RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

PEACE OFFER REJECTED. fBOCRBfiS TOWARDS PETROGRAD? •• fir Telegrtph.—Prus Assn.=<!opyrtgM, Received'Oct 16, 10.25 p.m. Copenhagen, Oot. 15. The Finnish GoTernment Has sub- * nutted to tact Diet a proposal rejecting the Russian Bolsheviks overtures for tyeace. The North West Russian Army's offensive is progressing. They hare crossed the Pskov_Petrograd railway in two places and have captnred an armoured train with large quantities of material. British warships stopped . steamers bound for Germany in the Gulf of Finland and escorted them to Eeval.—Aus.- #£. Cable Asm. TOWARDS MOSCOW. \ IMPORTANT JUNCTION CAPTUHED. i Received Oet ltf, 1035" p.m. London, Oct. 15. a War Oflke%oonuaunique states that JDenikiß, by the capture of Orel, has '* secured another important prize and . makes a further great stride towards Moscow. Orel is a valuable rail junction where the main line to Moscow and Kbartov presses the Riga-Tsaritsin railway line 4HS.-N.Z. Cable Asm. . A MOSCOW PLOT. J?ON DER GOLTZ'S OUTRAGES. Received Oct 16, 11.5 p.m. London, Oct. 15. Renter's correspondent states that ■the Bolsheviks have mobilised the popu■lation for the defence of TulaThe rapidity of. General Denikin's operations greatly alarmed the Soviet press. All former land owners and civil officials in Peirograd and Moscow are feeing registered. A plot was discovered, implicating 800 fcffieen, to seize the wireless at Moscow «nd announce the fall of the Soviet Government, and organise an armed insurrection of troops. Von der Goltz, realising that his occupation of Northern Lithuania is ending, is indulging in abominable outrages. Upon the refusal of the Lithuanians to surrender the barracks at Chavli, the Germans invaded the gymnasium and attacked, with the utmost severity, the ■ children and teachers, the soldiers using their sabres and muskets. They uhrew the teachers and children down the stairways and out of die windows, injuring forty.—AUß.-KZ. Cable Assn. YUDENITCH'S PROGRESS. Received Oct. 17. 1235 a.m. London, Oct. J«. ' Yudenitch has reached Gotchina.— {Ane-NX Cable Assn. fcETTS AND ESTHONIANS COMBINE Received Oct. 18, 1150 p.m. London, Oct. 15. *ne Daily Telegraph's Stockholm correspondent states that General Berxnondf s second attempt to negotiate peace was repudiated by the Letts, whom the Esthonians are now strongly assist-ing.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PROGRESS OP DENIKJN. WELCOMED BY THE PEOPLE. London, 0* 15. Denikin reports that, after many days' fighting, he has captured Orel. The simple people, weeping with joy, fell on «. their knees and exclaimed "Christ has risen." The troops were received with enthusiasm. Several thousand prisoners Jrere takes, with two batteries and an (enormous amount of booty. Denikin cut up the Reds in Ust Medflinging them back beyond Mevyfutchka and taking 1500 prisoners. Another 1100 prisoners were taken in the Upper Don' district, where a battery with its gunners was captured and turnled against the Reds. KonbvalofFs Don Cossacks, in the Kriyutchy region, dispersed a Bolshevik division, taking 3000 prisoners, with two heavy and three smaller guns. The Stockholm correspondent of the Echo de Paris states that Denikin has occupied the important station of Talcanhon. Jovacs, taking 9000 prisoners and 20 Helsingfors, Oct. 15. The Reds, near Gatschina, are retiring almost without resistance. Copenhagen, Oct. 14. It is reported that the Poles have attacked the Germans and captured Eovno. Paris, Oct. 15. The Supreme Council has asked the Scandanavian Powers to co-operate in blockading Soviety Russia. The Supreme Council has invited Germany to join in the blockade against Soviet Russia.—Renter. BOOTY FROM OREI* Received Oct. 16, 7.10 p.m. London, Oct. 15. fienfldn reports that he captured .several thousand prisoners, two batteries, and an enormous quantity of military booty at OreL—Renter.