The Bolshevik armies seem to have sustained no check fn
their advance towards the Black Sea. General Denikin's forces, abandoning much of the costly war material which we sent them, appear to be concentrating on Odessa in the west and in the Lower Don Valley in the east. In Eastern Siberia Admiral Koltchs,k has given place to General Semenoff, the Cossack leader. At Irkutsk there has been fighting between the Social Revolutionaries and the Bolshevik partisans. The Allies apparently do not know what to do for the Siberians, who are hopelessly at variance among themselves. If the Allies, and especially Japan, hold aloof, the Bolshevik armies will probably reach Vladivostok as fast as trains can carry them there, although there is every reason for thinking that the Siberians do not really want to be robbed and slaughtered by the Bolsheviks. The effect of the Bolshevik propaganda outside Ruesia in the Far East is not a matter that Great Britain and Japan can afford to ignore.
