Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-06-19 | Page 2 | German Troops in Russia Start New Offensive

GERMAN TROOPS IN RUSSIA START NEW OFFENSIVE LONDON, June 18. German troops in southern Russia began an offensive eastward east-ward on the Voronesh front on June 15, says a Russian government wireless message. mes-sage. The Germans are advancing in the Varniska, Rostov and Vetluisk regions and Foreign Minister Tchitcherin has informed in-formed Ambassador Joffe . at Berlin of the latest developments. The ambassador ambas-sador also was advised that the German commander on the Voronesh front had proposed a new boundary line to the Russian Rus-sian commander. The Bolshevik war department has ordered or-dered the mobilization of all workers and peasants born from 1893 to 1S97 in a large number of provinces. The men are called for six months' asctive service and those refusing to serve will be punished pun-ished severely by revolutionary tribunals.