New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
bolsheviki Moving Toward
German Frontier to Aid in
Overthrow of Government
b erlin Sends Troops
Clashes i'll Ukraine Are Re.
ported; Situation in the
Baltic Provinces Serious

LONDON, Dec. 21.-German reports
received through Copenhagen say that
bolsheviki troops are advancing toward
the German frontier, where they plan
to join German sympathizers. The
German armies in ussia, saws the Co.
penhagen dispatch. are still retiring
and are leaving all their war material
IN the hands of Bolshevik War Minister
Trotzky.
1T is suspected in some quarters here
mat the Bolsheviki have undertaken
thelr advance to the German frontier
Tor Tor the purpose of combining with the
opartaclans, and possibly aiding them
IN overthrowing the present German
government. That some such fear as
TINS IS entertained in Berlin is indi-
Gated by dispatch from the German
capital to-day, saying that fresh Ger
man troops from Friedrichstadt, on the
Donna River, have been sent against
the Bolsheviki forces advancing on
Mitau. about thirty miles southwest Of
Riga. The report of this movement
is given by the Berlin "Lokal An
zeiger."
German Troops Disarmed
German troops, this paper asserts,
have been disarmed by the Bolsheviki
IN Livonia, and their weapons confis-
Gated. The inhabitants of many Livon-
ian towns are fleeing toward Rega.
Clashes between Bolshevik and Ger
man troops in the Ukraine and on the
borders of the Ukraine are reported in
dispatch from Amsterdam. The Ger
mans captured eighty guns from the
Bolsheviki in a battle near Zshitomir,
eighty miles distant of Kieff.
The situation in the Baltic provinces
is growing more serious. Dispatches
from Copenhagen, quoting the "Nishti
Diem" of Riga, say that Reval, capital
of Esthonia, situated on the Gulf of
Finland, has been evacuated by the
Germans. The occupation of the city
by Bolshevik forces was prevented by
the entrance of British fleet into the
harbor.
Britans Aid Esthonians
An Amsterdam dispatch says that
the "Berlin Lokal Anzeiger" reports
that while the British fleet was bonn
harding Bolshevik forces near Reval a
Swedish fleet occupied Esthonian
tional Tidende" declare that no Brit
ish troops were landed in Reval, but
that the British supplied Esthonian
forces with arms and ammunition.
A dispatch from Copenhagen says
the "Riga Nshti Diem" reports that
AGO persons were arrested recently by
the Bolsheviki at Pskov, 160 miles
southwest of Petrograd The Bolshe-
wiki accused the prisoners of counter
revolutionary activity, and some OF
them were sentenced to death.
The men condemned to death, accord
ing to the newspaper, were compelled
to dig their own graves, and after the
execution they were buried by those
prisoners who escaped with a sentence
of many years. Imprisonment.
Neeu York Tribune
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21-The official
British denial Of the published state
ments that the Allies were sending
1einforcements to Russia confirmed the
diplomatic impression prevailing here
that no new Russian policy has been
evolved by the Allies, anc that while
in agreement among themselves as to
the fundan, entail measures which ought
to be taken, which include the sending
of strong support to the non Bolshevik
Russians, they are awaiting the de-
cision of President Wilson.
In the meantime, the dispositions
being made of units Of the British
fleet in the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea
and the Arctic Ocean, as we'll as in
tating the establishment of military
bases and the landing of soldiers and
supplies at the places where they
would be of most value in operations
intended to eradicate the Bolsheviki.