Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1920 — UKRAINIANS IN FLIGHT [ARTICLE]

UKRAINIANS IN FLIGHT

Give Up Kiev as Bolshevik Armies Approach. Red Cavalry Sweeps Through Defense Line-Three of''Gen. Petlura’s Divisions Surrounded. Warsaw, Not. 18.—The Ukrainians have evacuated Kiev and other towns they had occupied and are fleeing defeated before the new Russian Soviet offensive. The Bolshevik cavalry has swept through the Ukrainian lines at various points. Three of Gen. Petlpra’s divisions were surrounded by soviet.troops when the Ukrainian left wing broke because of bad communications. Constantinople, Nov. 18. —Reports that Batum has been captured by the Russian Bolshevik! have been received here, but* thus far they have not been confirmed. Supplies collected in the city were removed some time ago, and a 'Georgian division was sent to the south for the purpose of checklhg an advance by Turkish nationalists. The confusion existing in the Caucasus region cannot he described, and trains running between Tiflis and Batum are badly overcrowded. Great Bolshevik demonstrations were held in Batum and Tiflis on the anniversary of the soviet revolution in Russia, which was solemnly celebrated throughout th? Caucasus district. News from Armenia is badly confused. It would appear that neither the Bolshevik element nor the active Armenian government is in control of the situation. Arms were issued to workers at Sebastopol for the purpose of preserving order and protecting stores, says an ’allied officer who remained to the last in’that city. The Workers’ union undertook to protect the wounded who had not been removed, and a nursing staff 'gallantly volunteered to remain behind. Immediately after Gen. Wrangel’s forces left, local Bolshevikl established themselves on the hospital train, and a Bolshevik delegation left Sebastopol tn meet the soviet army. Many abandoned buildings were looted by mobs, it Is said.