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Show GERMANY PLANS OCCUPATION OF RUSSIA, CLAIM LONDON. May 11. Russia has been suddenly faced with events that may again change the political outlook, the I'etrograd correspondent of the Daily Express telegraphs. Germany, he says, has apparently found that economic dominion do-minion over Russian territory is insufficient, insuf-ficient, and is seeking military occupation. occu-pation. An extra session of the Bolshevik government council has been held in -Petrograd, to aiscuss the 8ituation created cre-ated by the ultimatum recently delivered deliv-ered by the German ambassador, Count von Mirbaeh, which embodied demands of a character apparently calculated to turn Hussia virtually into a German colony. Premier Lenine's speech at this meeting was extremely pessimistic, the correspondent reportn." According to the newspaper Podnia. the question of transferring the capital to NijDi-Novfjorod was broached. as was the subject of immediate militarr measures for the defense of Moscow against possible aerial attacks. |