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Show ODESSA CAPTURED BY BOLSHEVIKI SATURDAY NIGHT JASSV. Rumania, Sunday, Jan. 27. Odessa vas .captured by the Bolshevik! Saturday night. The Bolshevik troops are now in full control of that city. Kuihinev, capital of Bessarabia, and the scene of Jewish massacres fifteen years ago, was taken today by Rumanian forces who were . sent there in response to an appeal for aid from the local Bessarabia government. Odessa is the most important city and seaport of southern Russia and the fourth city of the empire in population. It is located lo-cated in the government of Kherson, a ehort distance east of the mouth of the Dnieper river, ninety miles southwest of Kherson and about 400 miles northeast of Constantinople. The city is of modern growth and well laid out and wears a west European rather than a Russian aspect. The imperial new Russian university, uni-versity, founded in istio, is located here and had before the wr more than 2000 students Immense quantities of grain are exported from this port, as it is the natural outlet for the southwestern provinces prov-inces of the empire. The last available census, that of 101, gave the population 8S approximately 45u,000 persons, of whom nearly one-third were Jew.?, Kishinev, with a population in IS',17 of about Mi). 000. is the chief center of Bessarabia for trade in grain, wool, tallow, tal-low, hides and tobacco. It is located on the Byk river, eighty-five miles northwest north-west of Odessa and thirty miles from the Rumanian border. The city presents little of interest outside of the motley composition com-position of its population, which consists of Rumanians, Russians, Jews, Bui- ?n fin ns, Germans, Tartars and gypsies. ! W'tnr- rulture and th growing of tobacco! are Liie chief iinJu.sme;-;. |