Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1919 — BOLSHEVIC ARMY IS WIPED OUT BY CZECHO-SLOVAKS [ARTICLE]

BOLSHEVIC ARMY IS WIPED OUT BY CZECHO-SLOVAKS

Forces Under General fialda Capture 31,000 Prisoners ano Many Guns. NARROW ESCAPE FOR LENINE Premier Flees From Armored Train, But Members of Party Are Captured—Ten Regiments Annihilated. Washington, Jan. 3. —Doctor Drinkovlc, commissioned of national defense of lhe JugO-Sluv national council, the government seated at Zagreb, has itsued orders for the moblllzutlou of all citizens of (he cluses of 189599, which Includes men- from nineteen to twenty-three years of uge.„ lu addition, all members of (lie academic classes are culled up. The order was received here and Indicates that th* new Jugo-Slav army will be formed of the 250,00 U men now under arms and atg>ut 350,0 W culled to the service by the new order. Officials her* frankly confessed that the order la a warlike one and could offer no explanation. The state department la without Information. Stockholm, Jan. 3.-—A Brltfch naval wfuadron in a sea tight in the Baltic sea has captured Nikolai Lenine’* minister of the navy, Easkolninov.

Vladivostok, Jan. B.—ln capturing Perm, in the Uraf mountains, General Galda, at the head of Czecho-Slovak and Siberian forces, virtually destroyed the bolshevik third army, from which Nikolai Lenine, the bolshevik premier, was directing operations in the region of Perm. Lenine himself escaped, but several members of hl* party were taken prisoners. The exploit of General Galda in capturing Perm parallels his success in the campaign of last summer. His superiors opposed his plan of attack against Perm, and he carried out theoperation at the risk hf removal from bls command. The bulk of his force was made up of Siberian troops, but he had two regiments of Czechs in hla army. Captures Enormous Booty. In addition to the 31,000 prisoners reported, General Galda -captured 5,000 railway cars, 120 field guns, 1,000 machine guns, 30 automobiles, an entire wagon transport? several dfrmored trains and several thousand VMtees. His movement was a complete surprise to the bolshevik!, 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 across the Karma river. Semenoffa Troops Advance. Troops of General Semenoff, the an-ti-bolshevik leader In the Chita district, have occupied Verkhnl Udlnsk, on the Siberian railway east of Lake Baikal. -Two hundred thousand Russian soldiers released from .German prisons are expected to pass through Omsk within a fortnight. The Russians are destitute and In a serious condition from exposure and lack of food.