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Show AMERICANS IN I OMSK SURPRISED I Learn of Reports Circulated Abroad That City Has Been Evacuated. STORY IS UNTRUE Bolsheviki Are Two Hundred Miles From Kolchak Seat of Government. OMSK, Siberia, Tuesday, Sept 9 CM: the Associated Press.) The more ;than 30 Americans who still are in 'Omsk expressed surprise today when I they learned that reports had been widely circulated abroad that Omsk j i had been eaeuai-d. Ernest W Harris Har-ris was advised that a telegram had been received from the United states asklnc that the Harbin consulate lo cate him. it evidently being assumed that, he left his post of consu at Omsk. Tokio newspapers arriving here contained a dispatch from Peking an-nouncin an-nouncin gthat th I)olsheiki had occupied oc-cupied Omsk. Thus far the Bolsheviki Bolshe-viki have been no nearer to the seat i of tho Kochak government in Omsk than 200 miles. To-day's news Indicated a further! advance by the anti-Bolsheviki troops, west of Petropavlovsk Along the IshJni -Tiumen railway, the Siberians Siber-ians for several days gave ground but at present they are holding ten niUefl west of Ishim. The reds hae occupied occu-pied Tobolsk. The American hospital continues in, operation under Major Charles McDonald. McDon-ald. It has a Russian nursing staff in place of the American women sent out, of the region by Roland S. Morris, the American ambassador to Japan, when he was at Omsk. Reports from points eastward as far as China contain less alarmltg -wev.s than during the last three months. |