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Show Finns Drive Out Bolsheviki and Capture a Town MkL.i5i.Mif Kis. April '. (correspondence (corres-pondence of the Associated Press) A national assembly has "been formed at Olonetz. 110 miles northeast of Petro-grad, Petro-grad, where the Finns have driven : out the Bolsheviki. Tbe town was 'captured, nccordlng to reports, by vol-.unteer vol-.unteer troops. The capture of Olonetz by forces op-I op-I posed to the Bolshevik may have an important effect on tho Allied campaign cam-paign along the Murmansk railroad! and through it ou the situation In the j Archangel region For several weeks j Allied forces commanded by General, iMaynard have been pressing south-! 'ward along the Murmansk railway and; were last reported approaching Po- i vlenetz, at the northern end of Lakej Onega. From Povienetz, the Murmansk Mur-mansk railway swings westward and' before it reaches the southeastern edgt of Lake Iidoga it comes within a few miles of Olonetz. A Stockholm report Sunday said that a revolt hud broken out in Olonetz and it is possible that Bolshevik forces j lacing General Maynard may be cut off after the ant i-Bolshevik advance' from Olonetz. n the Murmansk rail-j way line can be cleared as far south j as Olonetz, the Allies will be in a position po-sition to outtlank the Bolsheviki south I of Archangel, who also are threatened 1 by the Siberian advance in t'le Viatkaj region. i rin |