Evening star., 1918-08-12
Soviet Government in Russia
Reported on the Verge
of Collapse.
GERMAN EMBASSY, AFRAID,
TO BE MOVED TO PSK0V
Czecho-Slovak Forces Increased to
100000 Men and Counter
Revolutions Multiply.
'Gy the Associated Press.

Gy the Associated fress-
LONDON, August 12.- Premier
Ienine and his chief assistant. Leon
Trotzky, have fed to Kronstadt. the
naval base near Petrograd, according
to a dispatch sent out by the semi
official Wolff bureau of Berlin, and
printed in Zurich newspapers. says a
Havas report from Paris.
An earlier report said Lenine and
Trotzky intended to seek refuge IN
Germany.
German Embassy to Flee.
AMSTERDAM, August 12-The po-
sition Of the soviet government In
Russia is considered very serious by
the Moscow correspondent Of the
Tageblatt Of Berlin. He announces
that the czecho-S -Slovak forces have In
creased from 1900 to 100000 and are
being reinforced by Serbians. Cos
sacks and counter revolutionists.
DR.. Helfferich. the German ambas-
sador to Russia. has Informed the so
Wet government that he will move
the embassy from Moscow to Pskov,
because he fears for the personal
safety of his staff. says an official tel
egram from Berlin. This action. 1t is
added. was decided upon because OF
a proclamation of the social revolu-
tionists that they were about to be-
gin a reign of terror In Moscow.
Pskov was selected because conditions
at Petrograd are almost as bad as az
Moscow. (P3kov Is 1S2 miles south
west of Petrograd and about 400
miles west of Moscow-)
Entente Consuls Released.
PARIS, August ia dispatch re-
ceiyed here from Stockholm says that
as a result of the efforts of Sweden's
REPRESENTATIVES in Moscow. the Brit
ish and French consuls. who were
recently arrested by order Of the boil
sheviki. have been released
Noderates Overthrow Soviets.
LONDON, August 1.-THE Petro-
grad newspaper Isvestia is quoted as
stating that at several points "tn
that part of Russia not occupied by
the enemy" counter revolutionary
methods have broken out In num-
ber of towns. The bolshevik soviets
have been overthrown in these places
Representatives of the mensheviki. or
moderates.
In the city of Kazan. the newspaper
adds, the widely known bolshevik
leader Olschinsky has been killed,
while there has been great bloodshed
among the bolsheviki in the NoVgorod
and Riazan districts.
Hands OF in Finland.
Great Britain will not support any
party In the Finnish revolution and
does not intend to assist any Rus
sian army to enter Finland or to sup
port q civil war there, the British
minister to Stockholm having handed
to the Finnish minister there q note
to that effect in reply to a note from
the Finnish government, according to
an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Copenhagen. The British note de-
clared that Great Britain had no ag-
gressive plans against Finland.
In Touch With CzechoSlovaks.
THE HAGUE, August lZ.-JapaneSe
advance troops are in touch with the
Czecho-Slovaks, says Moscow dis
patch to the Weser Zeitung Of
Bremen.
The Czech troops at Vladivostock,
who have been in touch with the
Japanese for some time, are separated
from their comrades in western Si-
IBERIA who hold the Transsiberian
railroad west of Irkutsk. If this dis
patch Is meant to refer to the Czecho-
Slovaks in western Siberia 1t is un-
doubtedly incorrect, as no advance
by the allied forces from VladivoS-
fok has been reported.
Belated Swedish Press Reports.
Swedish press reports reaching the
State Department today gave a
resume of rumors coming out Of Ger
many and Russia concerning the cha
otic situation in Russia All Of the
reports were many days old and they
made no mention of the latest devel-
opments, Indicating that the downfall
Of the bolshevik regime is imminent.
One paper announced that the boil
eheviki had sent an ultimatum to
Japan; another report said the Don
Cossacks had freed the Don region
entirely from the bolsheviki; while