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Show Fall Back Before Advance Ad-vance of Poles; Letts Take Mitau, Reds Retiring Re-tiring on Wide Front. Virtually All of the Ukraine Now in Hands of Bolshevists; French Garrison Withdraws. HELSINGFORS, March 20. The Eolsheviki forces have been compelled com-pelled to abandon Dvinsk (Dima-hurg), (Dima-hurg), 110 miles southeast of Riga. COPENHAGEN, March 20. Bolshevik troops, under pressure of Polish forces, have been compelled to retire and evacuate evacu-ate Pinsk, 100 miles east of Brest-Litovsk, according to a dispatch from Warsaw. The important railroad junction town of Mltau, southwest of Riga, has been captured cap-tured by Lettish troops, a Lettisn official offi-cial statement issued on Wednesday announces. an-nounces. The Bolshevik), the statement adds, are retiring along the whole front. LONDON, March 20. Virtually all of the Ukraine is now in the hands of the Bolsheviki, according to advices reaching London today. In heavy fighting at Nikolaiev, northeast of Odessa, the Bolsheviki Bol-sheviki lost between 5000 and 8000 men, but forced the French garrison, after fierce fighting, to withdraw to Odessa. Further east, the advices add, the Bolsheviki Bol-sheviki have reached the Isthmus of Perekop, leading to the Crimea. WASHINGTON, March 20. Dispatches received at the state department today from Sweden said social revolutionists in Petrograd and Moscow have been active in demonstrations against the Bolsheviki and that rioting' in the streets had occurred. oc-curred. A Bolshevik commissioner who attempted to address one meeting of social so-cial revolutionists was mobbed. According to these advices, all roads leading Into Petrograd were closed to passenger pas-senger traffic on March io. SOVIET READY TO BUY SUPPLIES ' IN U. S. MntuET NEW YORK, March 20. As the first step toward obtaining recognition by the United States, the Russian soviet government gov-ernment is prepared to deposit 200,000.000 in gold with American and European in reconstruction work, according to a! formal statement issued here tonight by L. C. A. K. Martens. American represen- : tatlve of the Demidoff Iron & Steel , works in Moscow, through the "bureau of representatives of the Russian Socialist 1 Soviet republic." j Asserting that he had received this j week his appointment as official repre- sentative of the soviet government in the j United Sta tcs, Mr. Martens said he had j forwarded his credentials to the state de-j partment and meanwhile had opened tern- porary headquarters in this city. With ' j the credentials, he said, he had sent a i report on conditions in Russia and an I expression of his government's desire "to ! re-esiabllsh normal relations between the j I two countries." 1 Mr. Martens said that, in addition to ; ! the ?L'00. 000,000 to he deposited to defray ; 1 1 : c cost of initial purchases, the soviet 1 government was prepared to submit vari-I vari-I ous propositions which, he said, he hoped would prove acceptable to American 1 manufacturers and exporters, looking toward establishment of credit for addi-j addi-j tioual government purchases. REDS MAKE EFFORT TO DISLODGE ALLIES AND HOLD UKRAINE ! The Bolsheviki apparently are encased ! in a strong effort to subdue Russian op-! op-! position in the Ukraine and to drive allied al-lied forces from that region before spring. If the T-Lshevlki can rcntrol the gr.al at:rieiitural region of the Fit ra ine ' t hey might relieve the serious food shortage , in Tdoscow and the north. Troons of the Mos.-ow government In tlte iast three weeks have occupied Kiev and Zhitomir, in the center of the Ukraine, and driven the peasant Government Govern-ment of General Petlura from Kiev and , Wiuniiza a nd thence to Proskurov, in Podolia, fortv miles east of the Iwrder of GaUeia. A Kussian wireless messnge Wednesday Wednes-day reported that nou- I in! -i :ev; k forces, a i ter heicir remilsed by i he l-.niip. - were retiring on T'devs... An offn-'Uij Grerk r-'port fmm S.t ton ik i sa id ! iin t 1 Gre--k troops had nef.Mt'-d t.ie F.olsheviki i at Kherson, northeast of (Jdc.-a. j Giving Ground Here. j In the rcn'er o' tre frrr.t be"Aeer. i Ode.-sa and Kia the B-v.-'r.eviki anpar- i cntly have been u:vi;;- proiir.fi. as. rej-nrf; say that the Ho'.s.ievjki ha-, e been for ed i to evacuate Pi risky by the P.. lea. n x--r region a""Oi:t R.ea. IeJttsh C'ir.cs have ! tf-;en the Bolsheviki steadny e,,c r,-; 1 and ii,-iw ;i re a : M i : a 'i, a ncj t t h ; r : y-f i c ! miles srun hwe-rt of 1 . ' I Tuere ha b. -n mo: e or Vts i- v h The ;.ir f.-r':-..u'-: ."i 1 -.n ; f-or.f ' S.r- ,f A r-h;-, -L-. !. f : r. -. : j y.r 11 Viera-.-al Den-k'U v o ' ;'-'ei l-oM'.'v.ii ar;v v e ; era ' : : z u '-,z (C"nt:rmed on Page Column 3.) I BOLSHEVIK! FORCED TO EVACUATE PINSK (Continued from Page One.) have been that flif Kolohak government' was preparing for an extended offensive movement west of the Urals eariv in the spring. The plan of the Kolchak government gov-ernment is to advanco north we& two rd from Perm to join hands with the allied forces at Archangel and southwestward from Ufa to connect with General Deni-kin Deni-kin in the Caucasus. Defense of Odessa. In the defense of Odessa and the nnar-by nnar-by region French, British, Greek and Rumanian Ru-manian forces are aiding non-Bolshevik Ukrainians and Cossack detachments of General Denikln's forces. In the center cen-ter of the western front the Bolshevlkl are opposed by the Poles, while in the north tho Lithuanians. Letts and Es-thoniana Es-thoniana are fighting the soviet forces. Only in the Archangel i-pgion sre American forces actively engaged against the Bnlshevlki. Other allied troops in the r'Tth are British, Canadians and Serbians. Ser-bians. They are aided by non-Bolshevik Russian.?. The line of the L"ral& Is held by troops of the Omsk government and Czecho-Slovaks, with the main transportation transpor-tation line, the trans-Siberian railway, guarded by allied forces, principally Japa- i nese, with America ns at the extreme j eastern end near Vladivostok. Executioner Is Executed. COPENHAGEN. March o. A Bolshevik Bolshe-vik m-'Vsgjinpfr of Pot rogr;i, publishes a ' Ion list of pcrxuis who htiv bnen cxe-1 cxe-1 i'uio,j in omiC'-'iirm with the cuunlor-nn o-1 o-1 lu! ion. Anions r.he nams on t'no list is t h;i t of M MdHmo t? tern berg -.Takol ova, prt-sidt-nt of the comm'Heo dealing with exnr-tilinns. who herself hw-i Iven held rr'spuiiMhle for t.hnu md. of fxecu t inns. Nu ri'ii.-im i.-.ii.--iL-iwl for Imt sedition. |