Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-25 | Page 1 | Reds in Retreat Burning Stores

Petrcgrad in Turmoil as Bolshevists Are Closely Pressed by Foes. LO NT D ON, a Cay 2 4. G rea 6- f i re s and loud explosions have occurred in and around Ytrorad, according to reports for tva.ro ?d by I)aily Mail's coiT-'-r oi dent at HclMnyfurs. imdf-r thae of Thursday. It is believed that the B-jlsheviki, pressed by the Kpthonin ativn not.', are destroying the niiiiMtions in T'etrorad. Maehhio gun firing als h'i9 be?:i henrd in FeUograd. and it is reported that the population has risen uga-inst the Bolshe-viki. Bolshe-viki. A unoat chance has como over the situ- atiou in Ruisda. through the successes of the various anti-Bolshevik fores. l'clro-grad l'clro-grad is closely threatened by the ad', ances of the Finns and the Esthomans on either side of the Gulf of Finland, and by that of General M.iyi'ard m the rcginn of Lr.ke One-a, while BohJicvik attacks on the Archangel front have ceased, and the Bolsheviki have been unabie to huck Admiral Ko-chak's forces west oi the Urals. Polish troops have captured the important impor-tant town of Lutsk, in Yulhynia, northeast of Lembcrg, from the Ukrainians, a Central Cen-tral News d:spateh fiom Berlin says. The Poles also took 2UU0 prisoners and a large number of guns. ARCHANGEL, Friday, May 23. (By die Associa t-" d Pros?'. ) A merie-.an railroad Troops are pi.-,; ing an important pa ri in the rapid advance of the allied troops southward along the Murmansk railw.-.y. The Bo;she iki, as thev move som h ard, : : are destroying bribes in an effort to 1 j impede Die a "dies. J he Ainorica.iis, how-lever, how-lever, are working hard putting the track j into shape again. American mot or In finches ba.ve been I prong'.'"! t om flat cars from Murmansk, and lit in expected will sckmi be opra f inr; witn other craft on l.al-e '"nu-?;.i.. which is connect-- d by rivers and ci n,a)s wit h La ke Ladoga, the largeM in Ivarupe, thu Neva i ri1 "i and Pcm"u;i ad. I The artillery ( r,m iniK"? aetiv on the (Oont'iiued on Page 3, Column 2.) REDS II RETREAT Bill STORES (Continued from Preceding Tago.) Archangel front and there aj-c occjisional raids, but iio serious nhLinsr. Several hundred A merica.ii infantrymen are a till In the fl KlUin line on tho Dvma and A'as:a sectors. Tlioy will soon ho relieved. American eii.iriKerw, however, continue to work on nearly, all sectors, j OMSK, Siberia. Saturday. May 17. (Russian Telegraphic Agency.) The Moscow Narodny bank, financial center of the Russian co-operative organizations, has issued new stock to the amount of 65,000.000 rubles. The bank, which now has its main office in Siberia, lias opened a teries of branches between the Urals and Vladivostok. More than 60 per cent of the new stock already has been taken. It is announced that the zemstvos throughout Siberia have united in one organization similar to the former all-Russian all-Russian Zemstvos union.