Show i i RAFT AfT tAW LA I IN RUSSIA U IA rl OJ BY i. i r I i f Fearing Destruction t We Ve Don Dont Don't t Know When L We Ve Will Be Challenged Challenged Chal Chal- He Says I By Associated Press Pren MOSCOW T Tuesday A April 23 3 ivi Leon the BolI Bol Bol- 1 I minister of war and marine speaking at a a. a meeting of or the central executive last t 1 I r f night urged the Issuance of or a decree I for tor compulsory military ser l service c. c I destruction Ru Russia sla must have e an arm army ho lie said We c dont don't now the thC he hour hour- when we will be openly challenged b by the Imperialistic enemy t threatening us In the east t The hc central e executive adopted a res- res providing for tor tho training or of peasants and unemployed from tom 18 8 to 40 years cars of ot age ate for eight o weeks at least twelve twel bours weekly Boys s from Crom IG 16 to 18 IS will be bo trained 1 s similar 1 manner Women may vol- vol The enlistment will vIll be for or a t. t of ot six months fin and desertion rifi iI be punishable by imprisonment and r IKS s' s of oC citizenship GERMANY PROTESTS Germany German has protested to th the Bol- Bol foreign minister l' l M. M in Jn against as' th the landing of or allied I troops at declaring that permission for such landing was a a. violation of ot the Brest k treaty which stipulated d peace with Finland c 1 jand arid and non in Its Internal It was denied In the protest that i Germans had participated in the aId raid aIdI f tf et r the Finnish white guards upon J Kern em em r ind th the pl presence enCE of Russian troops be between between between be- be I tween Finland and Petrograd rad was vas ob objected ot- ot j to on the ground th that t th they y threatened to cross the frontier Mediation Medi Medi- I nUon of the Finnish Russo-Finnish conflict was promised if tho the go government prevented Plc violations v of the tr treaty aty A It fierce battle between the Finnish white bite zu guards nIs supported b- b by GermanI Germans German I ind wi much artillery and red guards near Finland Is reported Train Train- hads of ot wounded are arriving at Petrograd Pc- Pc from rom a frontier fi K I captured u by white guards In f view of or the proximity of Petrograd rad defensive measures hn have C been ta taken I cn and ncI orders have been Issued Issue for tor the armament ament of or combatants Invading I l territory tory APPEAL TO FRANCIS I The Finnish Bolshevik government o iLls fas protested to the American ambas- ambas i David l It II Francis and the allies' allies representatives n against the German of the white guards Suard declaring Finnish laborites will continue to for tor the e of ot freedom fooling feeling f t profound hatred and disdain forthe forthe for forthe the executioners of or nations and the labor hber Y r movement mO I t The German advance ad in Russia continue con con- con I i uninterruptedly The Thc German GermanI I forces have ha captured several cities and I i Rr n nearing capital of or the government gov gov- J of or the same name with bO 1 a population of or more than This city Is being evacuated c Leon I j 1 m 11 reply to a question aid gaid that the J I Id ance would probably continue until until un- un un-I un til ill peace with Ukraine has been cf- cf General Dutoff the rebel CO Cossack 1 chief has been captured by br Soviet I torce forces j I AMERICAN COOPERATION General Gentral Count von Mirbach l the theto I to German ambassador to Ru Russia sia ar ar- ar med lived today with a staff ot of more than I wenty persons persons including various t commissions and also a Turkish com com- J t lon In connection with his arrival ar- ar rival a prominent Bolshevik leader lealler ex ex- ex pressed surprise to the tho correspondent I Carding ardIng th tho attitude of ot the allies 1 toward ward the present Russian govern govern- tent ment particularly tho the American who j we Re the most sympathetic and th the most moat saYing Baying that Germany Germon will con- con trl Ru Russia lQ economically If it permitted sway away ii 1143 insisted on tho fr ot of f American merican cooperation Uch ica he declared would be advantage- advantage c cs to both sIdes Tho press also als also 1 oJ 6 i recognition cognition and allied ecot eco- eco l 8 t mio tt h this la is probable an and expresses the tho bott bo- bo uS The has hM decreed the 11 ot of foreign trade and iv treated T specIal board representing d departments to organize reg- reg uS Ltd d M an and fix the prIces of or all exports Imports Tho decree is ls effective |