Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-04-04 | Page 3 | British Public Deeply Stirred by Russ Report

BRITISH PUBLIC DEEPLY STIRRED BY RLISS REPORT LONDON, April 3. (By The Associated Asso-ciated Press) The curtain was raised for the Bnthh public on the position of the allied armies in north Russia for the first time time this afternoon. The serious situation in the Murmansk region and the attempt by the Bolshevik! Bolshe-vik! to drive the allied troops on the I Archangel front into the sea are the cause of much anxiety. The London afternoon papers circulated posters through th- streets with startling phrases of which "The British army imperiled." was typical. The public bought the papers eager-Iv, eager-Iv, having no Idea which army was referred to Som" of the papers de-dared de-dared 'hat another Kut surrender or I Khartum tragedy threatened mi- Ernes I shakleion, the explorer, who has just returned from Russia where he superintended the winter outfitting and feeding of the expedition expedi-tion confirmed the danger to the Allied Al-lied position and armies. He is credited cred-ited with stirring British officials into a keener realisation of the seriousness of the position in Russia. BOLSHEVIKI RETIRING. LONDON, April 3 Dispatches from Omsk rrpurt that during the last few days the bolsheviki have been retiring on the Orenburg front so rapidly that the Siberian armies in pursuit are unable un-able to keep in touch. Bolshevik desertions de-sertions continue. As an example, fif- I ty miles south of Ufa a whole regiment of bolsheviki cavalry joined Kol- j chak's forces and turned their weapons on their former comrades. The bolsheviki had accumulated at ! Orenburg over three million hundred- I weight of grain which they had seized I in the Cossack villager. They are try- j ing under the greatest difficulties to transport this grain to Samara and are eacuating Orenburg.