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Show i I Poles Report Hundreds Captured Cap-tured When Retreat of Enemy En-emy Was Cut Off REDS GAIN NEW AREA, POPULATION FLEES Bolshevik Uprising Led by Traitorous General Crushed by Armenians LONDON, May 2S. Tho Bolaliovlkl arc advancing In tho Kiev region, and are engaged In fighting on the scf--- m;tif!ed line of the T'o'fSSrtnrfist ofHi clly lt JjuinnSunccd" in Thursdays Thurs-days olTi&ir "statement by the soviet government received by wireless from Moscow today. The statement says the fighting line runs ten miles north of Brovarl village. vil-lage. This village lies about ten mllC3 directly cast of Kiov. Drive Ttcds Bnck, WARSAW, May 2S. "The Bolshevlki Bolshe-vlki in strength forced a passage of tt Bcreslna river., south of Bbrisov.j, enemy's retreat and taking hundreds! of prisoners," says an official communication com-munication issued today. j "Tho remainder of tho enemy, took refuge in tho forests behind the I Polinh front." tho communication j "South of the Dvin river the Bol-1 sheviki are throwing in reserves. There ! havo been renewed attacks in tho dl- rcction of the Slobokle-Budslaw rail-1 i road. Tho Poles holding the Kiev! -bridgehead have occupied Krasitowka . t I ' ami xrcouciiowu. Conquer New Territory. COPENHAGEN, May 27. All of northern Karell (northwest Russia) has been conquered by the Bolshevlki. .according to a Helslngfors dispatch to the National TIdende. The Karelian population has fled to tho forests, i The Karelain government, tho Hel- slngfors advices said, has decided to ft mobilize all men between 10 and 50 II i years of age and Is declared to bo Wr confident of Its ability tl drlvo back r- tho Bolshevlki. I Karelia, a region in northwest Rus- W .. sla, ombraccs tho southeast corner of Finland and parts o fthe modern governments gov-ernments of Pctrograd, Olonets and i Archangel. Tho Karelians belog to the 1 Finnish slock. (I Hostilities Close. ' LONDON, May 28. Hostilities be tween the Russians and Japanese In ' , Siberia ceased on May 25, according I to a Router despatch from Vladlvostak, i I dated Wednesday. Tho dispatch also reports the arrival of tho Russo-Jap- 1 aneso armistice commission at Kha barovsk. Russians Crush Revolt. J CONSTANTINOPLE, May 25. (By I The Associated Press.) Armenians have crushed the Bolshevik uprising against their government In Erlvan and a loyal Armenian army now 13 In control of Alcxandropol, according to it message received from tho Armenian Armen-ian capital by M. Pekzatlan, Armenian Armen-ian diplomatic representative at Tlf-lls. Tlf-lls. It Is reported the people of Alox-andnvpol Alox-andnvpol rejoiced at being freed from . the Bolshevlki who had dominated the railways. General Khachadorlan, an Armcn-fcv Armcn-fcv lan commander who recently revolted I and who was In charge of an armored train which made Bolshevik control of Alexandropol possible, was killed during the fighting before that city and his associates fled when the loyal troops captured tho train. oo |