WAR ON BOLSHEVIKS.

WRANGEL’S SUCCESSES.

DONETZ OVERRUN.

The South Russian situation is developing with considerable rapidity. I explained only yesterday the imminence of a move by General Wrangel to the line Ekatarinoslav-rostoff, and I mentioned the favourable fact that an independent rising had already occurred in that direction. News has now been received that this rising, organised on the “kosh” principle, described in The Daily Telegraph on Aug. 18, has attained formidable proportions. General Makhno (this may be or may not be a person different from the famous guerilla leader) has sent in a report that his men have taken Losovaja, Slaviansk, and Kramaiorskaja, in the Donetz basin, and that his patrols have reached, on the other hand, Krementchoug, on the Dnieper. A glance at a map will suffice to show that Makhno’s successes prepare the way for a general advance by the forces of the South Russian Government. If it is true that the Red military organisation is in a state of fast progressing dissolution, then there is every reason to expect a rapid advance of anti-bolshevik forces. No better proof is needed of the Reds’ military collapse than the latest successes of the Ukrainian troops in Podolia, on the Galician border. After the retreat from Kieff in the summer of this year, the feeble contingents of the national Ukrainian Government were incorporated with the Polish army. Barely 10,000 strong, they were placed on the extreme right wing and concentrated behind the Dniester. We now hear that they have again penetrated into Podolia, and are menacing Shmerinka and Vinnitza. The loss of these two towns would mean that the Bolsheviks will have only left to them for communication with their Black Sea port the line from Bachmatoh through Teherkasy on the Dnieper. The strike of Ukrainian railwaymen may have been an important factor in bringing about the collapse of the Red military organisation.