RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3316, 21 October 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

PETROGR-AD’S »CAP'I‘URE.

A CONFIRMATORY MESSAGE.

LONDON, Oct. 19.

l A message fréfm. Copenhagen 'to—day ’states that .a. leading Stockholm firm ‘ learns that ’General Yudenitch captured Petrograd, 1 Helsingfors advices. dated Saturday ~. state that -‘the red flag was again flying at Kronstadt this morning‘, and the batteries at Kl'ztsnaya -Gorka. have been shelling all night. . Trotsky has hem out wireless message that Petrograd will not fall. Apparently large Red I'efilfoi'cenlents from Mnscmv have arrivozi in the neighbourhood of Tsarkoe Selo. which Yudenitch’s’s right flank is approaching with :1. View to cutting the Nicholas railway, then dashing on to Petrograd. According to: Berliii ad’vtices,i the Lokal Anzeiger states that General Bermondt threatened to.arrest the British Mission at Mitau if the bmnbai-d,_lnent of Dunamunde and Bolderas—did not cease. The West Russian :Irniy.ev:l- - both. but.arc entrenched in the cutskirt-~:.

Writing. from Omsk. Mr C. Wilson, the Times’ rovsrespondent, reports :11-at fie Reds are arriving at Ekatel-inburg and pl'epa.vlllg to ‘rransfer the ca.l)it:li fr-»n*-. Mnsemv. _

I)cl‘ail.< 0:" +3O battle on Octo‘mr 15show that I\'u':f'- hak took 5000 pl'isovl3r:. The I‘enl:uind<:‘.: of the Bolsheviks fell fighting. The Commissarics treacher-C-12s1_=.' z11ac1:(-=1 again after ml")l'ing to 1‘ inke ‘:.u-301m" '.ional snrrende'r. ‘LI-.2 ann nah!‘--n of he Reds at S-¢rn"r.-u~}lm in Western Siberia, liberates over 30,000 Cossacks, who were previously ‘cut off. The Red confmanders have been reinforced, and are now attempting u-flanking movement south of Kurgan_ ' General Mangin has been sent to .the Baltic. provinces to_sl3porintend Von der Goltzfs ev.ac.uation. _ ‘ A

The Exchange‘ Telcgraph’s c.orl'e.s--pendent at_ReVal r'eportsV fliat the fortifications of Kl'onsta_d.t we're captul'o‘d on Friday. General Yudehi-tch cut‘ "the lines of comnmnicatioxi between R_eVa‘] and ‘Pet.rogr_ad the same day.