Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1919 — FINNS IN PETROGRAD [ARTICLE]

FINNS IN PETROGRAD

ANTI-BOLBHEVIK TROOPB REPORTED IN CAPITAL. ' Lenlne's Gunboats Leave Kotlas, on the Dvina River, to Bombard Allied Positions. London, May 2.—An unconfirmed report was received here that Finnish and anti-bolshevtk Russian troops had occupied Petrograd. A bolshevik fleet of gunboats has left Kotlas on the Dvina river to bombard the allied positions. The war office considers, in anticipation of the cutting off of Hungary from Russia by the Roumanian advance, that Budapest will be occupied until the Hungarian situation is stabilized. Helsingfors, May 2.—Petrograd Is being evacuated by the bolshevik!, reports from reliable sources say. Many of the inhabitants are being sent away and the bolshevik government is taking rigorous measures to prevent the news of the happenings at Olonetz from reaching the people. Along the Murmansk railway the bolshevik troops under the allied pressure have withdrawn to new positions 30 miles west of Petrozavodsk on the western bank of Lake Onega. A Russian wireless message reporting the withdrawal, says that the bolshevik! have carried out an advance on the front south of Archangel and that on the eastern front the Siberians have been driven back 20 miles In the region east of Orenburg.