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Show KULCHAKS ARMY ! BEGINS ADVANCE ' Marked Successes Reported i in New Offensive Against Bolshevists. i ' Smallpox Adding to Burden of Woe in Petrograd, : Thousands Dying. PARIS. March 24. (French Wireless (Service.) Siberian troops of the Kolehalc j government have successfully begun an .offensive west of the Urals on the line ifrom Perm to the Trans-Siberian railway, S advices from Omsk Bay. At certain points the Bolshevtkl have been driven sback more than thirty miles. The Siberians Si-berians have captured Okansk. fifty rnllcs southwest of Perm. ' On a fifty-mile front' between OkansK laud Osa. along the Kama river, the Bol-fshevlkl Bol-fshevlkl have been driven back twenty .fmiles. The Kolchak forces also are repoited to jhavo obtained marked success in the .region of Bird;, northwest of Ufa. iSverdloff's Death a Mystery. i -Brief . dispatches from Moscow an-iV.Oiiclng an-iV.Oiiclng the death of Sverdloff, chairman of Jtlic executive committee of the "All-.yUdstilaij "All-.yUdstilaij Congress Of Soviets," are eaua-.-in'muci speculation among Russians in ipacl, who are eagerly awaiting fuller de-i'ia-118. Jlls death Is reported to have 6c-i 6c-i ulirod '.I'ebriary 16, after the convening f' -.the ' sixteenth conKress of. .Russian iov(ets, which co::..n'uea its meeting in ftfoacow. j I -.fcjverdloi'f was one of Premier Uenii.e's 'r(i'6rigest supporters. . . .' 1' Wount von Brockdorf-Rantzau, the Ger-'3iini Ger-'3iini foreign minister, has sent Carl Kautsky, one of the undersecretaries In the '. foreign ministry, to Moscow to see liio chiefs of the soviet government . and to furnish an accurate report on the slt-Vistion slt-Vistion which will allow the foreign minister min-ister to study methods as to' the bringing fcfioot of closer political and economic re-Utiaivi re-Utiaivi with the Russian Bolshevik gov-t-rfiihent, says a Zurich dispatch- to the -Ma.i.-.. Dying by the Thousands. taring February more than 113.000 per-liops. per-liops. or about 11 per cent of the entire papulation, died In Petrograd, according to' Russian police statistics received - in Parrs. , i : American relief workers who left Moscow, Mos-cow, on February 12 say that - deaths in mi city early in February averaged 4000 alaily. They say that conditions there ere similar to those in-Petrograd. whtre smaJlpox, typhus, starvation and the "jrunger rlague" were raging, unchecked. Cofnjis are no longer sold in Moscow, but are 'only rented for use at funerals. Ravaged by Smallpox. ; STOCKHOLM, March 24. In addition ttvspotted fever and typhoid fever, Petro-grsd Petro-grsd is being ravaged by smallpox, according ac-cording to advices through Helsingfors. All, the hospitals are crowded and the 'mortality is Increasing dally. The bodies of the dead are collected in big wooden -cases and emptied Into large graves, the cases then being returned to the hospitals, hos-pitals, lllled again, and the process repeated, re-peated, i - VIENNA. Sunday. March 23. It Is -learned from tho Ukraine that negotiations negotia-tions -have begun between Ukraine and Russian Bolshevik cVelegates for the settlement set-tlement of differences. Bolshevik Leader Itadowsky has arrived at Ukrainian head-cfuarters. head-cfuarters. it is reported. |