Show BOl BOLSHEVISM M IN 4 IA n M J TOTTERING Reported Evacuation of Petrograd Petrograd Pe- Pe Petrograd Viewed jis s Beginning Beginning Beginning Be Be- ginning of End By Associated Press Prell WASHINGTON May 2 Evacuation I of ot Petrograd rad by tho re reported reported reported re- re ported in dispatches from Crom In the tho opinion or ot observers here may prove to be bo the initial break In the erected by the radical leaders leaders lead lead- ers which If It recent developments do continue continue continue con con- their normal course courso would lead to the complete completo disintegration of ot the Government o In RUI Russia ID Allied successes In the Archangel and Murm sectors although minor In comparison with the great extent of oC territory Involved are expected by officials here to tei have hao material Influence Influence ence especially when hen taken In conJunction conjunction conjunction con con- junction with Ith the forward movement of ot Czechs and loyal Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian forces forces' on widely separated sectors sec- sec to ton tors RED RULE LIMITED Analysis o of the military map of ot Russia Russia Russia Rus Rus- sia maintained hero for tor tho the Information tion of ot the tho general staff shows that a gradual encircling encircling- o of the center of oC Bolshevism has been under way for Cor months Tho The effect has been to throw a 8 wall of ot antl Bolshevik forces around central Russia narrowing the territory territory terri terri- tor tory held by the soviet let to a comparatively comparatively small proportion of ot the area they had occupied Troops Troop of or the Dol antl-Dol anti antl leader Kolchak according to latest reports have been striking west In iii tho the general direction of ot Moscow and no now hold n. n general line tine through and Kind forty miles from Samara to on the Ural river while due duo north of ot Moscow the Moscow the allied Archangel Arch Arch- 1 angel front runs south to and then Wes west to tho the gulf KUlt of or Onega where It connects connect substantially with tho the coast sector EVEN GERMANS HELP The ring hero Is taken up in ef effect effect t ef- b by the tho Finnish revolutionaries who hold the line lino do down don n to the gulf gult of or Finland inland The Czecho armies are actively engaged on a front which stretches from the gulf of or Bar a ato to thence to the tho gult at Narva orva Attention of or the tho Bolshevik leaders I ii is held to the east b by the energetic Polish forces and strangely enough b by German republican forces and to the south by the Rumanians and French WOULD MAKE EXCHANGE LO LONDON DOr- DOr DOrMay May 2 The 2 The British h government government gov so announces that the Bolshevist government has made a n proposal nl to exchange tho the members of or tho the British military mission to tho the Caucasus for tor certain Russia subjects now in the hands o of the British government go It Is also announced that negotiations are proceeding for tor the exchange o of all British British Brit Brit- ish prisoners in the hands of ot the Bol Dol- |