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Show L H OFl. I O A J5 IfAVEMOHMWi Ninety-five Americans Start j for Petrograd, Together With Italian Party of 71. WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 Ninety-five Ninety-five Americans, Including all consular officials except Consular-General Poole, all the personnel of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. representatives of tho American bank and a number of private citizens left Moscow for Petrograd on a special train the evening eve-ning of August 26. American Interests Inter-ests previously had been turned over to tho Swedish consulate. With the Americans were the Italian Ital-ian mission, a party of 71 persons. This news transmitted today by the Swedish government, did not confirm recent reports from Gorman sources 1 that thu last of the Entente represen- j tatlves had lett Moscow and it was! thought here that the British and French officers probably arc still detained. de-tained. I In 'belated dispatches received today from Mr. Poole himself, the last dated August 26. the consul-general reiterates reiter-ates his intention of remaining in Moscow Mos-cow to give moral support to his British Bri-tish and French colleagues held by tho Bolshevik gqvernmcnt. The Swedish government also advised ad-vised that passports of the Americans and others who left Moscow had been advised to leave Russia and that permission per-mission of tho Finnish government to pass through Finland would he awaited await-ed at Petrograd This permission already al-ready has been authorized. i nn |