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Show 1.800 KILLED AT UFA Bolsheviki Murder 1,400 ! Men and 400 Women. CITY NEAR BORDER Telegram From Omsk Reports Massacre 72,-000 72,-000 Civilians. I LONDON. April 17 The Bolshevfkl are carrying out a rapid and yste-jmatlc yste-jmatlc annihilation of all the bour-rgeoisg bour-rgeoisg elements in Rica, according to rerinrts from. Llbau. The iriim:; tre I taken to the island of Hasen in ihe Dfrina river and are said to number j 70,000. including women and children. West of Riga the Letts have been driven southwara to within four miles ot Mltau. West of Proskoroff. Ihe Bolsheviki have taken Yolochysk, on the former Russian-Galician frontier, and within 2: miles ot Tarnopol. In the Crimea soviet torces have crossed the salt lakes and advanced in the direction of Simferopol, the capital of ihe Crimea. LONDON, April 17 Eighteen hundred hun-dred persons, Including, 400 women, were murdered by the Bolsheviki at Ufa. according to a telegram from Omsk received in official quarters here. Ufa, one of the principal cities in ihe Orenburg district near the Siberian border, was taken by the Bolsheviki oarly this spring, but late in March was recaptured by forces of the Omsk all -Russian government which have continued to press back the Bolsheviki Bolshe-viki in this region. Dispatches from Omsk dated April 5 and received on Tuesday announced the massacre by the Bolsheviki of more than 2000 Civilians Ci-vilians in and near the town of Osa, to the north of Ufa. in this district. Bolshevik Propaganda Spreading VTEEN . w ednesdaj iprl 16. (By the Associated Press) The spread of Bolshevik propaganda westward is being be-ing greatly favored by (he laxity of frontier regulations, the least guarded being those of Poland. Trains are arriving ar-riving at Budapest and Vienna from the east carrying numbers of agents supplied with all sorts of false pa-sports and false money. The observations of the correspondent correspon-dent --how that the best guarded frontier fron-tier apparently is ihat of East Prussia, Prus-sia, where the Bolshevik are made to understand they are not w. lcome. Trains from Cracow Into German Si lesia and Bohemia, however, are filled with nondescript persons lrom Russia Rus-sia whose papers are either not examined ex-amined at all or are looked over most casually. Conditions are much the same as regards the trains entering Hungary by way of the Ukraine and East Galicia. It is even asserted that notwithstanding the Italian restrictions, restric-tions, entrance to Italy is not difficult. diffi-cult. Falsifying American Passports The falsification Of American passports pass-ports is declared to be so common that the representatives of tho American diplomatic service here attached to! the Spanish-embassy, states that ill w.Miid be advisable to increase the difficulties ol fraud b requiring the application of thumb prints to all or-iglnal or-iglnal United States passports as it Is easy, il le claimed, to substitute new photographs and imitate the signatures. |