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Show Q Q 3 V Q 5 2 B S V IH BOLSHEVIK! ROB BLACK SEA PORT I A B c& & & & & cS & ft 3 ! CflPTUREDFDDESSA FOLLOWED By GREAT LOOTING BY SOVIETS Exportation of Flax From Bol-sheviki Bol-sheviki Nation Has Begun Through Reval LETVIA EVACUATED BY FORCES OF LENINEj American Admiral in Black Sea Watching Situation There on Trade ' '' ! LONE 01, Feb. 9. Enormous Enor-mous booty was taken by ' Russian soviet troops when ' they occupied Odessa according accord-ing to a wireless message from Moscow received here. A British and Russian cruiser ! are reported to be bombard- ! Jnthe reds from the harbor. - JIEVAlT Esthonia', Feb. 9 (By tho I Associated Press.") Exports from sov- let Russia began on Sunday. They were initiated here by two carloads of. flax outward bound. j HELSINGFORS. Sunday, Feb. S Leon Trotzlty, Russian Bolshevik min-j ister of war and marine, will become ; director and high commlssione'r of ; food transportation and his duties as j minister of war will -be assumed by j General Polanoff, according toadvlces. i received here. Command of soviet forces in Siberia will be gvien to Gen-1 leral Egert. while General Ivauoff will; lead the Bolshevik troops in Turkes-t i tan. I l U. S. ADMIRAL WATCHES. j CONSTANTINOPLE, Sunday, Feb. Is. Rear Admiral Newton A. McCully, j commander of American warships in1 (American waters, is in Novorossisk. on ! the northeast coast of the Black seal 'watching the situation there relative I to the resumption of trade between al-j i lied nations and the Russian people, j While the capture of that city by the. Bolshevik! is not expected, the' people J are "said to be alarmed by the influx of refugees from the Rostov region. I I Both the Bolsheviki and their ene-J ;mles are reported to have suffered j more from typhus pi an from fighting. There are 10.000 cases of this disease' in Odessa and 1500 at Sebastopol,! J while in other cities where refugees are gathered the situation is said to be menacing. Because of lack of ship-1 ping facilities, the allies are restrict-) , ing accommodations on vessels "to ! wounded soldiers and women and chil-i ' dred. J j LETVIA EVACUATED. j LONDON. Feb. 9 Bolshevik lorces 1 'have evacuated Letvla, according to ! a statement issued at the Lettish le-l igaiioh here. I nn |