Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-17
DOLSHEV|SM LOSING
ITS GRIP IN RUSSIA
Leaders Seek Deal With Mod
erates-Reds Slay 1900 at
Ufa, Says Report
ALLIES EXECUTE Pl0TTERS

Copenhagen. April 1I.-Bolshevism
In Russia is giving way to a new
bourgeoisie. according to the director
Of the Moscow Red Cross committee.
who has arrived here. Premier Ienine
and War Minister Trotsky are trying
10 reach an understanding with the
moderate elements in Russia.
The situation in Petrograd. the di.
rector reports, has been growing worse
and numerous anti Bolshevik outbreaks
have occurred there. In February there
were SO, 900 deaths in Petrograd.
London. April II by A. PD.--
Eighteen hundred persons. including
400 women. were murdered by the B"l-
sheyiki at Ufa. according TO telegram
from Omsk received in official quarters
here.
(ITfa. one 'of the principal cities in
the Orenburg district near the Siberian
border. was taken by the Bolsheviki early
this spring. but late in March was re-
captured by forces of the Omsk all
Russian government. which have con
tinued 10 press back the Bolsheyiki in
this region. Dispatches from Omsk
dated April . and received on Tuesday
announced the massacre by the Boil
sheviki of more than 200O civilians in
and near the town of Osa, to the north
Of Ufa, in this district
Stockholm, April 11.-(By A. 2. -
The Bolsheviki are carrying out a
rapid and systematic annihiiation of all
the bourgeois elements in Riga. accord
ing TO reports from l.ibau to the
Svenska Dagbladet. The victims of the
Bolshevik terror are taken TO the
island of Hazen in the Dvina river and
are said to number 10000. including
women and children. No one is per
mitted to take food or money to the
island.
ArchangeI. April 1T.-rBy 4. P.l-
Seventeen persons have been executed
on charges of espionage. conspiracy and
treason as n result of the discovery late
IN March of an organization in Arch
| angel which planned to deliver the town
lend garrison to the Bolshevists. it is an
Aounced in the official Russian news
Paper published here.
Investigations proved that two of
fciais of the military control division
Of the military registration department.
three soldiers and four civilians belong
to fhe organization. Some Of these con
fessed Two civilians We're in custody
of bombs which were to be used when
the proposed uprising began. 1t was
also established that u noncommissioned
officer was collecting military informa
tion in Archangel to communicate with
the enemy. In addition. seven other
persons, of whom two were Red Guards.
one civilian and four soldiers. were
convicted of espionage.
The sentences We're carried out on
March "a and PC and April : and 6.
A small American scouting party Oper-
ating in front of the Allied positions
along the railway front surprised and
smbushed "a Bolsheviki patrol i'll the
forest four miles east of the railway.
wounding a number Of the enemy.
The situation during the past few
days has been generally quiet. Roads
which through the long winter were
three feet deep in snow are now GOV
cred with icy slush and are thawing so
rapidly that transportation is virtu-
ally at a standstill. Great cracks are
appearing in the ice on the Dvina and
ihaw is rapidly progressing there are
constant sounds like artillery as the
ice gives way.