BRITISH AND RUSSIAN TROOPS
IN NORTH RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN
Intended to Give Support to Kolchak’s Anti-Bol
shevik Operations, Allies Meet with Unex
pected and Well-Organized Opposition
ARCHANGEL, July 2 (Correspon
dence of Associated Press).—The
British-Russian offensive in North
Russia, which was intended this sum
mer to connect with Admiral Kol
chak’s Siberian army and establish
Archangel as a base through which
allied supplies might be handled to
all anti-Bolshevik armies in the field,
has met with unexpectedly strong re
sistance on the Dvina at the same
time that Admiral Kolchak’s armies
have been driven backward into Si
beria.
Because of insufficient forces, lack
of open support by the allied govern
ments and the fact that natural fac
tors have aided the Bolsheviki, the
expedition, according to military
opinion in Archangel at this time,
may be doomed this summer to a
failure equally as bad jas that which
met last summer’s efforts unless large
forces are thrown in at once by the
allied governments and a war against
the Bolsheviki undertaken in earnest.
Throughout the long winter, when
the allies and Russians on the Arch
angel front were fighting a hard
pressed. defensive battle against su
perior forces, the allied command was
awaiting the arrival of summer to
take the offensive.
Fearing that political conditions in
England would be greatly disturbed
if it were to become known that the
two brigades of British volunteer
troops, sent ostensibly to effect the
relief of allied forces already im
periled and outnumbered, were in
reality to be used as a reserve for
this summer’s offensive, the censor
did not permit the local announce
ment to that effect to be cabled
abroad.
This announcement, made to the
Archangel press on June 6, by Major
General Ironsides, commander-in-chief
of the North Rusian forces, was to
the effect that Archangel was to be
made a base for the Siberian army,
through an immediate offensive for
Kotlass, on the river Dvina. Kot
lass is the rail head for the line
running to Viatka, on the Trans
Siberian railway, a distance of ap
proximately 250 miles from the posi
tion at that time of Kolchak’s ad
vanced posts, since then driven back
many miles eastward. In this cam
paign, said General Ironsides, the
British troops were to act as a re
serve while the Rusians went ahead.
The offensive began late in June,
but so far has advanced only a few
miles. Kotlass is still more than a
hundred miles from the Russian and
British positions on the Dvina river,
which are, in fact, only at about the
same point where the Americans
were established last autumn before
the strong Bolshevik offensive caused
them to withdraw during the winter.
Although compared with last sum
mer's pitifully small force the present
British and Russian command is well
equipped, it is still far below the
strength of the Bolsheviki in both
numbers and artillery. The British
gunboats and monitors, of which a
large flotilla was sent for operations
on the Dvina and Vaga rivers, have
for the most part proved useless be
cause of the low water.
Even the British volunteer forces
have been informed that they will be
withdrawn from North Russia before
another winter sets in. All Ameri
cans and French are now off the
Archangel front, and the newly
trained Russian troops, most of whom
were secured by draft, are limited in
number, the territory being sparsely
settled. They are, however, well
equipped.
At the present time the North Rus
sian government, which has estab
lished, under direction of General
Kolchak, a “strong” policy to hold
up the discipline in the army and
among the civilian population, is de
termined to carry on the war against
the Bolsheviki to the finish and the
people appear anxious to co-operate.
Late in July Major General Iron
sides announced to the British govern
ment that the Russian troops in the
Onega district, about 100 miles west
of the Dvina river, had mutinied and
handed over the Onega front and the
town of Onega, to the Bolsheviki.
No British troops were on the Onega
front.
NEWS NOTES’FROM
TOWN OF M’CARTHY
(From McCarthy News.)
En route for the White river, Don
jack and Generic, the Mitton brothers
of Boston, Mass., left on an extensive
hunting trip this morning. The out
fit is in charge of Captain Hubrick,
who is guide. They are rigged up for
a big hunt, will be out for about
seven weeks and will return home by
way of Whitehorse. Andy Taylor
and Jimmy Brown are the packers
in charge of the 16 head of pack
and saddle horses. Con Miller is in
charge of the cooking department.
Mrs. Garrity Dies.
We have received a letter from
Tom Garrity this week, from Van
couver, containing the sad news that
Mrs. Garity died and was buried at
that place on the 15th of July.
Mrs. Garrity spent last winter in
McCarthy, where she made many
friends, who learn the sad news with
deep regret and extend their sym
pathy to her husband. Mr. Garrity
was in the employ of the Copper
River railway until a few weeks ago.
He is now on his way hack to Ireland.
The “Russian Kid.”
A. W. Balsimer, better known as
the “Russian Kid,” and Pat McBride
just arrived from a trip across the
Salmon river glacier with sampl/es
from four rich silver quartz veins.
These hoys intend going across into
the Ketchikan watershed on their
next trip. They are old-time Alaska
prospectors. The “Kid” has been
prospecting in Alaska for sixteen
years and he knows a good specimen
when he finds it.—Hyder news item
in Ketchikan Chronicle.
Miss Ina Maule Cole left on yester
day’s train to catch the Alaska to
return to Vancouver, B. C., after
spending three weeks holiday here.
Carl Whitham has been very busy
since his arrival receiving the con
gratulations of friends, whom he sur
prised by bringing a wife with him
on his return. Mrs. Whitham is a
sister of Percy Thornton, who is an
operator in Chisana.
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America’s military contribution
toward maintenance of the League of
Nations will be approximately 500,000
men, in the opinion of Gen. Peyton C.
March, chief cf staff of the army. He
expressed this view in testifying be
fore the senate military affairs com
mittee.
“If all of the other nations unite
and do their share, I should say the
United States could fulfill its obliga
tions with 500,000 men,” General
March said.
The committee learned from Gen
eral March that none of the European
nations is restoring its armies to the
antebellum basis, despite the organiza
tion of the League of Nations to main
tain peace. Great Britain, for instance,
has fixed the strength of its army at
952,000 men, to be raised by conscrip
tion. This is nearly four times the
Size of the British army before the war.
General March said President Wil
>suu IMU not communicated any information on the size of the force the United
dtates would be expected to maintain in Europe after the signing of the peace
treaty. The war department was guessing at approximately five divisions, or
225,000 men.
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