Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-04-04 | Page 2 | First Complete Account of the Russ Struggle

FIRS! COMPLETE ACCOUNT OF THE MISS STRUGGLE LONDON. March 12 t Correspond ence of the Associated Press.) Fresh troni Odessa, an Englishman whom the j correspondent met at the British foreign for-eign officr, has given to the Assoclat ad Preoi the first complete acount that has reached London of one of the most remarkable developments of the i struggle In Russia against bolshevipm It is the story of the volunteer army. organized by Oeneral Alexieff and now commanded by General Denoklne, which In a year has grown from a handful of homeless men, devoid of equipment nnd supplies. Into a military mili-tary force which has reconquered a I large portion of southern and south-.eastern south-.eastern Russia, suppressed the disruptive disrup-tive elements in the region occupied and set up n working civil government. "No one over here." said the travel ' er. "seems to realize that in the south J of Russia there is a small force of men which under the banner of the volun-1 leer army and in the cause of United sYee Russia, has made against overwhelming over-whelming numbers of the Red Terror'1 a most gallant stand." The volunteer army, he continued, has been recruited from several 1 ' iio irtini every part or Russia. I Fighting against great odds, it has paid !a big price. Twice it haa met defeat in campaigns on the river Kuban, and 'its losses included Its lenders, Alex jieff. Korniloff, and 30,oro volunteers ;and Cossacks. "The army." he aid. "had whole battalions formed of officers. The first .Korniloff regiment, now reduced to iless than 500 fighters, has bad passing through its rank more than 500 men. The -Regiment of Jieath' has lost 6o0 over a similar period. "To me, an observer, it has bfaJH a miracle how the volunteer army ever I got any recruits. There was no ro ercion. The recruits came voluntarily. , knowing that their lot was most likely to be a wooded cross or the life of a cripple. "Today the volunteer army has cleared the 'Great Belt' of Russia by ilts own efforts and the help of its neighbors, the Don Cossacks, and holds h- territory stretching from the Blsck J sea to the Caspian" oo