RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3325, 1 November 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

YUDNITCH’S MOVE. | _ LONDON, Oct. 350. ! The‘“Morning Posts’ Helsingsf-.-rs? correspondent. says that General Yud-A Aenitclys entire operation failed. It is feared that the retreating army may ‘jbe driven into a swamp and south of Gatchina, which is apparently the Bolslrevik plan. _ It is now certain that linland will not assist «General Yurlenitch, fearing that the triumph of Admiral Koltchak, General Denikin, and General ‘.(udenrltch would threaten l<‘inlaud.‘3 national existence. WARNING TO THE SOVIETS. ' -—-- i ‘ LONDON, oct. 30, In the House of Commons, Mr Cecil Harmswcrth, Parliamentary .~ UnderSecretary for Foreign Affairs, announced that the Soviet Government had been informed that Lenin and Trotsky and other persons would be held strictly personally responsible for the treatment of British prisoners and other British-erg in Russia" He also stated] that no answer had been received to the Supreme Council’s Note requesting co-operation betwee' Germany and neutral countries i_n the blockade of Russia_ _ Mr Harms-worth declared that the statement that half a million women and children were likely to die owing to the blockade was without foundation. « ' CORRESPONDENTS VERSION. . Received 9.25 a..m., - LONDON, Oct. .29. Harold Williams, writing’. from Ros=toff, gives details of an aamzing raid made by Mamontov behind the Bolshevik lines, in which he lost four killed, and twenty wounded in two months, yet destroyed five hundred guns at Voronsk alone and demoliilised a hundred thousand‘ Bolshevikg -recruits; He mobilised the whole of»-the population at Jelets to carry «half million shells: ciutside the town,.~;: where-they -were blown up, He noticed a.profes‘sor,-not-Working, ~ and asked . _him A why. The man rreplied, it is not my business. I am a pr.ofessor_ Mamontov said the professor «should give a good example and gave. ;-him fifty lashes. After the sound thrashing, the professor. went ruefully ._to‘ work. Then Cossacks moved fifty miles daily, striking most unexpected blows. Men idolise Mamontov’s official piece of humour in making a cage in which Trotsky was to be carried when caught. . The Daily Telegraph’s Helsingsfors correspondent, telegraphing on Tuesday, states itis ofiicially announced that Yudenitch:~ has recaptured Tsarkoe Selo, and is attacking Krasnaya. Gorka, in conjunction with the British fleet._-- FinJ.and has refused Yudenitch’s request for aid, but seems Willing to send troops if Yuclenitch" is willing -to make territorial and money concessions. t ' .-

YUDENITCH’S DEADLY_PERIL. - I ‘ Received 8.5 a.m. ‘ LONDON, Oct. 29. 'l‘-he Morning Postfs Helsingsfors correspondent report of Yudenitch’s thrust towards Petrograd, it is now certain the entire operation will result in failure, perhaps in catastrophe. Yudenitch has lost the race against the coming snovvs, and furthermore may be driven into the heavy swamp southward and south-eastward of Gatchina, around which fighting is now prog‘ressing_ Snow is falling, and immediately on melting it makes the swamp 2 death -trap, whither the 801sheviks are aiming to drive Yudenitch.’s army. ‘