Evening star., 1918-08-17
ALLIES ON DV|NA
DRAW SOV|ETS' FIRE
First Connected Story Comes
of Movements From
ArchangeI.
RUSS TOLD OF BETRAYAL
RUSS TOLD OF BETRAYAL


AMSTERDAM. August 17-ka-
xan. nm important city in the Vol
ga region, hns been surrounded and
ix being bombarded by soviet
troops, according to . telegram
from Moscow received by way OF
Berlin. The telegram states that
. number of English and French
have been placed under arrest at
yoIOgda. Civilians between the
are. of eighteen and forty are he
ing mobiIizeA by the sOviets for the
construction of trenches.
BoIshevik troops advancing to.
ward Omega Bay have occupied
kIriIOv In the government OF Now
gorod, enst of PetroErad. II In re-
ported that violent hghtinE is pro-
ceeding ON the southern front In
the direction of Tcherknsk for
possession of the Don railway
bridge.
AMSTERDAM. August 16.-The first
connected story on the advance Of
the entente forces southwark from
northern Russia. is given
in a special dispatch to the Dussel-
dorf Nachrichten from Stockholm.
The dispatch. which is dated Au-
gust IA. says:
Last Monday 5000 entente troops.
reinforced by 5000 Russians, assem-
bled at Archangel, and the same
night the order was given to pro-
ceed southeastward. Three thousand
Russians embarked on eleven river
steamers and a number of barges
towed by tugs, the destination Of
which was Kotlas. on the Dvina
river. The remainder of the troops
marched along the Archangel-Volog-
da railway, with orders to halt at
Trusanovskaya. seventy miles south
of Archangel-
F1otilla Is Fired On.
The f1otilla was first fired upon
from both river banks near Kaktz-
kaya, and a half mile further on en-
countered barricade of sunken
boats, which impeded further prog
ress. Here the troops were compelled
to land to await fresh orders.
Nor did the land troops reach their
goal. They encountered their first re-
sistance by the soviet troops at the
point where the Log river bisects the
railway. The entente forces halted
here. This movement seemed a fe1nt,
and the main operation apparently Is
on the Dvina river.
Solombolsk, near Archangel. four
transports from which an American
contingent was transferred directly to
barges in the mouth of the river with
out touching at Archangel.
admiral Kemp (Britishl on Mon
SLAMS saying that the Moscow rulers
had betrayed Russia to the kaiser, who
now was sending troops to destroy the
liberty gained by the expenditure Of
so much blood.
23e Officers Shot.
AMSTERDAM, August 17.-Out of
1000 officers arrested at Moscow and
Petrograd because of counter revolu-
tionary tendencies. 236 have been
summarily shot, according to Moscow
advices to the Kreuz Zeitung of Berlin.
Tchaikowsky Forms Government.
LONDON. August 1s. British Wire
less Service-"The government Of
Northern Russia" has been formed
with NJ. Tchaikowsky as president and
minister OF foreign affairs. The other
members of the government include
socialists of various parties.
The political program Of the gov
ernment which has just been issued
contains the following clauses:
First the recreation of Russian
democratic power: second. the re-es-
asis Of universal suffrage; third. the
recreation Of the Russian national
army and a renewal Of the war on the
eastern front; fourth, the expulsion Of
the German invaders and other en-
emies of Russia to be carried out with
the aid of and in cooperation with
the entente allies.
Of1cials to Leave Moscow.
STOCKHOLM, August 16.-The Fin
nish news bureau at Hefsingfors says
II has received a report from Petro-
grad that measures have been taken
for the speedy transference OF the
state bank and other state depart
ments from MOSCOW. Private freight
and passenger tramc on the railways
has been suspended.
Bolshevists Arrest Socialists.
COPENHAGEN, August 16.-Forty of
the most prominent representatives. of
the Russian socialist party have been
arrested by the bolsheviki, says q
talegram to the Social Demokraten
from socialists in Russia. 1t is said
it is feared the men will be sent to
death because they had planned to
surnmon a conference of all Russian
workers.
soviets Seize q. s. Propaganda.
AMSTERDAM August 1e.-The
semi -ofiicial news agency at Vienna
saws it has received q telegram from
MOSCOW to the effect that the soviet
government has seized several hun
dredweights of American propaganda
literature 'purporting to explain
Americas policy and to assure Russia
Of Americas friendship
OTTAWA, August 1.-THE censor
announces that copies Of booklet en-
titled Russia, Poland and Ukraine .
will not be, allowed to enter Canada.
The booklet was written by DR.. Gus
xaxsK Ste1sen and 1.a, 1laked stskhA