GERMAN THREAT TO MOSCOW
SWEEPING MOVEMENTS EXPECTED
(Received x March 22, 11.30 a.m.)
PETROGRAD, 21st March.
In spite of the so-called peace, the Germans are speedily "advancing in south Bussia. They,occupied Nikolaieffrwithout resistance. There,are indications that the Germans to the northward have regrouped their forces, preparatory to an active policy. .
Enemy troops have reached the outskirts of Kharkoff, and other detachments are approaching the railway between Petrograd and Moscow, apparently' aiming at Moscow by sweeping movements from north and south. The Government is prepared to leave Moscow, if it is seriously threatened. It is confirmed that Entente and neutral shipping in Odessa escaped to Sevastopol, but the German -booty at Odessa is, estimated at 150 million roubles. The Russian Church has repudiated'the peace treaty.
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 70, 22 March 1918, Page 7
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