ATTACK ON PETEOGRAD

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 31, 31 October 1919, Page 7

ATTACK ON PETEOGRAD

STRONG COUNTER-MOVE BY THE REDS

HEAVY FIGHTING

BRITISH WARSHIP IN

ACTION

By Telograpli—Press Association—Copyright (Roe. OcloTier 31, 0.10 a.m.) Copenhagen, October 2U. There has been violent Ezhting round Tsaiskoo Selo, the- Reus suffering onorluously. It. is admitted that the Reds have retaken Tsarskoo Selo, but the loss is regarded as temporary. Refugees tell terrible tales of the situation in Petrograd, where even women are participating in its defence, under the direction of the Chinese. Bridges have been mined and houses have been converted into fortresses. The food situation is desperate, and thousands arc dying dnily—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Rec. October 30, 0.20 a.m.) London, October 29. A Reval message states (had the fall of Petrograd is now regarded as inevitable. The Bolsheviki are resisting desperately at a number of villages near Tsarskoo Selo, which Uicy occupied on October 20. A North-west Army communique reports violent fighting. The situation is advantageous.—Reuter. A Bolshevik communique states: "We have started a decisive advance on the entirj Petrograd front, and occupied Krasnoo Selo and a series of villains south-westward and south-eastward. \Ve also look Ghissa station, in the Lnga .region, and continue to advance along the Don river/'—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BRITISH MONITOR IN ACTION KRONSTADT BOMBARDED. (Rec. October 30, 8.35 pan.) Helsingfors, October 28. The Iwinbardment by H.M.S. Erebus included Kronstadt and Krasnayagorka. The monito" fired 15-inch shells from a range of sixteen miles, the Bolsheviki replying with 12-inch shells.—Aus.-N.Z. Cabe Assn. BRITISH OFFICER ON. TRIAL FOR WRITING TO THE PRESS. ■• (Rec. October 30, 11.30 p.m.) London, October 28. Lieut-Colonel Sherwood Kelly, at a court-martial, pleaded guilty to writing letters to the "Daily Express." He explained that he only considered that he was doing his duty to tho country in revealing tho actual facts of the North Russian campaign.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.