PETROGRAD IN TWO WEEKS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 29, 29 October 1919, Page 7

PETROGRAD IN TWO WEEKS

YUBENITCH'S ADVANCE

BRITISH MONITOR BOMBARDING KRONSTABT THE END IN SIGHT By Telegraph— Press Association— Copyright (Kec. October 28 9.45 p.m.) Paris. October 26. The "Echo de Paris" says .that General Denikin, after a two days' iSttlo, lias retaken Kiefl'.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Kec. October 2-3, 10.25 p.m.) London, October 27. General Donikin's communique slates: "Our troops advanced 160 kilometres towards .Moscow during tlie month, capturing an area of 05,000 square kilometres." —ius.-N./;. Cable Assn. (Rec. October 20, J. 15 a.m.) Helsingfors, October 26. General Yudeniteh captured in one day 12,00(1 of the enemy, which is more than his total number of bayonets. lie immediately shot twenty-seven commissaries and sent 1000 prisoners into the White Army's ranks and 8000 to work at the bases. Tlie Eeds ransacked the country during their retreat, removing food and oven furniture. Yudeniteh is compelled to feed ~10,000 children daily. Medicaments arc lacking, liourgeois women and girls in Petrograd, who are forced to entrenchments and barricades, fall exhausted and are shot. Tlie British monitor Erebus, with 15-iuch gun?, is bombnrding TCronstadt. Yudeniteh has sent a message io Helsingfors stating thnt he will be in Petrograd in a fortnight. Trotsky's lieutenants are making lavish use of the death penalty., The inhuman aspects of the crisis make it one of the saddest of recent spectacles. Both armies are largely composed of residents of Petrograd, and brothers are meeting their brothers, and lathers their sons. Yudeniteh himself cannot boast of mercifulness. The Eeds appear to revel in blood lust, for Trotsky's wireless repeatedly announces dreadful punishments. Orders captured on prisoners incito troops to flagrant terrorism.—United Service. "Tho Times" Helsiilg'fors correspondent states that Yudenitch's renewed' efforts are cheeked by persistent coun-ter-attacks. Whatever may be thought of Trotsky's desperate methods, they have brought about a better moral amongst the Reds. Ho lias disbanded the Soldiers' Committee, thus violoting the sacred principle of Sovietiism. He has also changed the commanders, produced a tanks' reserve, and enforced a twelvehour day in (ho munition factories, lie has closed the other factories io release men for the firing line. It is roporled that he is having women Iruinod for military duties, lie has already formed a women's medical corps, including stret-cher-bearers. Tlie British tanks helped Yudeniteh to got. close to Tsarskoe Helo again, but a communique iidmits that tho lied reinforcements compelled a- retreat—"Tho Times."

TERRIBLE FIGHTING CONDITIONS (Rec. October 29, 1 1.43 a.m.) London, October 20. Tho fighting south of Petrograd has become a terrible combination of bravpusillanimity, and savagery, reproducing some of tho worst features ot bitter civil war. Hatred is increasingly intense. The Rods as a whole show little taste for warfare; but tho degraded commissaries are now all-powerful and ■keep them in action.—United Service. THE ALnEDTLOCKADE (T!ee. October 29, 7.15 a.m.) Copenhagen, Octocer 2G. A message from Kiel says that tho naval authorities announce that the blockade is now moderated, and does not apply to territorial waters, enabling the resumption of the German-Baltic coastal shipping.—Renter. A DREADFUL"PICTURE fßee. October 2S, 10.15 p.m.) Copenhagen, October 26. Two officers who escaped from Kron6tadt, and another who flew from Petrograd, give terrible details of the conditions there. The whole of tho population has been mojiilisej!,. Women are digging trenches. Absolute necessities nro lacking, and even the sailors, who nro masters of Petrograd, have to content themselves with bread, herrings, and water. Others seldom see bread. The Bolshevists charged the White litissinns with firing on factories like the Koppel works, and the Baltic dockyards. They commenced house gearchings, but found few arms. Business is dead, Tho shops are closed, and cholera and typhus nre raging.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

SEMINOFF IN SIBERIA. (Uec. October 27. 7.-15 p.m.) Nsw York, October 20. The "Times" Peking correspondent' says that the movements of General SeminolY, with two thousand Cossacks,. in Manchuria, resulted in an order from the Chinese Government to Chang Tsolin, commander of - three- Eastern provinces, to disarm them. Chang Tsolin did not. obey, fearing Japanese interference. Cossacks are now moving towards Vladivostok.—Aus.-NiK. Cable Assn.