Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1920 — REDS CAPTURE 3 MORE TOWNS [ARTICLE]

REDS CAPTURE 3 MORE TOWNS

Now Fighting Fiercely for Possession of Tcherkassy, Qn the Dnipper. WHAT THEY EXPECT TO DO Declare That 1'920 Will See Victorious End of Civil War With Soviets at Berlin, Washinoton, Paris and London. London, Jan. 2.—The capture of Yekaterinoslav, on the southern Russian front, and Novomoskovsk, 15 miles northeast of Yekaterinoslav, is announced in a bolshevik official statement. The reds also are fighting fiercely for possession of Tcherkassy, on the Dneiper 95 miles southeast of Kieff. They have occupied Marlinsk, east of Tomsk on the Siberian front, the statement adds. A soviet wireless message from Moscow flashed New Year’s greetings to the world. The message “In 1920 we shall attain a victorious end of civil war. Siberia, the Ukraine, the Don region, and the Caucasus desire soviets. There also will be soviets at Berlin, Washington, Paris and London. Soviet authority will be supreme throughout the world.” Martial Law at Irkutsk. Irkutsk, Jan. 2.-r-Irkutsk is in a state of siege. Martial law was declared following an uprising of social revolutionary troops December 24, during . which they captu/ed the railway station but were' unable to take the city from the Kolchak forces. Order Is being preserved by the Czechoslovak troops. The Americans in Irkutsk are safe and will be evacuated to Verkne-L'dinsk, 160 miles east of Irkutsk. Admiral Kolchak is said to be at Achinsk, 20 miles east of Tomsk. London, Jan. 2.—While the British foreign office denies official knowledge of the alleged negotiations for Japanese intervention In Siberia as a consequence of Kolchak’s failure, there Is no doubt that Britain and France are anxious that either Japan or America undertake the burden they are unable or unwilling to assume. Great Britain especially Is alarmed at the prospect of shrewd bolshevlst influence towards the Caucasus and India, but it is realized that home public opinion will not allow a new antibolshevlk campaign. Great Britain is willing therefore to allow Japan to undertake the task of savng the world from bolshevism, repaying herself by Siberian conquests. Lord Northcliffe’s Dally Mall says: “The failure of Kolchak leaves no alternative to Japanese intervention, if civilization Is to be saved and China protected from bolshevlst Interference and Its incalculable perils.” I The attitude of the British foreign office officially Is: “.We don’t care to interfere,ln a matter which is in the province' of America and Japan."