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Show RAOICALFORCES Ukrainians Are Pursuing Bolsheviki Along the Dnieper River. GENEVA. Sept. 9. (French Wireless Service.) The city of Kiev, which recently re-cently was captured from the Bolsheviki, has not only been entirely cleared of Bolshevik forces, but the Ukrainians have advanced more than thirty miles northward, north-ward, the Ukrainian press bureau here announces. The red troops are being pursued by the Ukrainians along- the river Dnieper. PARIS, Sept. 9. Russian Bolsheviki have proposed peace to the Lithuanians, according to reports from Polish sources. . It was reported September 2 that a force of Bolsheviki was surrounded on the Lithuanian front and was offering to negotiate with the Lithuanians. The next day a Berne dispatch stated that formal proposals had been made by the Bolsheviki, but no confirmation of this report has as yet been received. LONDOX, Sept. 5. Upper Silesia, where serious conflicts are in progress between the Polish and German elements in anticipation of the proposed plebiscite over the transier of the territory to Poland, will be occupied in the near future by allied troops, according to a statement state-ment made by General Dupont, it was learned today on semiofficial authority. General Dupont, rtpresentlnc France: General Malcolm, Great Britain; General Rencivenga, Italy, and Colonel Goodyear, the United States. after visiting the camps in the region, are declared to have telegraphed to Paris urging the necessity of this action. PARIS. Sept. 9. (Havas.) The German Ger-man peace delegation sent a note to the general secretariat of the peace conference confer-ence this morning on the Silefian question ques-tion The note complained of disturbances disturb-ances in upper Silesia, alleged to have been' incited by the Poles. LONDON, Sept. 9. Occupation of Pet-ropavlovsk, Pet-ropavlovsk, on the Ishlm river, about 175 miles west of Omsk, by Bolshevik forces is claimed in a Russian soviet official statement received today. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. Counselor De-Iniehl, De-Iniehl, charge of the Japanese embassy, todav' authorized cniegorlc.il denial of a statement attributed to Bolshevist wtitvcs in .Moscow that Admiral Kolchnk had applied ap-plied to Japan for help, offering. In return, re-turn, the northern portion of the island of Saghalln and the L'ssuri vailey on the mainland of Siberia. Mr. Debuehi points out that Admiral Kolehak could not make a binding pledge relating to Russian territory, and that Japan has been all along giving all aid possible. |