Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-27
BRITISH BEGIN
COUNTERATTACK
LONDON, March 27.-The
British delivered a counter attack
today between the angle of the
Ancre and the Sonme and recap
tured Morlancourt and chipilly.
the war of6eaa announced this
evening.
ODESSA RECAPTURED
BY SOVIET TROOPS
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON. March 27.-Odessa has been
recaptured by the soviet and Ukrainian
troops after bloody battle, in which
naval forces took part. according to
a Moscow dispatch from the semi
official Russian news agency.
By the Associated Press
MOSCOW, March "a (Sunday).-Of-
fetal reports say that Nikolayev,
Kherzon and Znamenka, all southern
Ckrainian cities, have been recaptured
from the Austrians by red guards and
ARMED civilians (The recapture of
Kherzon and Nikolayev was reported
in press dispatches yesterday from
Petrograd) The population of kherzon
organized and expelled the invaders.
A heavy artillery bombardment is re-
ported in connection with the capture
of Nikoiayev.
in tha peace treaty with Ukraine are
creating disorder there. The latest of
these demands is that Ukraine surrender
IS per cent of its grain and its sugar
from ia refineries. except that needed
for local consumption. The Ukrainian
rada has protested that this is not in
the terms of the peace treaty.
The German commander at Kiev re-
quested the bankers there to float loan
of 10000, 900 rubles on security provided
bankers declined to do so.
German troops are constantly moving
eastward through Kiev. Breadstuffs are
being exported from Kiev in large guam
titles, and consequently there is an acute
shortage. The municipal officials clashed
with the rada authorities over the food
situation and the mayor resigned.
Peasants at Newell fifty-four miles
German food requisftions. They are re-
ported to have killed eighty German SOL
diers.
announced that Odessa had been en-
tered by German troops. The pre-.
liminary peace treaty between Ru-
mania and the central powers con-
tanned a provision engaging Rumania
to support the transport of troops of
the central powers through Moldavia
and Bessarabia to Odessa.
Semi-ofhcial announcement was then
made that Germany had obtained a
direct route by way Of Russia to Persia
and Afghanistan.
Odessa is the most important seaport
of southern Russia and the fourth city
of Russia in size. Its population is
about 100000.
By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Saturday. March 23.-Ac-
cording TO an unconfirmed report, the
Ukrainian bourgeois rada (Which was
responsible for the peace treaty with
Russia and is opposed by the bolshevik
rada) has officially requested Germany
to stop the advance of her troops in
UkraineAas it tended to shake the con-
fidence OF the population in the goverp-
ment. Germany is said to have replied
she was invited to restore order and
could not leave until this was accom-
plished.
Col. Mouravieff has resigned as COM
mander of the bolshevfk troops in
Ukraine and iDaow in Moscow. He has
been succeeded by an officer named
Egorof. The Austro-German forces ad-
vancing in Ukraine are moving from
both the northwest and southwest
against Khartov, q transportation CEN
ter, the capture of which would isolate
the south of Russia from the north.
The Austrians have occupied Znam-l
enka, about $50 miles southwest Of
Kharkov. and Konotop, an equal dis
tance northwest Of that city.