ATTACK ON THE RED CITADEL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 291, 4 September 1919, Page 5

ATTACK ON THE RED CITADEL

PROCLAMATION BY GENERAL GOUGH PEOPLE OF PETROGRAD WARNED HEAVY BOLSHEVIK REVERSE By Telegraph—Press ABsociation-Copyright London, September 2. It is alleged that General Gough, commanding tho forces in Russia, has notified Potrograd that an attack on the city is pending.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Berlin, September 2. Gonoral Gough has issued a proclamation to tho inhabitants of Potrograd that an Allied attack is imminent.—Renter. NAVAL FORCES TO CO-OPERATE. (Rec. September 4, 0.20 a.m.) Copenhagen, September 2. ■ It is announced thai; Admiral Cowan will confer with General Gough at Helsjngfors relative to the combined plans against; Pefrograd.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BOLSHEVIKI - CADGHT -IN A TRAP SURROUNDED BY THE LITHUANIANS. London, September 3. Tho Lithuanians have surrounded the Bolslieviki Lithuanian front, and heavy captures are expected.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ROUTED AND SUING FOR PEACE. Copenhagen, September 2.' Tho Bolshcviki on the Lithuanian front liavo been routed, and are now suing for peace. Tho Lithuanians are advancing from • Vilna, and are nearing tho Polish frontier—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BOLSHEVIK SUCCESSES CLAIMED London, September 2. Tho Bolslieviki claim the ■ capture of the outer fortifications of Dvinsk, and tho capture of four armoured 'trains, equipped with giins and machine-guns, between Scbridkovo and Zelonovskaw stations. They also claim to have reached a point 47 miles northward of Tsaritsyn. -rAus.-N.Z. Cable. Assn. ") BRITISH DESTROYER SUNK. London, September 2. A British destroyer has been sunk in the Baltic, and eight men aro ■missing.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Rec. September 4, 0.35. a.m.) London, September 2. The Admiralty announces that the British destroyer Vittoria was torpedoed and sunk in tho Baltic on August 30. Eight men were drowned.—Aus.-N.Z; Cablo Assn. REASSURINGREPORTFROH ESTHONIAN HtOflT (Rec. September 4, 1 a..m.) ' Copenhagen, September 2. ■ A .reassuring Esthonian official statement reports thai: the front from west of Pskoff to the Gulf of Finland is intact and now well fortified. Tho Bolshevik attacks in the last few days have failed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. GERMAN IN/rIGUeTiN THE BALTIC PROVINCES . A SERIOUS CHARGE. (Rec. September 4, 0.40 a.m.) • Paris,. September 3. The "Echo do Paris" says that' Germany has provided von der Goltz with four millions sterling for the maintenance of troops in Courland, in Russian guise.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.