The Archive · 1926

The Bear Free Once More

Then the tide turned. The lenighty bear, freeing himself from tormentors on the West and South, tamed eastward again, The Allied troops hed all been withdrawn in the spring of 1920. The government. of Admiral Kolchak, which rad been dependent. upon foreign support, had been crushed and its leader " shot. Russian partisan bands drove the Japanese and their Cossack wappacters back across Tranebaikal and Amur provinces. By winter they had been driven out of all Russian territory except the neighbourhood of Vladivostok, the mouth of the Amur and Sal hahn. The Soviet government did not take over this region; the Far Basten Republic was organized and administered it temporarily.

Meantime reactionary forces under Baron Ungern von Stern-borg, a Coscack leader, hed succeed in driving the Chinese out of the Mongolian capital and establishing there a base of operations ry. A raid thet they directed in the cummer Sencar of sovity EenerHor OF cintse of 1921 along both banks of the Selenga River was repulsed by troops from Russia and the Far Eastern Republic. These troops pursued the fleeing resetionaries into Mongolia, capturing and dispersing them, and established themselves in Urga.

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