Evening star., 1918-08-13
HUNS PREPARING
TOTAKE EPETROGRAD
Are Menaced by Allied Ad-
vance in West and by Rus
sian Resistance.
KAISER'S TROUBLES GROW

mans intend to occupy Petrograds
dispatch to the C0penhaEen Po-
htiken from Helsingfors declares,
the Exchange Telegraph corre-
spondent In the Danish capital re-
ports. Troops for this purpose are
already being brought toward the
objective. 1t is added.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. August 13.-Germany, In
west she has yet known. is menaced in
the east not only by the advance Of
the allied expeditions. but by the per-
petually growing movement Of unor-
ganized resistance to her occupation.
says the Daily Telegraph in comment
ing on the situation in Russia
There is not a part of Russia where
German troops are stationed where
the commanders have not all they can
do to hold the people down by force
of arms. The task. the newspaper
adds. will soon call. il it has not al
ready. for strong reinforcements apart
from the question of meeting the al
lied expeditions.
The Telegraph continues: IF the
enemy is in peril in the west he is
little better OF in the east and Prus-
sianism is reaping wherever 1t has
sown."
Evidence Of Unpopularity.
The removal of the German embassy
to Pskov. says the Daily Chronicle,
is an admission BY the Germans OF
their intense unpopularity in Russia.
The Daily News says that the sa-
lient fact OF the political situation In
to provide a rallying pottn for the ma
ton. 1t believes that the fall OF
Lenine and Trotzky would be the first
step toward a solution OF the problem.
for it would mean the emergence in
Russia of forces disposed to stand for
national self-assertion as against ex-
ploitation by Germany.
German Writer Attacks British.
AMSTERDAM, August 12.-Whole-
sale arrests of allied nationals have
been made at Moscow, according to
dispatches from that city to the Lo-
kal Anzeiger of Berlin. The news
papers correspondent writes:
LAS the British, without any decia-
ration of war, have occupied Rus
sian towns and are shooting Russian
citizens, especially members of the
soviet, British subjects and French
citizens here, with the exception oil
old people, fathers of large families
and workmen. have been arrested
and interned as hostages.
Troops Patrol Streets.
Police vigilance in the streets OF
Moscow and Petrograd has been in
tensifed, according to oMscow dis
patches to the Weser Zeitung OF
Bremen. Strong infantry and cavalry
units patrol the streets day and night.
arresting all persons unable to SHOW
ures have been taken to prevent
sudden revolution. Guns have been
placed in all the squares and machine
guns on all the corners Militia
forces in cities have been consider
ably strengthened.
cure than ever since the Lettish regi'
ments, the strongest supporters Of the
bolsheviki, have been sent to fight tht
Czecho-Slovaks. according to the Vor'
waerts of Berlin; The newspaper add:
reliable guards, and that the bolshevil
government appears to be badly
| shaken.
Given Enthusiastic Reception.
LONDON. August 12.-British troops
which were landed at V1adivostok have
proceeded to the Usuri river front
where they were given an enthusiastic
reception by the Czecho-Slovak forces
with whom they are cooperating, ac.
cording to an official statement ISSUED
here tonight
Soviets to Report at Moscow.
AMSTERDAM. August IA dis.
patch to the WolR Bureau, the semi.
official German news agency. says tina,
M. Joffe, the Russian ambassador tc
Germany, together with several Rus.
sian delegates. has left Berlin for Mos.
COW. to rport to the soviet govern.
ment on the economic negotiations
arising from tho Brest-Litovsk peace
treaty.
Release Of Consu1s Announced.
LONDON. August 12.-Connrmatior
has been received from Stockholm by
the foreign Office of the release of Rob.
ert n. B. Lockhart. acting consul gen.
eral in Moscow, and the allied consuls
there, who had been arrested by the
bolsheviki.