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Show City ' Is Capital of the Government of the Same Name and a Railroad Rail-road Junction of Considerable Con-siderable Importance a Short Distance West of Asiatic Russia. j BOLSHEVIKI ALSO CAPTURE ODESSA Kishinev, Chief Town of Bessarabia, Taken by the Rumanian Troops; Polish Legion Declares War Against the Men Now in Control at Petrograd. PETROGRAD, Feb. 1. The Bolslievikl liave capturejl Orenburg, capital of the government of Orenburg. Orenburg is situated on the right bank (if the Vral river, in European Russia, a short distance west of tho Asiatic frontier. fron-tier. It is a railroad junction of considerable consid-erable importance and also a manufacturing manufac-turing center. When General Kaledines, hetman of the Don Cossacks, aided by General Korniloff. started a revolution against the Bolshevik!, General Dutofr was given command of that branch of tho counterrevolutionary counter-revolutionary army which was to proceed pro-ceed northeastward through Orenburg, capture Orenburg city, and thence go northward and endeavor to isolate European Euro-pean Kussia from the food supplies of Asiatic Russia, especially Siberia. |