Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1919 — BOLSHEVIK ARMY DEFEATED; 31,000 TAKEN PRISONERS [ARTICLE]

BOLSHEVIK ARMY DEFEATED; 31,000 TAKEN PRISONERS

V ladi vosto k, Monday, D e>c. 30. (By the Associated Press) —In capturing Perm in the Ural Mountains, Gen. Gaida, at the head of Czechoslovak and Siberian forces, virtually destroyed 1 the Bolshevik third army from which he took 31,000 prisoners. Gen. Gaida’s troops captured an armed train from which Nikolai Lenine, the Bolshevik premier, was directing operations in the region of Perm. Lenine himself escaped, but several members of has party were taken* prisoners. The exploit of Gen. Gaida in capturing Perm parallels his success in the campaign of last summer. His superiors opposed his iplan of attack against Perm- and he carried out the operation at the risk of removal from his command. The bulk of his forces was made up of Siberian troops, but he had two regiments of Czechs in his army, In addition to the 31,000 prisoners reported, Gen. Gaida captured 5,000 railway cars, 120 field guns, 1,000 machine guns, thirty automobiles, an entire wagon transport, several armored trains and sever® thousand horses. His maneuver was a complete surprise to the Bolsheviki, as proved by the fact that he captured several prominent Soviet leaders at the headquarters of the Third Bolshevik army. Ten Bolshevik regiments are declared to have been annihilated and the rest of the enemy army was driven acr*. ss the Kama River.