FATE OF PETROGRAD.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 October 1919, Page 5

FATE OF PETROGRAD.

EARLY CAPTURE EXPECTED. Received Oct. 19,12.25 a.m. . Helsingfors, Oct. 18. It is stated that a deputation of Petrograd workers met Yndenitch and asked him not to bombard Petrograd. They promised help against the Bolsheviks. Paris, Oct. 18. The Supreme Council has received a message that Yudenitch expects to take Petrograd in two days.—Reutar.

TROTSKY'S BOAST. | WILL NOT GIVE UP PETROGRAD. Received Oct. 20, 12.25 a.m. London, Oct. 18. A Moscow wireless message transmits Trotsky's manifesto to Soviet Russia. sians' advance. He describes Yudenitch, Balakovitch and Rodzianko as on a blooddrunken trip, and Von der Goltz is repainted into a hetman instructed by the Stock Exchange sources of all lands, and seeking, with thfe aid of Monarchist bands, to attack the Soviets from the Baltic countries. He adds: "We will not surrender Petrograd. Our troops are going to. its assistance. We must smash the skulls of Yudenitch's bands and the AngloFrench Imperialists."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Asm. BLOCKADE OF BOLSHEVIKS. « , < ALLIES' NOTE TO GERMANY AND NEUTRALS, Received Oct. 18, 5.5 p.m. London, Oct. 17. The Berliner Tageblatt of October 13 publishes the text of the Council's Note to Germany and the neutrals mentioned. It says that the enmity .of the Bolsheviks against all Government*, and their programme of international revolution constitutes a grave danger to the national security of all the Powers. It is desirable that all nations desirous of peace and the fTe-establishment of social order should unite to resist the Bolshevik Government. Therefore the Allies invited the Governments of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Finland, . Spain, Switzerland, Mexico, Chile, Argentine, Coluumbia and Venezuela to initiate' measures to prevent their subjects engaging in trade with Bolshevik Russia. In order to ensure the strictest adherence to-this policy, permission to depart or enter ports Would be refused every ship for or from Bolshevik ports. Similar regulations would be adopted in regard to all goods destined to reach Bolshevik Russia by any other route- Passports would be refused to all going or coming to Bolihevik Russia. Measures would be taken to hinder banks from granting credit to commerical undertakings in .Bolshevik Every Government will refuse I its subjects facilities for intercourse with Bolshevik Russia, postally and wirelessty. The Allies now request the German Government to take measures in conformity with the above. —Reuter.

TIGHTENING THE BLOCKADE. HELP OF GERMANY SOUGHT. Received Oct. 19, 5.5 p.m. t London, Oct. 18. ■ The Daily Express publishes the text of a secret Note addressed to Germany and published in Berlin. In this the Allies request Germany to assist in the blockade of Russia in order to combat Bolshevism.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Received Oct. 19, 5.5 p.m. Paris, Oct. 17. The German Peace Delegation at Versailles has been instructed to protest against the Entente's blockade in the Baltic on the ground that it is causing fatal economic results.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE EFFECT ON STOCKS. INFLUENCE ON FRENCH EXCHANGE. Received Oct. 19, 11.5 p.m. London, Oct. 18. Russian stocks md shares of all kinds and Government, municipal, railway, and oil stock have risen rapidly this week as a result of anti-Bolshevik successes. Investors in Britain have sunk much money in Russian mining and oil shares. Oil properties in the Caucasus have suffered little material damage. The chief need is labor and facilities for distributing oil and remitting the proceeds to Britain. French investors are the biggest holders in Russian Government securities, a thousand million of which has been in default since 1917. A resumption of interest payments on this sum would largely relieve the French exchange and thus remove a hindrance to AngloFrench trade.—AU3.-N.Z. Cable Assr.

INTELLECTUALS DROWNED. AT THE HANDS OF THE BOLSHEVIKS. Received Oct. 17, 5.5 p.m. Helsingfors, Oct. 17. It is reported that the Bolsheviks in the neighbourhood of Kronstadt drowned two thousand of the educated classes.— Aus.-NZ. Calble Assn. BOLSHEVIKS RETREATING IN SIBERIA. London, October 17. A Bolshevik message admits that a plebiscite taken in Moscow among workmen resulted in a majority voting for Admiral Koltchak. Tfce Bolheviks are retreating on the whole Siberian front—Reuter. GERMANS WITH THE RUSSIANS. Berlin, October 18. Fifteen thousand German' soldiers in the Baltic provinces have expressed their willingness to return to Germany and some have already arrived. This numfber, however, is only one-third of the Germans in the Baltic States. There are 25,000 others serving in the Russian armies.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.