Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-19
llIURbfAN FORCES
SWEEPING SOUTH
German Writer Says En-.
tente Soldiers Took
Over Railroad
ALLEGES AID NOT ASKED
Claims Allied Plan Is to Unite
Northern Russia With
Cossacks


Rear Admiral Kemp. of the British
navy. has proclaimed the occupation of
the northern section of the Murman
railroad by British. American. French
and Serbian forces. says Max Rehr-
mann, the Stockholm correspondent Of
, the Berlin. Fossische Zeitung. under date
= OF July 16. The admiral. he says. an
nounced the forces would march south
ward, in accord with the local Soviet
authorities and at the request of the
local population for help
Behrmann says that there are no
Soviet authorities in the whole Murman
territory. On the entire 4o0-mile stretch
of railroad only at half dozen main
points are there sorts of rudimentary
political orga nizations. The largest of
these Is at Alexandrovsk. comprising 400
persons, while the one at KEN has 400
members, These communities. Behrmann
declares. were. until some mouths ago.
Bolsheviki, but since they have split
into. numerous parties. whose services go
to the highest bidder.
rs Alleges Aid Not Asked
Behrmann further alleges regarding
"a request for help from the popula-
tion," that two obscure Russians. one
an ex-convict and the other n former
eendarne, have been travelling around
In the interests of the Allies. collecting
adhesions TO the requests by threats or
bribes.
I The newspaper prints an Archapgel
dispatch to the Izvestia.r of Moscow,
which mentions the arrival there of
Italian and Serbian officers and men.
who. It declares, were disarmed and ex-
PEELED by the local Sovets.
\ Zoologist named Schmidt, who has
ynf, ,n1 patr N
trip to North Russia, reports. according
to the Nordeutsche Algemeine ZeitunR.
that the British are busy making KEN
n strongly fortified place and that the
garrison Is well supplied with food from
England
Bethmann writes that the Entente
aim is to link up the Murman coast
with the Cossacks and Czech-Slovaks
operating between the Ural Mountains
ind the Volga River for which purpose
the Nologda Railway offers
excellent facilities.
,"Vologda," the correspondent contin-
ues. where four Entente representatives
are now residing. has become the most
important railway junction for the
Steps service. as It is also connected by
a branch line with Perm. where the
CO cho- -Slovak empire begins.
= A,thoug. this Steppes line has not yet
beer used for military purposes. ac-
cord e Il aeArmann' it is most useful
for pr!fS purposes. and accord
inxy he eravefY blames the Soviet Gov
erI';nent for what he terms its imprud-
ere II allowing the Entente diplomats
to e, to Noiogda. from where they are
abl. coN enient!y to extend their activi-
tic TO the Ural region and Siberia.
Urged to Resistance
r. rhmann claims TO have received a
COPY of An appeal by the Soviet OF
Petrozavohsk government of Olonets
accusing Chairman Irtshef of the MUIR
man district council of conspiracy with
the enemy and in which the local popu-
lations are urged to resist the Murman
forces to the utmost and to blow up
bridges and destroy railroads. That thu
appeal has been effective already has
been shown, says Behrmann
In the appeal, Irtshcff is further
charged with wholesale bribery OF the
local authorities at the instlsstion of
"tis Entente employers" and. according
to Behrmann, the whole line between
the Murman coast and tbs Cral district
is infested with Entente agents