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Show ANOTHER BUSS TOWN TAKEN 8? THEJMilS Nikolaycv Captured by the Army Which Recently Occupied Oc-cupied Odessa, the Chief Black Sea Port. SOVIETS ADJOURN THEIR CONGRESS i Removal of Capital to Moscow Mos-cow Approved ; Evacuation Evacua-tion of Petrograd Completed. LONDON', March 17. The Germans have occupied Nikolayev, in addition to Odessa, according to a Reuter's dispatch from Petrograd. Nikolayev, about forty miles north-nortlnvest north-nortlnvest of Kherson, on the Bug river, has occupied an important place in the naval defenses of Russia. It lias a great navy yard and is the seat of a military governor who is commander of the Black sea fleet. The approaches to the city are strongly fortified. Its population is about 100,000. Nikolayev lies about seventy miles northeast of Odessai and is reported to be Russia's greatest wheat storing center. cen-ter. An American grain expert, who returned re-turned recently from that area, said that tlie storehouses at Nikolayev contained 3,000,000 bushels of wheat. Within recent years the imperial government gov-ernment constituted Nikolayev the shipbuilding ship-building base for the Black sea fleet. The naval works have an area of nearly 200 i acres and equipment for the employment i of 1 0,000 men. SOVIETS ADJOURN AFTER MOSCOW IS MADE THE CAPITAL MOSCOW, Saturday, tveh 16. The all-Russian congress of Soviets Adjourned this evening after having approved of the removal of the capital to Moscow and voting to elect a new central executive committee to consist of 200 members. M. Sverdloff of the central executive committee, in the closing speech at the congress, said it was unfortunate that such a peace had to be ratified, but he hoped the Russian proletariet would soon come into its own. and regain its lost position, lie pointed out to the departing depart-ing members of the congress the urgent necessity for organization for the defense of tlie fatherland and resistance to the enemy's attack, "which may come suddenly sud-denly sooner than many may expect." EVACUATION OF PETROGRAD, HAS' BEEN COMPLETED LONDON, Thursday, March 14. The evacuation of Petrograd lias been completed, com-pleted, according to a Reuter's dispatch from that 'city. Quoting an official communication. com-munication. None of the population will be permitted to leave the city hereafter, and, in order to make certain that the order is obared, all passenger train service serv-ice has.bc.en suspended. The council of commissaries of "the Commune of Petrograd,' which will be the official designation of Petrograd and the district surrounding it in future, has authorized the reappearance of so-called bourgeois newspapers which had been suppressed since the beginning of the German offensive. Occupation by the Turks of the entire Batum region has been confirmed. j . Tjatcst details of the German occupation occupa-tion of Abo, Finland, state that 3000 troops with artillery came from the Aland islands in several transports, preceded by on ice-breaker. Tlie red guards refused re-fused to surrender, and the Germans bombarded bom-barded the town Cor half an hour, forcing the red guards to retire. The Germans seized three Russian torpedo boats and some mine sweeper?. RED GUARDS FIGHT . TEUTONIC TROOPS SENT TO FINLAND AMSTERDAM, March 17. The troops sent recently by Germany to Finland to assist in putting down the Red Guard are meeting with hostile forces which are continually being increased, says a semi-official statement, issued in Berlin. On this account, further help hy the Germans is said in be urgently needed STOCKHOLM, March 17. Communication Communica-tion with Ilelsinpfors and other points in southern Finland has been broken. The Germans are believed to have cut the cable between Sweden and the Aland islands. PET ROOK AD. Friday, March lS.The Finnish council is prepared to arrange a compromise with the Germans. It is (Continued on Fase Three. 1 t ANOTHER ROSS TQ1 TiEl BY GERMANS (Continued from Page One.) said the Germans have demanded the disarmanent of the Red Guard. The wife of Grand Duke Michael has requested permission to follow her hus" band into exile. It is reported that under German pressure pres-sure the banks will soon be denationalized denational-ized War Prisoners Organized. TOKIO, Thursday, March 14. (Via Shanghai.) It is reported that- the Germans Ger-mans are trying to organize two army corps of German war prisoners of Russia. One corps, it is said, is being secretly organized at Irktusk, Siberia. Two .cavalry .cav-alry corps also are being formed. Gompers's Message Read. MOSCOW, Friday, March 15. At the session today of the all-Russian Soviet congress, M. Sverdloff of the central executive committee, read the message sent to the Russian people early this month, on behalf-' of American labor, by Samuel Gompers, in which the assistance of the working people of America was promised to the Russians. The message, which was read before the vote in ratification rati-fication of the peace treaty was taken, evoked considerable applause. No reply was sent, as M. Sverdloff said the message to the American people, -in response to President Wilson's communication, communi-cation, was sufficient. . Guards Arrested. LONDON, March 17. The Renter's, Limited, correspondent at Petrograd says that strong detachments of the red army on Friday night arrested a regirnent of the Priobrajinsky guards on suspicion of counter-revolutionary designs. M. Joffe. who was chairman of the Russian peace delegation at Brost-Lit-ovsk, has been appointed Russian ambassador ambas-sador at Berlin. Army for Ukraine. LONDON. March 17. German officers have been "invited" to organize an army in Ukraine, according to a dispatch from the official Russian news agency, which says this information is from an official Austrian source. Heir Ballin in Petrograd. PETROGRAD, Saturday, March 16. Albert Ballin, director general of the Hamburg-American line, and Herr Lang-hof, Lang-hof, a Prussian financier, are expected to arrive in Petrograd on a business mission. mis-sion. - Herr Ballin is one of the principal figures fig-ures in the German business world. His going to Petrograd is significant, not only of the extent to which Russia has been opened to Germany, but of the importance im-portance of ' Germany's plans for industrial indus-trial exploitation of Russia. |
