FIGHT FOR PETROGRAD

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 26, 25 October 1919, Page 7

FIGHT FOR PETROGRAD

STERN DEFENCE BY REDS EXPECTED KRONSTADT STUBBORNLY DISPUTED By ToleErftph-Presß Association-Copyrlihl London, October 22. Tlio ".Daily Chronicle's , ' correspondent at Narvu slates that thoro aro indications that Polrog'rnd -will bo sternly defended. .Several thousands of Red troops occupy tho southern seaboard of tho Gulf of .Finland. Tho evacuation of Krasnaya Gork.i, after tho guns had been disabled. sugsesUs that ICrunstadt is being stubbornly disputed. Tho anti-Bolshevik forces along the line from.Narva to Pskoff havo pushed eastward'and north-eastward in a series of columns. .Owing to the primitive nature of the communications detuils of operations are incomplete. The fiercest fighting occurred when Yamburg was captured. The tanks aro playing an important part. .There was a certain amount of streot fighting when Gatchina was taken, but tho 'extensive advance cost Ymlenitch trifling casualties during nin6 days' advance.

Tho North-west Army of 25,000 is composed mostly of troops impressed from the Red service, the men deserting on tho iirsf, opportunity. It also includes several thousand prisoners, who are now repairing the roads anil railways destroyed by. the retreating Bolshe.viki.

Helsingfors loports that there were skirmishes -all through the day in the streets of Petxograd. .Tho Bolshcviki crushed nn attempted rising. Other reports state that Bolshevik vessels on Lake Onega -suddenly transferred troops from the south of tho lake to the north. The troops attacked the whites in the rear, forcing a precipitate retreat—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

REPORT FROM YUDENITCH. London, October 22. A communique from Yudenitch reports hea.vy fipht.inpr six miles south of Petrograd. The Bolshevists are strongly repistiriff. and !iavo summoned reinforcements from Moscow—Aus.-N.Z, . Cablo Assn. PETROGRAD GUARDED BY FORTS SERIOUS OBSTACLE TO YUDENITCH'S ARMY. (Ree. October 20, 1.20 p.m.) ' London, October 23. "The Times" correspondent, in explaining the do'ay in' Yudeuitch's advance, points out that a series of forts constructed in 1915 guards the approaches to Petrograd, and may prove a serious obslable to Yudeuitch's army.—"The Timeti." ANTI-BOLSHEVIK* ALLIANCE ; YUDENITCH. SENDS MISSION TO POLAND. I , Warsaw, October 22. Yudenitch lias sent a mission with a view to establishing an Anti-Bolshevik Alliauce with Poland.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. PARTICIPATION OP FINNISH ARMY, PROPOSED. ' Helsingfors, October 22. It is reported thai the Finnish Government is proposing that tho Finiiisn Army shall participate in tho offensive against Petrograd.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.

REPORTED RISING AT. PETROGRAD DENIED BY BOLSHEVIK COMMUNIQUE. London, October 22. A Bolshevik communique denies the reported rising in Petrograd, and says the villagers'in the "Potrogi'ad region aro hastening to defend the city. Yudeniteh's attempt to cut the communications between Petrograd and Moscow were definitely frustrated. The enemy used tanks at Krasuoe Selo and Tsarskoo Selo. Th'j Bolshevik Government has issued an optimistic survey of the position, which on all tho fronts is prosperous, except in Petrograd, where the situation is anxious.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. HOUSES DESTROYED FOR FUEL. Copenhagen, October 22. Owing to the dearth of fuel in Petrograd the local Soviet is destroying all wooden houses and many wooden vessels and barges. . Five hundred vessels have been broken up during the last few weeks.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. denikinYTdvance ENEMY HEAVILY DEFEATED. London, October 22. . General Denikin, in a communique, reports that he lins defeated the enemy on tho whole of the Kamyshin front, and has taken 3000 prisoners. His advance continues to be successful in tho Upper Don region. Tne enemy in the Kieif area, after fierce • fighting, is retreating in tne direction of Zhitomir and Mogilleff— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

UKRAINE SEEKING PEACE l.ondon, October 23. The Ukraine Government 1 has appealed -to'Britain'to intervene with a view to arranging peace 'with Dcnikin, who, the Government, states, unproyokedly attacked the Ukrainians., spreading greater terror than during the Tsar's regime. The Ukraine had always been in favour of the Allies and against the.Bolslieviki. -Aus.-N.Z. Cable'Assn. BLOCKADE jOF RUSSIA Paris, October 22. The Supreme Council refuses to modify (he blockade of Russia-, and states that the measures-will be applied benevolent-ly.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. > GERMANY INVITED TO JOIN . BLOCKADE. (Rec. October 25, l.fi a.m.) Berlin, October 23. The Gorman Government admits - Hint it is hesitating to join the blockade against. Soviet Russia* and is waiting till the neutral attitude is determined. A wiro'.ces manage from Moscow states that tho Russian Government learns that, tho Entente has invited-.fiewna.iiy to join t.lio blockade, and .warns Germany that the Russian Government, would Tepid such participation as a deliberate act of hostility—Aus.-N.Z! Cable Assn.

THE MUTINY AT ONEGA AUSTRALIAN 1 OFFICER'S PLUCKY STAND. (Rec. October 21, 7.10 p.m.) London, October 22. Details of. tlio mutiny at Onega. in July, hitherto withheld for military reasons,' mention . thalt an Australian officer'who arrircd in the lines after tlio mutiny was plaimod found the sentries sittinjj smoking and arguing. The officer ordered them to stand up. The sentries tried lo arrest; liim. whereupon ho killed hvo of ihem villi his revolver. He then himself shot: and bayoneted fiirvoral lviis«ian officers, and after making a pluekv .sland commitled suicide with his Inst' bullet.. A number of British officers are missing, but. whether they were murdered or aro prisoners is not yet known.—'"Tim Times."