New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
Cruisers Assisted, Bolshe-
Wiki in the Capture of
Odessa
Fighters Called For
War Office Official Appeals
for Military and Trade
Discipline
Isy Tho Associated Prcss)

dispatches published here confirm the
report that Odessa has been recapturcd
by the Bolshovik troops.
Odessa was first bombarded by cruis-
ers which came from Sebastopol
There was desperate lighting for
three days in the vicinity of Sebasto-
pol, between the Bolsheviki and Austro-
German detachments.
The latest war bulletins report Aus
tro-Germans to be within forty miles
OF Yckaterinoslav, a commercial and
industrial. town about 250 miles rcrth-
east o. Odessa.
tRg The Associated r1e~sl
MOSCOW, Wednesday. March 27.-
More than five hundred Germans occu-
pyiNg kherson were defeated, many
were killed and captured and the rest
fed, leaving two armored cars. when
the city was recaptured by the Bolshe
Vik forces
All Russian troops have been re-
moved from Persia. according to a re-
committee TO the Department of For
cgn Affairs. All supplies there are
being removed to Baku.
Russians must take a rifle in one
hand and hammer in the other, sub
nit to the most strict discipline and
work sixteen hours a day if they hope
20 combat the menace threatening
them" declared NJ. Podvoisky. Assist
ant Minister of War. in an address
advocating the immediate creation Of
u regular army. He ridiculed the idea
q guerrilla warfare and said such an
effort would only be d "heabite.
Russia, he said, wants dictators and
business organization, instead of pious
intentions. NJ. Podvoisky urged COM
pulsory training and commercial as
we'll as military mobilization.
The Bolshcvik "Pravda" says that re
cruiting for the Red Army is unsuc-
cessful so far because of the opposi-
tion of the bourgeois, who must be
removed by merciless terror if neces-
sary."
The situation in the Ukraine presents
one OF the most intricate questions
arising from the cessation of war in
the East. Dissatisfaction with the
peace terms is widespread among the
peasants and workmen, and is. being
aggravated by German acquisitions of
grain, sugar and other products. The
Central Rada, the chief Legislative body
Of Ukraine, passed vote of want of
confidence in the Ukralnlan government
after the signing of the peace treaty
The high-handed treatment of l Ikraln-
lans by the Germans, leading to con-
tiict with the German commandent at
Kiev, resulted in the resignation of Nj.
PetluIa, n member of the government,
and eventually may lead to an open
break.
Information from authoritative Tx
rainian sources gives the impression
that the Rada is seeking to come to
terms with the Bolshevik government
on tho basis of federated alliance
with the Russian Republic, but thus
far no negotiations have been inaugu
rated.
An American, who escaped from
Minsk two days after the Germans oc-
cupied the city, has reached Moscow
and reports the local population there
much lncensed against the invaders.
The more than two hundred miles be
tween MinsN and Moscow were covered
by the American by walking and rid
ing III sleighs.
Polish troops, he says, were dis
gusted when. two days after the occu-
patton, the Germans seized their arm
ored motor cars and announced the
Germans alone would police the city