RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3324, 31 October 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

MORE CONFLICTING MESSAGES. LONDON, Oct. 28. A Bolshevik communique states: We have started a decisive advance on the entire Petrograd front and oecupied Kl‘asnoc-sc-10 and a series of villages south-westward anfi southeas.t\vard_ We also took Clussa station, in the Luga region, and continue to advance along the Don river. ‘ COPENHAGEN, Oct. 28. There has been violent. fighting round Tsarskoe Sriiu the Reds suf--2"el‘ing (‘,l‘lOl‘lllollS§_V. it is admitted. :he Reds have 1-etakcn Tsarskoe Solo. The loss is I'egal'dml as tempm-zary. Refugees tell terrible tales of the siulation in Petmgrad, who.re even women are pal-ti<:ipa,ting in defence under the direction of Chinosc_ VBri<]ges, mines and houses have been collvert--ed into fol'trcsse.s-S. The food situation is desépm':l,t<>, and tllon;szmds are dying daily.

fP’I§'.I‘R,OGR.AD’S"FALL PREDICTED. LONDON, -Oct. 29. Reval messages states that the fall 01,‘ Pctrogracl is now rcgai-(led as inovitablc. The Bolsheviks are resisting elespera-Lely at a number of villages nar Tsarskoeselo, which they occupied on October 26th. A Nt)l'tll<West army communique n.-ports violent fighting. The situation" is advantageous. HE-LSINGSFORSV, Oct. 28. The bombardment by the El-ebus included Kronstadt and Kl-asna.ingel-kn. ‘A monitor fired fifteen-inch. shells from a. range of sixteen miles, the Bolsheviks replying with twelve-inch shells. DENIKEN RILADVANCING. Received 8.45 mm. . HELSINGFORS, Oct. 30. ' Dcnikien iS\‘T(¥-?)('dVal‘lCll’)xg‘ an MOB- - He had an inlpol."i'ant vicfoxfy and ro—(:aptu.ro«:l Orol,