Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-29
AUSTRIA DENIES
CAPTURE OF ODESSA
Ukrainian City Still Occupied
by Teuton Troops, Vienna
Declares
HO r ED OF UNREST
Anti-German Feeling Grows and
Revolt in Behalf of Revolu-
tion Advocated
Amsterdam, March 80.

Amsterdam, March 80.
Official dispatches from Vienna deny
the announcement made by the Rus
alan Government Wednesday that Odessa
had been recaptured by the Bolsheviki
after a desperate battle for three days.
The city is stll occupied by the Austro-
Germans, IL is alleged In these advices.
Petrogrsd, March 81 (delayed). -
After the Russians recaptured Odessa,
10 600 workmen in Charkoff (350 miles
northeast of odessa and $50 miles east
OF Kiefr) resolved to disregard the
soyict's order to evacuatc and decided
10 defend the city to . last They
also began removing x stores OF
metals
Re-enforcements are being rushed
from Smolensk (250 miles west of Mos
cow TO Orsha tserenty-hvc miles west
Of Smolensl). They also are being
sent from s;uma to Oroshba to check
the Ukrainan-German advance against
Charlsoff
q In addition TO the advance on Char
koff. the enemy is seeking TO cut off
the soviet forces from Poltava Cseventy-
FIVE miles west and south of Charkoff).
Red Guards tonight hurled back the
enemy forces attempting to reach Suma
After Il battle near Niznednie-Provsk
sixty versts (39.6 mles) from Ekatern-
oslav 75 miles south Of Poltava) the
soviet forces retreated. Former work.
men are organizing for the defense of
Ekaterinoslav.
The Germans have modified their de-
mands for Ukrainian supplies. NJ. CRU
shevsky has urged the members of the
Rala who resigned to return to that
body. admitting that while the peace
treaty favorS Germany, resistance will
result in wiping out Ukrainian independ-
ence.
Advicos indicate the Ukranian people
are increasingly sympathetic toward the
Russian revolution, and may rise against
both German, and the Rada.
The newspaper Den editorially urges
Russia TO return to the war BY the side
Cf tho Allies.
The 1nvestia urges warsA,'e against
Germany. but independently for the sake
Of the "sociaistic faticrland and an in
ternational Socialist revolution"
German Foreign Minister Euchlmann,
replying to a protest, declared Germany
was justified in sending armed forces
into Finland on the grounds of Amer
lean Ambassador Francis'S statement
regarding Americas readiness to assist
in regaining the status quo. in violation
Of the Brest-l.i X peace treaty.
Members of ..e Russian soviets re-
Piled that Francis merely repeated
President Wilson's message to which
ratification of the treaty furnished re-
joinder,
kuehlmann, replying to n protest
against German occupation of Odessa.
declared Odessa is in ukrainian terri
tory.
Anti-Gormanism throughout Russia is
more intense than at any time since the
beginning of the war.
Moscow reports that more than 500
Germans occupying Khersun were de-
feated, many were killed and captured
and the rest fled leaving two armored
Z cars, when the city was recaptured by
the Bolshevili forces.
The Pctrograd Council of Commits
saries has protested to the neutral
Powers over the detention of NJ.
kameneff, Bolshevk ambassador to
France. by Government forces in Fin
land. NJ. Kameneif has not been per-
mltted to telegraph his Government.
All Russian troops have been removed
from Persia, according to report from
4 the military revolutionary committee on
the Persian front to the department of
Foreign Affairs. All supplies are being
removed to Baku.