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Show ? & $ II. S. IA1ES TAKE HAND WHEN SOVIETS ENTER VLADIVOSTOK I Devil Dogs Prevent Japanese 1 From Interfering With Course of Events 'RUSSIAN REFUGEES j NOW SAFE IN JAPAN Polish Government Ready to Consider Overtures of Peace From Bolsheviki LONDON, Feb. 7. Bolshevik Bolshe-vik forces are advancing along the shore of the Black xsea twenty miles northeast of Odessa, according to a soviet government statement received re-ceived here today. In the-Caucasian the-Caucasian region, the statement state-ment says, red troops have-captured have-captured Blagdorono, fifty j miles east of Stavropol. . PTOKIO. Tuesday, Feb. 3. Russian officers who have been serving at Vladhostok under the command of .General Rozanoff. governor general of the Russian maritime province, have arrived with their families in Tsuruga i harbor on the southern coast of Japan. They were on board two Russian j warships, which entered port early today to-day and their arrival, which was unheralded, un-heralded, appears to Indicate an ex odus of Russians from the eastern j part of Siberia. I Reports received last week reflected !a serious state of affairs in Vladivostok Vladivos-tok and it appeared the Bolsheviki had assumed control of the country up to within a short distance of the city Nikolsk, -10 miles north, was in the hands of the reds at that time and 'American forces along the railroad be-1 be-1 tween that place and Vladivostok re-j re-j ported encountering units of the soviet army. A state of seige had been proclaimed pro-claimed in the city and further reinforcements rein-forcements of Japanese troops were expected. Missions Depart More recent advices stated revolutionist revolu-tionist forces "had occupied Vladivostok Vladivos-tok January 31, and that the allied missions- which had been in the city had left, going westward over the trans-Siberian railroad in the direction of Harbin. Nothing was reported as to the flight of Russian government troops or their disposition. If this should prove to be the case, the only considerable anti-Bolshevik forces In far eastern Siberia would be Japanese and Americans. I Marines Intervene LONDON, Feb. 7. American marines mar-ines at Vladivostok 'intervened when Japanese soldiers attempted to pre-jvent pre-jvent revolutionary "troops from captur-I captur-I ing General Rozanoff, Russian gov-iernor gov-iernor general when the city was taken by the reds, according to a Vladivostok Vladivos-tok dispatch to the Mad. The message, mes-sage, which was dated last Sunday. ; stated General Rozanoff finally escaped escap-ed and took refuge on a Japanese cruiser in tho harbor, j Enter by Stealth Describing the capturo of the city, ; the correspondent says the first revo-j revo-j lutionists entered by stealth, seized the street railroad and used the cars to carry them up the main street to (the house occupied by General Rozan-f Rozan-f off. When they U'led to surround the building the Japaneso blocked the way, but the officer of an American j marine detachment announced he would not permit interference. The Japanese then withdrew and all foreign for-eign forces observed a neutral attitude, subsequentlj . Poles to Consider WARSAW, Friday, Feb.6. Peace! overtures by tho soviet government of i Russia will be considered by tho Pol-! Pol-! ish government, according to a dispatch dis-patch sent to M. Tchifchorin, Bolshev-ilk Bolshev-ilk foreign minister, by Stanislaus Pat-ek, Pat-ek, Polish minister of foreign affairs, today. M. Patek's reply follows: "The Polish government acknowledges acknowl-edges the receipt of tho wireless declaration dec-laration of the government of the Russian Rus-sian soviet republic dated January 20, 1920. That declaration will bo considered con-sidered and the answer will be com-municntcd com-municntcd to the Russian soviet government." |