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Show SI Over Thousand Prison- H ers Taken and Kol- chak in Retreat. BOLSHEVIK! ADVANCE I Intend to Open Peace Pour ParSers With I Great Britain. I LONDON, Nov. 17 The capture rl of Omsk by Russian soviet forces, unofficially un-officially denied in advices from Scand l inavia yesterday, in reasserted In a Bolshevik communique received bv wireless from Moscow today. Severe street fighting preceded the capturo JM and more than 1,000 prisoners were taken by the lolsheviki, it is d - I clared The Kolchak forces retreated east-ward east-ward in disorder, says the statement, H which also claims the capture of Yan- j ovsky from the all Russian troops. j In the Baltic region, it is announced, H after the capture of Yamberg, the Bol sheviki continue to advance and arc pursuing General Yudenitch's troops. STOCKHOLM. Nov. 16 Report' or Ihe evacuation of Omsk. b Admiral .Nolehak is denied by General Wasft-knif, Wasft-knif, a.vording to the Tiduingeiw lH Helsiag-foM corrGBpynder! Admiral Kolchak. ii :s added has jus estab- II dished connection.- with ihe Cossacks LH advancing from Turkestan Moscow comfunioation aSturday stated lhat Omsk had been occupied by the Bolshevik! and that Kolchak's !fl , forces were retreating eastward. LONDON. Nov. 17. In diplomatic I circles here the view is held that it : s evident the BolsheKiki are euteitain- jl ing the neKoiiaiions at Dorpat regard- i , ; ing the exchange of prisoners with every intention of endeavoring to open (peace pour parlors with Great Britain. I The mat..- up pf the delegation accom- pan; ing M. Litvanoff, former soviet ambassador to Greal Britain, who 'heads the mission is considered signif-leant; signif-leant; as also is the tact, that tele- .ram- from the Bolshevik go eminent H expressing deepest appreciation of the arrangements made tor the conference bl couched in the most conciliatory rl terms James W O'Grady, labor member of I the house of commons, representing Great Britain has, definite instructions instruc-tions not to enter into uny pour parlcrs except with relation to prisoners. I A Dorpat dispatch Sunday night ;snid the Litvanoff delegation might o irom Dorpat to Copenhagen lo di I j cuss an exchange of prisoners and H other questions with entente reprc j isentativcs. H |