IS IT A DISASTER?

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 33, 3 November 1919, Page 5

IS IT A DISASTER?

YUDENITCH'S FAILURE AT PETRGGRAD ADVENT OF SNOW A SERIOUS PROBLEM CATASTROPHE FEARED By Telegraph-Press Association— Copyright London, October 29. Tho "Morning Post's" correspondent at Ilelsingfors says that", despite the boldness of Yudenitch's thrust towards Petrograd, it is now certain that the entire operation will result, in failure, and perhaps a catastrophe. Yiulcnitch has lost tho race against the coming snows, and, furthermore, lie may be driven into the heavy swamps south and south-west of Galchimi. around which fighting is now in progress. Snow is now falling, and immediately melting. It make- (he swamp* a death trap, into which the Bolsheviks are aiming to drive Yudenitch's nnny.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. AN INTERESTING SITUATION. (Roc. November 2, 5.5 p.m.) London, October 31. Tho Australian Press Association's representative learns (hat the Russian military situation is regarded as intensely interesting. The Bolsheviki havo massed a large force in Petvograd for a. counteroffensive. The bulk were put in west oi Krnsnoe Selo, and worked round it, coninolling Yudenitch's retirement to a shorter line. This effort appears to have exhausted the Bolsheviki, who have suffered severely, and it: is 'believed that tho situation is now stable. Deniken continues to press forward generally, and Poll lira's army is regarded as a dying concern, dangerous _ neither _ to Deniken nor to the Bolsheviki.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

LOSS OF INITIATIVE REPORTED. (Rec. November 2, 5.5 p.m.) Copenhagen, October 30. Yudenildi continues to retreat, and tho initiative has passed entirely into the hands of the liolsheviki.—Aus.-N.Z. Cabli Assn. LATEST NEWS SITUATION, (licc. November 2, 11.5 p.m.) London, No/ember 1. The War Office .states that the Bolshcviki. on October '29, attempted 'lo break through at [iopscha, which formed tho junction o£ Yudenitch's troops and the Esthonians. The Bolshcviki created a Rap, but a counter-attack closed the gap and fifteen hundred Bolshcviki were taken prisoner. The Bolshcviki retreated to Krasnoe Selo, There is apparently no truth in the Bolshevik statement that Yudenitch has evacuated Gatchina. Denikin's .Don army surrounded a Bolshevik division, and also captured Abramov, with nine hundred prisoners. Demkin occupied Robrov after heavy, lighting. The volunteer army is heavily engaged on .both sides of Yelets and Orel, and has taken five hundred prisoners. Denikin's troops, westward of Kiel?, forced back the Bolshcviki to tho Ippen River. Tho»on!y set-hack on tho wholo front was -at Yorcnetz, where severe fighting continues. Denikin's troops were forced back lo the Don River. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assu.

' A GREAT COSSACK LEADER J[ UIANTOPF'S RAIDS ON THE BOLSHEVIST. London, October 20. Dr. Harold Williams, writing from Roslof, gives details of an amazing raid by the Cossack leader MnmantolV behind (J|o Bolshevik linos, in which be lost four killed and twenty woulided in two months, .yet destroyed five hundred gnns at Vorotisk alone, and demobilised 100,000 Bolshevik recruits. Ma man toff mobilised the whole population of Jclds to carry half n million shells outside the town, where they were blown up. He noticed a professor. not working, and asked why. The man replied: "It. is not my am a professor/' Mumanfolf cried, ' A I»rofe.«or should give a good example. Clive him fifty lashes." After a sound thrashing, the professor went ruefully lo work. The Cossacks moved fifty miles a day, striking the most unexpected blows. The men idolised Manianloff. A typical piece of their. humour was the making of a cago in which Trotsky was to be carried when ho was. caught.—A us,NX Cable Assn. JAPANESE LOAN TO THE OMSK GOVERNMENT (Rec. November 2, 5.5 p.m.) New York, October 31. The Ncv; York "Times" Washington correspondent slates that the Slate Department lias received a report that tho Vladivostok branch of the Omsk Government Bank has secured a loan of approximately twenty million yen from a Japanese syndicate to purchase supplies. -Aus.-N.Z.' Cable Assn.