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LONDON, March 1.-The Germans have occupied Nikolayev, in addition to Odessa, according to a Reuter- dis patch from Petrograd.
 The evacuation of Petrograd has been completed. according to a Reuter- dispatch from that city, quoting an of ficial communication. None of the population will be permitted to leave the city hereafter and. in order to make certain that the order is obeyedl all passenger train service has been suspended.
 The council of commissaries of the commune of Petrograd'' which will be the official designation of Petrograd and the district surrounding 1t in fut- ure, has authorized the re-appearance of so-called bourgeoise newspapers which had been suppressed since the beginning of the German offensive.
 Occupation by the Turks of the en- tire Batum region has been confirmed.
 Latest details of the German occu- patton of Apo, Finland, state that 5000 troops with artillery came from the Aland islands in several transports preceded by an ice breaker. The Red Guards refused to surrender and the Germans bombarded the town for half an hour, forcing the Red Guards to retire. The Germans seized three Rus sian topedo boats and some mine sweepers.
 German officers have been invited to organize an army in Ukraine, 9c- cording to dispatch from the official Russian news agency, which says this information is from an official Aus trian source.
 The Reuters. Litmited correspondent at Petrograd says that strong detach- ments of the Red army on Friday night arrested a regiment of the Prio- brajinsky guards on suspicion of coun- ter revolutionary designs.
 NJ. Joffe, who was chairman of the Russian peace delegation at Brest-Lit ovsk,snas been appointed Russian an- bassador at Berlin.
 Niloo!ayev, about 40 miles north northwest of Kherson, on the Bug river has occupied an important place in the naval defenses of Russia. It is the seat of a military governor, who is commander of the Black sea fleet. The approaches to the city are strongly fortified. Its population is about 100,- 1 900.
 Nikolayev lies about 70 miles north east of Odessa and is reported to be Russia's great wheat storing center An American grain expert, who re- l turned recently rom that area Sdlu that the storehouses at Nikolayev con- tained five million bushels of wheat.
 Within recent years the imperias l government constituted Nikolayev the shipbuilding base for the Black sea fleet.
 Both Odessa and Nikolayev were taken without fighting. The fleet at Odessa had fled to Sebastopol. The l Germans immediately suppressed the soviets in both cities and seized the naval yards at Nikolayev. The German advance continues in the direction of Kherson.
 The first train direct from Berlin arrived in Odessa yesterday.
 MOSCOW, Saturday, March 16.- Colonel Henry w. Anderson, chairman of the American Red Cross commission to Rumania, and thirty members of his staff, arrived in Moscow today. With the capture of Odessa by the Germans after peace had been con- cluded with Rumanians, considerable apprehension was felt for the safety of the American Red Cross mission which had been in Rumania but which had started from Jassy for Odessa.
 At the session Friday of the all = Russian soviet congress, M. Sverdloff of the central executive committee read the message sent to the Russian
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