The military news from Russia is encouraging. General Denikin is
still advancing on a wide front from the Volga to the Polish frontier. Early this week he occupied Voronesh, on the Upper Don, some two hundred miles south of Moscow. His rapid advance has evidently compelled the Bolsheviks to weaken their eastern armies. Admiral Koltchak's Siberian forces, facing round after their long retreat, are retracing their
steps westward and have recovered Tobolsk. If the young Czech General who commands on this front were better sup- ported, he would make short work of the Bolsheviks. Political dissensions in Admiral Koltehak's camp, as well as his lack of munitions, were the main cause of his reverses last summer. The Bolsheviks have also sustained defeats in the north-west and north. They have revenged themselves by intensifying the Terror at Moscow and slaughtering a large number of their political opponents. These renewed massacres are a sign of desperation. The criminal gang who have usurped power at Moscow see that the game is almost played out.
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