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Show five armored trains also were captured. A north Russian corps co-operating with the Esthonians successfully attacked at-tacked the Bolshevik positions at the Gatchina railway station "thirty miles south of Petrograd. 3f On the Murmansk front in Russia allied forces have captured Medvyejya-gora, Medvyejya-gora, at the northwestern end of Lake Onega, after a series of actions in which the Bolshevik rear guard suffered severely, se-verely, a statement issued by the British Brit-ish "war office tonight says. iifiir LEifiGini Reds Evacuating Ancient Capital; Allied Successes at Arms Reported. LONDON, May 23 The Bolsheviki have begun the evacuation of Moscow, according to reports brought from Pet-rograd Pet-rograd to Copenhagen by travelers and forwarded by the Exchange Telegraph company. Typhus is raging in Moscow and the situation there is considered desperate. The railway lines between a number of places in Central Russia have been dismantled, the reports say, in order to improve main line service out of Moscow. j Esthonian forces are rapidly ap- j proaching Potrograd from the west, ac- i cording to an official statement issued j at Esthonian army headquarters and , received here. Tho text of the statement state-ment reads: "The Esthonians are advancing swiftly on Petrograd. Besides the town of Yamburg, the railway stations at Weymarn and Moloskowitz, on the Nar-va-Petrograd line, have been captured and the town of Koporje and several villages near Kohganpia, on the Finnish gulf, have been occupied. This brings ho Esthonians within fifty miles of Petrograd." Thousands of Bolsheviki soldiers in the Gatchina area and in the coast region re-gion west of Petrograd who surrendered with their arms and ammunition, the correspondent adds, joined in the at-iacks at-iacks on their former comrades. It is reported in Helsingi'ors from Petrograd that tho Bolsheviki are prepared pre-pared to defend tho city and that all he workmen have been armed. The defenders are said to number 100,000. Operations 'of non-Bolshevik forces igainst Petrograd are having great and npid success, according to various re-orts re-orts roceived from Ilehiingf ors. Tho orrcspondent of the Daily Mail at the innish capital says that tho Bolsheviki csistancc seems to be brok'.-n and they avo lost several thousand prisoners ind thirty guns. A great number of machlno guns aud |