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Show Bolshevists Occupy the City of Ekaterinburg in Ural Mining Region, a Kolchak Supply Base. ! Republic Proclaimed by Division of Oldenburg; Foodstuff Prices Take Fall in City of Berlin. LONDON, July 16. Ekaterinburg, 1G0 miles southeast of Perm, has been captured cap-tured by the Bolsheviki, according to a Russian wifeless dispatch received here today. The town was occupied Monday. I I Ekaterinburg, the center of the Ural mining region, has been one of the main i supply bases of the northern wing of the i Kolchak army. If the report of its cap-: cap-: ture is true, the Kolchak forces have ; lost their last important base north of the ; Trans-Siberian line at Tcheliabinsk. The : Bolsheviki reported the capture of Perm ; in a dispatch through London, July 2. I One year ego today, July 16, 1918, i Nicholas Romanoff, former emperor of i Russia, disappeared from Ekaterinburg, land reports that he was executed by ; order of the Ural soviet on that day have 1 not been disproved. The clty also was the scene of the death of several other members of the Russian royal family. BIRKENFELD HOISTS FLAG OF REPUBLIC; SECESSION DECLARED v COBDENZ, July 16. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) A republic has been proclaimed pro-claimed in Berk fold, In the allied area of occupation. A provisional government was formed Monday and complete separation sepa-ration from Oldenburg proclaimed. Firkenfeld is a small principality of Germany, Inclosed by Rhenish Prussia, although belonging to Oldenburg. It has an area of 194 square miles and a population popu-lation of about 45,000. The principal city and capital Is Blrkenfeid, twenty-five miles east-southeast of Treves. The American area of occupation Includes Treves, but Birkenfeld Is In the French area to the south of the Americans. FOODSTUFF PRICES TAKE BIG DROP IN CAPITAL OF HUNS BERLIN. Tuesday, July 15. H3y the Associated Press.) Prices on all foodstuffs food-stuffs have fallen with a crash in Berlin as a result of the lifting of the blockade. They betran to show weakness when it was rumoVed that the embargo would be lifted, but the real drop came only when illicit dealers, with huge concealed stocks, brought them out in a virtual panic to unload before competing supplies entered Germany. Tons of provisions are belnp shipped in from occupied territories, while everywhere every-where in the city ureat stores of coffee, cocoa, butter, sausages and other supplies have made their appears nee. Coffee prices fell from an average of forty marks to below twenty yesterday, and the product prod-uct could easily be bought for fifteen. Other food prices were correspondingly cut. Restaurants, however, still maintain main-tain absurdly high prices and apparently apparent-ly intend to continue to do s as long as possible. RUSSIAN BLOCKADE UNDER DISCUSSION BY COUNCIL OF FIVE . PARTS. Tuesday, July IS. (By the Associated Press. ) The council of five met this afternoon, its chief topic of discussion dis-cussion being the Russian blockade. There have been proposals lib at the powers shall allow ships to enter Russian ports uiubr speciM permits, the T'nlted States having constantly insisted that there has boon no blockade npalnst Russia except such as Is incidental to the embargo on imports to Germany. Consequently, the Amerb-an delegates were not ready to take any action in the ma tter unt U instructions in-structions have been received from Washington. Wash-ington. A note has been received from Bela Kun. the foreign minister of the Hun-garinn Hun-garinn soviet government, declaring that the Czechs and Rumania tis violated th" terms of the armistice with Hungary and that, consequently. Hungarian forces" were ordered ro cross the boundaries fixed hy the armistice. The note claims that this (Continued on Page 11, Column .) EKATERINBURG IS CAPTURED BY REDS (Continued from Page One. order was issued In self-defense. The boundaries fixed by the armistice are so uncertain that the supreme council has referred the matter to a military commission commis-sion for decision. |