The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-05-01
TROOPS CLOSING
AROUND MUNICH
SEl-l-rsss.s Z -
Unconfirmed Report Says Red
Government Has Already
Been 0verthroWn.
RUSS SOVIET PLANS DRIVE
Against Kolchak Allied Flo.
tilla to Be Rushed
Southwark.

Amsterdam, May IAN uncon
| firmed report that the red govern !
ment of Bavaria has been overthrowp
at Munich was received here from
Berlin today.
Two Towns Captured.
copenhagen. May 1.-The ring OF
government troops is closing around
Munich. according to Berlin dis
! patches. The villages OF Schongau
and Uniting have been captured from
1.-THE soviet forces without loss. They
are about, forty miles northwest Of
the city.
To Occupy Budapest,
London, May Ian unconfirmed
report was received here today that
Finnish and anti bolshevik Russian
troops had occupied Petrograd. "A
bolshevils fact of gunboats has left
Kotlas on the Dyina river to borlf-
bard the allied positions.
The war ofice considers, N antici-
patton of the cutting off of Hungary
from Russia by the Rumanian adj
vance, that Budapest will be occu-
pied until the Hungarian situation is
stabilized.
As Soon as Ice Clears.
Archangel,, April 29.--(A.P. 1.-The
bolshevik flotilla, according to a pris-
oner captured yesterday on the Dvina,
have reached a point about hale way
between Kotlas and the allied posi-
tions south OF Bereznik.
Preparations are under way to rush.
an allied flotilla, southwark as soon
as the ice clears near Archangel.
Make Extraordinary Efforts.
Copenhagen, May 1.-The soviet
government of Russia is making ex-
traordiuafy efforts to SECURE troops
stoN1aeEsf eat l3ansAoffH ffHpsiNe agaiast the
forces DC Admiral FKols ilak, in east
ern and southeastern Russia accord
ing to a dispatch filed at Libau on
Tuesday.
Leon Trotzky. the bolshevik min
lister of war and marine, has appealed
to all organizations for swift action,
saying:
1T is necessary to defeat Kolchalt
within the shortest possible time"
1t is planned at Moscow to mobilize
ten per cent. of the members of the
professional unions and twenty per
cent of the communists.
Evacuating Petrograd.
Helsingfors, May 1.-Petrograd
is BEING evacuated by the bolshe
wiki, reports from reliable sources
say. Many of the inhabitants are
being sent away and the boIshe-
wiki government is taxing rigor-
GUS measures to prevent the news
of the happenings at Olonetz from
reaching the people.
Allies Press Reds Back.
London, May Along the Muir |
railway the boTshevik troops |
under allied pressure have withdrawn |
TO new positions thirty miles west of |
on the western bank
If Lake Omega.
A Russian wireless message report
ng the withdrawal says that the boil
sheviki have carried out an advance
1n the front south of Arcnangei and
hat on the eastern front the Sibe-
'ians have been driven BACK twenty
niles in the region east or Orenpurg.
Concerning the situation on they
Archangel front the Russian state-'
nent claims the reds have advanced
IN the left bank Of the Dvina to the
mouth of the river Shuvega, east of
he Vaga. A further advance has been
by spring floods.
In the Orenburg region the bolshe-
Xxi claim to have crossed the river
)ema and to have advanced to line
miles northeast of Buzuluk
between Orenburg and Samara) and
o have advanced fighting in the re-
ion of Buguruslan (east of Samara).