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Show BOLSHEVIKI AND UKRAINIANS IN PITCHED BATTLE LONDON, Jan. 17. A pitched battle bat-tle has occurred in the streets of Odessa Odes-sa between Ukrainian and Bolshevik troops, according to a dispatch received in Petrograd and forw-arded by Renter's Ren-ter's Limited. The Ukrainians held the theater building and posted machine ma-chine guns in near-by streets. The shooting soon spread throughout the city. The chief of the Bolshevik troops was wounded mortally. A battleship and other warships in the roadstead opened fire on the town. Accounts of the battle difer as to whether the Bolsheviki have taken the arsenal. |