At the end of last week General Maynard reported a
successful action on the Murmansk front by British, Italian, Russian, and Slovak troops, Lumbushki, whore the railway touches Lake Onega, being taken. Archangel reported many Bolshevik deserters, and the expulsion of Bolsheviks from a large area in North-East Russia. Esthonian troops were stated to be within thirty miles of Petrograd, and a Stockholm message represented the Bolshevik..leaders as admittedly relying more on propa- ganda in the Allies' ranks than on military force. German troops occupied Riga last week. Pskoff, the most important strategic point on the Esthonian front, was captured on Monday. Stockholm intimated that Lenin had made peace overtures to Admiral Koltchak, but had received no reply. According to the special correspondent of the Times at Helsingf ors, Trotsky is razing towns and villages on his line of retreat towards Petro- grad, the fall of which is imminent. Some reports state that the city is in a state of anarchy and terrorism.
