PETROGRAD.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1919, Page 5

PETROGRAD.

YUDENITCH ARRIVES. SUBURBS OCCUPIED. A BOLSHEVIK THREAT. Awl—Copyright. Received Oct. 20, 10.45 p.m. London, Oct. 20. Serai messages confirm the itstement taat Yndenitch has reached Petrograd, where he captured the Putiloff station within five miles of the centre of the city. His advanced guards have occupied the nrinubg. A Bolshevik wireless says: "If the worst comes to the worst, the city will be reduced to ruina."—Au».-NX Cable Attn. OFFICIAL REPORT OR OCCUPATION. * Received Oct 80, 7.46 p.m. Washington, Oct. 20. The State Department learns that the 4tnAtl Staff of the Finnish Army has olßciaUy reported to M. Vlborg, official ngmentativeef the North-West Government in Russia, that anti-Bolshevik forces have occupied Petrograd and Kromtadt.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. IBS CAIPTORE OF RIGA. BOW THE NAVY ASSISTED. Beeeived Oct. 21, I&2S a.m. London, Oct. 20. A telegram from Riga dated the 18th, emphasies the value of the assistance given by. four British and four Flrench ieetreyere in driving back the Germans ,ud Batatas from Riga, ft? The vessels, after a two hours bom--pardment of the left bank of the Dvina, moved up tie river. The Letts, covered »y their foe, crossed the river and took the German port, while two British ertoMeHi shelled the enemy communication! ten miles away. /The Letts are now re-establishing a bridgehead .near the positions held berate the seige.—Renter.

THE NATAL OFFENSIVE. PA4T THE ALLIES ARE PLAYING!. Helsingfors, Oct. 18. i a It it reported that the Don Cossacks in the region of Vorenich have captured 8000 Bolsheviks.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. London, Oct. 18. The naval offensive in the Baltic is ckimcd to he largely due to humanitwUa reasons. A fleet of food ships is Waiting at Reval to get through when the tr*jr is clear. Meanwhile the Allies art giving every assistance to Yudenitch, Whose force is an extraordinary mixture, front thousands of adventurers picked op in; various parts, to a splendid corps of yo*ig Russian officers who were trained in painps in England.—United Service.

TYPHUS RAGING. Omsk, Oct. 18. _ The American Red Cross Mission, working in Western Siberia, reports that there is a typhus epidemic there. There h»ve been 130,000 cases among the Silesiait troops since January, and there axe now 6000 fresh cases daily. Koltchak's reverses are attributed to lack of sanitary facilities. The disease is spreading rapidly among the civil population owing to Bolshevik refugees crowding together in the cities and living in dug-outs in the fields. The child mortality is 30 per cent.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable

GERMANS TERRORISE LITHUANIA. HORRIBLE ATROCITIES COMMITTED. Received Oct. 20, 7.10 p.m. Berlin, Oct. 19. The VorwaerU gives details of what it terms "the German mercenaries' besti«Wtie» iB Lithuania." ® lforfng an attack upon the college at Sbavlen cavalry rushed the college hall, ■ad the soldiers bayonetted and bludgeoned teachers, boys, and girls. Many were badly wounded. Tm cavalry later attacked pedestrians in the (treats. A Jewish high school was similarly attacked, and girls were trodden underfoot. Their would-be rescuers were also attacked, the cavalry riding them down. Many were injured. Tie Vorwaerts demands the punishment of the officers concerned, including tile local commandant, Von Diebitsch.— Times Service.

MANY'CONFLICTING REPORTS. JUmdon, Oct. 19. GeStfal Mangin'has been seat to the Baltic provinces to superintend Ton der Goltt's evacuation. The Exchange Telegraph correspondent at Reval reports that the fortifications of Kroostadt were captured cm Friday. Yudeniteh cut the communications between Reval and Petrograd. A message from Copenhagen to-day states that a leading Stockholm firm learns that Yudeniteh has captured Petrograd. Trotsky has sent a wireless message that Petrograd will not falL Apparently lairge Bed reinforcements from Moscow have arrived in the neighborhood of Tsarkoe Selo, which Yndenitch's right flankia approaching with a view to cutting the Nikolai railway and then dashing on Petrograd. According to Berlin advices, the Lokal Anzeiger states that Bermondt threatened to arrest the British Mission at Miteu if the bombardment of Punamunde and Bolderas was not stopped. The West Russians evacuated both, Htt are entrenched on the outskirts. Writing from Omsk, Mr. Wilton reports that the Beds are arriving at Ekaterinburg and preparing to transfer the capital from Moscow. Details of the battle on the 15th show that Koltcbak took 5000 prisoners; the remainder of the Bolsheviks fell fighting. The Commissarles treacherously attacked again after offering to make as unconditional surytgjgf. TO* annihilation of the Beds at Semirechia liberated over 9000 Cossacks, who previously cut off. The Red cojnM&Am have ben reinforced, and are now attempting a flanking movement «ft*tfc gf gurgan. A Renter's message from Helsingfora, dated the Jfth, em that the Bed flag i« agtfn tying at Bromtadt this jnw* Iflg, m 4 tie batteries at Krasnsyagorka bar« bm (helling all night. Paris, Oct-18. It ls reported ftqm Beval that Yudetnicfc tared stores at Oat-