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Show GERMANS ARE NOW IN FULL CONTROL OF CAUCASUS MOSCOW, Friday, May 10. (By the Associated Press.) Through the capture of Rostov-on-Don. the Germans have gained control of the Caucasus, the grain districts In the Donetz basin and the coal, iron and oil fields. Northern Russia Rus-sia is now cut off from the Caucasus, excepting ex-cepting for a single railroad running through Tzaritsin, in the southern part of the government of Saratov, which the Germans are now threatening. Coupled with the fall of Sebastopol rind the overthrow of the Ukrainian rada and the establishment in the Ukraine of a bourgeois government, wholly under German dominion, the capture of Rostov-on-Don has created great uneasiness in Moscow and Petrograd. A German advance ad-vance in central Russia is generally feared and the removal of the capital to Yekaterinburg', Yeka-terinburg', in the Ural mountains, is being be-ing discussed. Germany's overthrow of the Ukraine government, with which it has made peace, is regarded by north Russia as a step toward its occupation. Within a few weeks the future of Petrogract'and Moscow Mos-cow probably will be determined, as it is considered that the soviet government either must submit to German domination domina-tion or retreat eastward and prepare for a defense against the invaders. Effective resistance will be difficult without outside assistance, because of the lack of technical experts and supplies. The hitter feeling against Germany is intenslfledt by the ruthless seizures in Ukraine and a growing disposition to accept ac-cept allied aid if the entente allies will recognize the Bolehevik government is evident. |