on behalf of the council of the people's commissaries inviies a friendly settlement of all disputes and questions outstanding between Poland and sovJet Russia. |
