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Show : Soviet Heads Confer Powers on Provincial Officers to Carry Out iheir Decrees WARSAW, May 15. (By the Associated Press) The rout of the Tenth Bolshevik division in a battle In the region of the mouth of the Beresina river is reported in an official communique issued today. In attempting to escape across the Dnieper the remnants of the division were killed or captured. cap-tured. MOSCOW, May 12. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) A desree issued by the central executive committee, dated May 11, proclaims martial laAV in the provinces of central and northern Russia Rus-sia and Archangel. Tho provincial executive committees are given full power to protect rail-Avays, rail-Avays, military supplies, magazines and depots and to control telegraphic and telephonic communication. A tAventy-four hour work day in the -administrative offices is decreed, and means are to bo taken to stimulate tho production of Avar material. Until tho abolition of martial laAV, the executive committees are given the Bame powers as military tribunals to secure the carrying out of this program, pro-gram, including punishment for disobedience. diso-bedience. nn |