15 NOVEMBER 1919, Page 1
The Russian patriot armies have had a bad week. On
the Baltic front General Yudenitch has been premed back towards Narva, and is resisting large Bolshevik forces on the line from which he began his offensive last month. In Siberia Admiral Koltchak is still retreating eastward, and it looks as if Omsk itself may have to be evacuated. In Southern Russia General Denikin is hotly engaged on a wide front from the Polish border to the Caucasus. He has lost ground in the centre, but he seems to be holding his own in the Don and Volga regions and in the Ukraine. The Bolsheviks are evidently well supplied with munitions, doubtless from the stocks imported into Russia by the Allies up to the spring of 1917, as well as from Germany, whereas the patriots depend on what we can send them now.
