The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-07-01
PART OF RUSSIAN
FLEET TURNED
OVER TO ENEMY
BOLSHEVIKI SURRENDERS
WAR SHIPS OF BLACK
SEA SQUADRON.
SOME WERE BLOWN UP
Germany Promised" to Return All
the Vessels After the Conclusion
OF Peace, Russian Foreign Min
lister Explains.
(By The Associated Press. J


London, July 1.-The bolshevik
government has surrendered to Ger
many a part OF the Russian Black
Sea fleet which fled to Novo Ros-
sysk when the Germans captured
Sebastopol, says an official telegram
from Moscow. The other ships OF
the fleet were blown up by their
crews. Germany has promised not
to use the warships and to return
them to Russia after the conclusion
or peace, Foreign Minister Tchit-
cherin in an announcement says:
1t was only on condition that
such an agreement be concluded
that Germany stopped the advance
OF the German troops toward Novo
Rossysk."
Moscow, Sunday, June 23.-(By
The Associated Press 1.-The recent
report of the capture of Irkutsk, 81
IBERIA, by German war prisoners is
without foundation, according to
dispatch received here from Vladi-
vostok. Irkutsk is in direct COM
munication with Vladivostok, the
message states.
There is no rising in progress
among the war prisoners in Siberia
and the position of the societs is
stable, the message declares.
Moscow, June 23.--(By The AS
sociated Press. "A state of war
has been proclaimed in the province
OF Archangel.
The province of Archangel ex-
tends from the Ural mountains
westward to Finland, a distance OF
approximately 900 miles, and from
Nologda and Olonels on the south to
the Arctic ocean, about 400 miles.
1t contains the ports of Archangel
and Mourmansk, the only Russian
outlets TO the Arctic ocean. 1t was
on the Mourmansk coast that
French and British troops were
landed some time ago to protest the
Mourmansk railway, over which al
lied supplies had been going into
Russia.
Washington, July lin the Rus
sian province of Aarchangel, where
a state of war has been proclaimed,
according to a dispatch from Mos
COW, lies the Arctic port of Kola.
with its railroad guarded by allied
and American naval forces. Conse-
quently, the greatest interest at
taches to any developments there
and officials and diplomats are won
dering what the declaration of a
state of war may mean.
Vast U. S. Supplies.
All recent reports to the state de
partments have represented condi-
tions to be quiet around Archangel
and along the railroad southwark
from Kola, and it is hoped that the
latest development may mean no
more than that the bolshevik gov
ernment has proclaimed martial law
to maintain order.
At Kola and for miles inland |
along the railroad there are acres N |
military supplies, running all the
way from locomotives and cannon !
TO clothing and provisions, scattered
over the country. Most of these
were shipped from America and
England when the Russian armies
still were fighting the Germans, and
were short of supplies.
The goods accumulated while the
railroad from the Arctic port was
being rushed to completion as a mill
tary measure. When the line was
opened, but before any large guam
tity of supplies could be shipped
the Brest-Ditovsk peace
was declared and the movement
ceased.
Wanted by Germans.
1t is known that the Germans
have been exceedingly anxious TO
obtain possession of these supplies,
or if they could not do so directly,
to have them taken over by the
Finnish White Guards. who have
been acting under German prompt
ing.
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