WASHINGTON—The retirement of the allied forces holding advanced positions in the Archangel sector in northern Russia, before the attacks by superior forces of the Bolsheviki, is reported in an official dispatch dated January 23rd, the substance of which dispatch was today made public by General March. The points attacked by the enemy lay generally about 190 miles from Archangel. General March says that the interallied commander had command of adequate troops with which to reinforce the advanced elements and handle the situation. The message reported the American losses in one action at Ust Pedenga, was ten men killed, seventeen wounded and eleven missing. A later dispatch states that subsequent attacks on the American positions were repulsed.
Bolshevik Victory Reported.
OMSK, Monday. — (By Associated Press.)—Ufa has fallen to the Bolsheviks in a defeat of the Russian, Czecho-Slovak forces, due to a failure of arms to arrive from Vladivostok. The troops which had been defending the city are reported to have fallen back to Zlatoust, 140 miles northeast, where they are making a courteous stand in the gorges of the Ural mountain country.
German Ships Allotted to U. S.
NEW YORK.—The German ships allotted to the United States for the transportation of troops from overseas have a tonnage of 460,000. These ships are included the giant Hamburg-American liner, Imperator, it has been authoritatively learned today. 