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Show Evacuation of Petrograd Mas Begun Population Popula-tion Fleeing Hastily. PETROGRAD, Tuesday, March 5. The Bolshevik leaders are prepared to withdraw even as far as to the Ural mountains rather than submit to the deefat of the revolution, said Leon Trotzky, Bolshevik foreign minister, in an interview today with the Associated Asso-ciated Press. LONDON, March 6. The evacuation of Petrograd has begun. Threo state ministries, according to a Reuter dispatch dis-patch from Petrograd dated Tuesday, have started to leave the capital from which the population also is fleeing hastily. The Bolshevlkl government proposes propos-es to decISfb 'MoBCOw the Russian capital cap-ital and Petrograd a free port. POWERS STILL FIGHTING. LONDON, March C An official Russian statement received here today to-day says Ensign Krylenko, tho Bolshe- , vik commander-in-chief, has sent a message to tho German and Austrian chief commanders stating that the Germans and Austrians are still fighting, fight-ing, notwithstanding the conclusion of peace. Ensign Krylenko asks whether wheth-er the Gorman high command has taken all steps necessary for cessation of hostilities. REVIEW OF RUSS SITUATION. 1 Petrograd is being evacuated by the Bolshevik government. Moscow the ancient capital, is to again become the seat of the Russiarv government whilo Petrograd is to be made a free port. The population of Petrograd is quitting quit-ting the city and various government departments are removing further inland in-land away from the German invaders. Bolshevik councils In Moscow and the provinces aro said to be more hostile to tho Germans and a separate peace than those in Petrograd. Hard Terms Resented. Previous reports that tho hard terms of the German peace treaty, which takes from Russia thousands of square miles in Europe and Asia, would not be accepted by the All-Russian Congress Con-gress of Workmen and Soldiers' delegates, dele-gates, indicating that the non-peace I oloments in the Bolshevik ranks were 1 gaining the upper hand. Evacuation of, Petrograd was mentioned as one of the i measures the war party proposed. i Downfall of Lcnine Forecast. i Refusal of the peace treaty by the congress when it meets at Moscow next week probably will cause the downfall of Lenino and" Trotzky, if they do not resign beforehand. A section sec-tion of tho Bolshevlkl is said to lean toward the Social -Revolutionists of tho left who have boen opposed to the Lenino regime and inclined to be friendly to Uie Entente Allies, although al-though favorable to an immediate general gen-eral peaco. Germany Plays Into Congress' Hands. Apparently Germany unwittingly played into tho hands of tho All-Russian Congress by granting a respite bofore the treaty should be ratified. Reports from Petrograd indicate that the congress and allied organizations will use tho intervening days in recruiting re-cruiting an army and preparing for a defense against tho Germans. American Consul Tredwcll has returned re-turned to Petrograd along with Hay-mbnd Hay-mbnd Robins, head of the permanent Red Cross mission to Russia. Removal of the government to Moscow probably will compel them to go there also. CABLE DISPATCHES RECEIVED. NEW YORK, March G. Cable dispatches dis-patches are being received by tho Associated As-sociated Press directly from its Petrograd Petro-grad offico. Although wlro communication communi-cation has beon interrupted frcquontly of late, particularly In Finland, conditions con-ditions apparently have Improved. A dispatch filed in Petrograd on Tuesday by tho chief of the Assoclatod Press' staff in Russia reached New York at 1 o'clock Wcdncsdny morning. The correspondent says that one of his assistants was at Vologda with Ambassador Francis and another had been dispatched to Moscow to the All Russian Congress of Workmen and Soldiers' deputies next week, at which tho question of peaco or war will bo decided upon. Tho correspondent also said. ho -intended to romninM-Petro-J grad unless the government should be removed to some other point, in which event ho would proceed to the new capital. |