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Show mm ties CITYON VOLGA The Bolsheviki Government Warns Population to Leave Petrograd. 9 BERNE, May 15. The troops of Admiral Ad-miral Kolcbak have captured Samara, an important city on ihe Volga river, the Ukrainian press bureau here says it learns from a well-informed source. HELSIXGFORS, Wednesday, May 14. The Russian soviet government, according to reports received here, has advised the population of Petrograd to leave without delay. All government departments will depart from Petrograd by July 1. Recent reports from Finnish sources have been that the Finns were preparing to march on Petrograd, where, it is said, the Bolsheviki were having difficulty in maintaining order. BERNE, Wednesday, May 14. An Isolated Iso-lated band of Russian prisoners of war, armed and wearing Bavarian uniforms and under the command of Spartacan leaders, was overwhelmed by Wuerttemberg troops in a wood near Graefelfing, Bavaria, according ac-cording to newspaper reports. They were court martial ed and seventy-two men, with the leaders, were condemned to death and shot in a gravel pit near Lochausen. LONDON, May 15. General Denikine, commander of the anti-Bolshevik forces, has frustrated by a counter-offensive the Bolshevik plan to bisect his army by capturing cap-turing Rostov-on-the-Don, at the head of the sea of Azov. The war office makes this announcement tonight. The Bolsheviki Bol-sheviki have been compelled to move their positions to the northward. |