16 MARCH 1918, Page 2

The Bolshevik Council last Saturday left Petrograd for Moscow, which

becomes the Russian capital once more. The Bolsheviks have-undone in a few months all that Peter the Great and his successors had accomplished in two centuries. M. Trotsky, who has resigned his control of foreign policy, has been left in charge of Petrograd, in.order, no doubt, to hand over the city to the Germans when they ask for it. Enemy troops on Wednesday occupied Odessa. Some Czech refugees from Austria had the courage to resist their advance, but the Bolsheviks were otherwise engaged.