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The situation in Russia, Including
Siberia, also is improving, for the
forces opposed to the bolshevlkl and
the Germans are growing stronger and
amalgamating. The possibility of es
tablishing an eastern front that will
seriously worry the Huns Is being con
sidered, especially since the "supreme
government of the northern territory,"
embracing half a dozen districts, has
declared Itself opposed to the Germans
and ready to fight them. Possession
of the port of Archangel and the Mur
man coast gives the allies an Inlet
for troops to help this movement. That
Germany recognizes the menace is evi
dent from the facts that she Is sending
more soldiers from the west front to
Russia, and has ordered Finland to
prepare to make wár on the people of
Murmansk and the allies there. Dis
patches from Helslngfors declared the
Germans Intend to occupy Petrqgrad,
though what they would gain by pos
session of that hunger-stricken city Is
not apparent. Lenlne and Trotsky
nnd their soviet government were re
ported to have fled from Moscow to
Kronstadt, the great fortress near
Petrograd, and to have placed the exe
cution of power In the hands of a tri
umvirate composed of Lenine, Trotsky
and Zlnovleff. Lenlne also Issued a
manifesto urging the pitiless annihila
tion of all counter-revolutionaries.
Moscow being admittedly in the con
trol of the counter-revolutionists, the
German embassy also fled from that
city to Pskov, which greatly perturbed
the German press.
