General Denikin's main forces in Southern Russia are defending themselves
between the Lower Don and the Caspian. Dr. Harold Williams, in a message dated January 12th, reported that the patriot army was still intaot, with its headquarters at Novo-Rossisk, on the Black Sea. It was •uncertain whether •the Cossacks, to whose country General Denikin has retired, would continue to resist the Bolsheviks or seek to make terms. As the Cossacks are all peasant proprietors, the Communist doctrines cannot, one would think, appeal to them. Up to Monday the Cossacks were standing firm. General Denikin's forces are still holding Odessa and the approaches to the Crimea. Further north, the Poles have beaten off a heavy Bolshevik attack near Dvinsk. In Siberia the collapse of Admiral Koltchak's Govern- ment has led to utter anarchy. Three or four partisan leaders are claiming authority in Eastern Siberia. The American troops are being withdrawn, with the hard-fighting Czecho-Slovaks, and the Allied Missions are on their way to the °oast.
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