RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1919, Page 2

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

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FIGHT for petrograd. LONDON, October 25. i-piea eagle fighting continues south oi Petrograd.

The Bolsheviks, however, have regamed control of the Nikolai railway. Helsingfors reports state that Yudenitch ha* now, as a last resort, appeal- , • *’" and for assistance to sustain his attack against Petrograd. The Finnish Government ha s recommended the Legislature to agree to this, but the Socialist Party is now opposing such : proppsal.

Some Finnish airmen, have been ordered to reconnoitre Petrograd. ~B nt , tanks are being used against ie .Bolsheviks. They were dclaved ", Hamburg, owing to the collapse of the bridges there, but they now have arrived at Tsarskolicselo. There is a tank battle now developing at Tsarskohselo.

Warsaw reports state that Dcniken was swinging westward instead of north towards Moscow. He has thus occupied s ome of the Ukrainian grain districts. The latest report is that Pet■oura ha s forced Deniken back and is only 20 miles from Odessa.

TROTSKY'S LATEST MANIFESTO STOCKHOLM, October 23. ‘ M. Trotsky, the Bolshevik leader, ■ms lately issued a manifesto to the Bolshevik community generally, ; n which he says that Moscow’s position is a critical one. He also says that the Soviet troops at Petrograd have re- ' iied to Pilkovo, the extreme limit of the defences of Petrograd. Any fur ther retirements, he said would have transferred fighting to the city. Trotskj says:. Tanks are now supporting our troops, who have rallied, but the enemy is really only one march fro— Petrograd. Therefore, the work of the fortifications of the city must me continued, and the defence of the city must bo organised.

MARRIAGES OF CHIVALRY.

TAKING PUT ON RUSSIANS.

LONDON, October 14. An Englishman who lias just returned fi ora North Russia, describing ’'■ones at the final withdrawal, says f h-'t the British evacuated many persons compromised by your occupation. i’he most pathetic cases were those of unmarried women, of perhaps not un tarnished reputation, who greatly dreaded the perils following the departure of the British.

The informant continued: “One of the things to be counted to the eternal honour of our forces was the number of indisputable cases of marriage for motives of purest chivalry by British ami Allied soldiers with these lonely and unfortunate beings.”