THE CAPTURE OF PERM:

This army had been compelled to retire some 60 versts the very day we were discussing an advance on Perm, and its present position was none too secure.

CHAPTER XII THE CAPTURE OF PERM:

The coup d'état had thrown the proposed Perm offensive completely into the background.

General Gaida, with his divisional generals, Galitzin, Pepelaieff, and Verzbitzky, pressed forward their preparations, and after a splendid series of movements captured Perm with 31,000 prisoners and an enormous booty of war material.

The preparations for the Perm offensive were well under way, when a dispatch came from General Dutoff, stating, "That in view of the pressure by our forces on their left the Bolshevik leaders had decided to, what they called, 'organise their enemies' rear.'

Their progress had been made more general and persistent since the end of November, 1918, the date on which the Czechs finally refused to take part in the great Perm offensive.

When they read in the English papers of January, 1919, how the Czech, Italian, French, and Allied forces had inflicted defeat upon the Bolsheviks at Perm, it caused a grim smile to pass over the faces of the Russian officers who did the job.

Everybody now knows how, in a temperature of over "60 below," these recently mobilised Siberian recruits re-established the fighting fame of the Russian soldier by sweeping the Terrorist forces from their positions and entirely destroying them at Perm.

The manager stuck to his post during the battle of Perm, and by a judicious distribution among the Bolshevik Commissars of the surplus roubles of the Tsar remaining in his possession got them out of the works without damage.

The whole party, under a Russian officer in English uniform, were attached to my train and taken to Perm, where instructions awaited them to proceed at once to Omsk.

While examining the damage done during the street fighting at Perm we encountered a mob of the Red Guard who had marched over their own lines at Glashoff and surrendered to General Gaida.

If I had been paid in £1 notes or sovereigns, I could have got something approaching 200 roubles for each at the Perm rate!

The Khama near Perm is over a mile wide, and this method of Nature to herald spring to these snow- and ice-bound regions lacks nothing so far as grandeur is concerned.

The fact that the English were at Perm spread back to Omsk, and four days later Japanese and French Missions put in an appearance.

The hospitality of our friends at Perm was truly Russian, and I was sorry when we had to leave.

M. Pastrokoff told me of the following incident of the early relief of Perm from the Terrorist.

" "He allowed no discussion," said M. Pastrokoff, "and if he had we should have been discussing it now, and the Terrorists would have re-occupied Perm.

1-8, R.C.L. perm.

By J. Perm, pseud. of Doris Mudie & Elizabeth Hill. Cartoons by Low.

RULING CASE LAW; supplement for 1937 for volumes 1-8 R.C.L. perm.

Vol.1-8, R.C.L. perm.

1-8, R.C.L. perm.

RULING CASE LAW; supplement for 1937 for volumes 1-8 R.C.L. perm.

Vol.1-8, R.C.L. perm.