Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-09 | Page 2 | Joint Attack on Petrograd Plan

JQINTATTAGK 01 PETRDGRAD PLAN Paris Council Approves Movement of Finnish and Omsk Troops. PARIS, Mmidfty, July 7. Approval of a plan for a concerted attack upon J'et rogrnd by Finn i.-di t mops and the 'forces tii' the Kolchak government at Omsk was given today by the council of five. A joint note ha.i been sent the military mili-tary at fur hes of tins I'm ted States, (treat lirilain, r'nineo and Jtnly at Jiel-hing Jiel-hing fo rs insl rue ( ing them to nupport I he Pi n n is li govern me nt if it derided to accede to the request of Kolchak to insist, him in the campaign. There is no i nd icat ion t ha t tin; allied al-lied and associated powers propose to go further at this time in helping Kolchak Kol-chak s plan, but their act ion in sup-porting sup-porting the Pinns is regarded ns equivalent equiv-alent to mhsu ranee t hat they will tee the Kolchak government carried through. WASH I NOTON, July 8. Definite information that the iiolsheviki authorities au-thorities are planning to evacuate Petrograd has been received tn official circles here, l'ecision to quit the capital cap-ital was said to have been violently opposed by some clement s of t he. government.