RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 October 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ENTENTE BLOCKAi/E,

• ■ GERMANY ASKED TO JOIN. > HOSTILE ACT INVOLVED. t !" By Telegraph.—Presi Ann.—Copyright. /' Paris, October 22. The Supreme Council refuses to modify the blockade of Russia, but states' jthat the measures will be applied benevolently. Received Oct. 25,1.5 a.m. Berlin, Oct. 23. •' The German Government admits hesitating to join the blockade, against Soviet; •Russia, and is waiting till the neutral! attitude ia determined. A wireless message from Moscow states i *h»t the Russian Government learns that j the Entente has invited Germany to jjohi the blockade, and warns Germany that the Russian Government would regard such participation as a deliberate '«ct of hostility.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PROTECTING PETROGRAD. TORTS GUARD THE APPROACHES. Received Oct. 25,1.20 a.m. London, Oct. 23. The correspondent of the Times, in (Explaining the delay in Yudesitch's advance, points out that a series of "forts constructed in 1915 guard tihe approaches to Petrograd and may prove a serious obstacle to Yudenitch's army.— Times Service. DEFENCE OF PETROGRAD. r UTERN BATTLE FOR KRONSTADT. London, October 22. The Narva correspondent of the Daily reports that there are indica-1 'lions that Petrograd is sternly defended by several thousand Reds, who ocBnpy the southern seaboard of the Gulf faf The evacuation of Krasnaya Gorka after the guns had been disabled suggests that the possession of Kronstadt isa being stubbornly disputed. Anti-Bolshevik forces "along the line to£ the Narva to Pskoff pushed eastward and north-eastward in a series of columns. Owing to the primitive nattne of the communications, details of the operations are incomplete. The fiercest fighting occurred when Yamfcurg was captured, tanks playing an important part. There was a pertain amount of street fighting wjien Gatchina was taken, but the extensive advance cost General Tndenitch only trifling casualties during the nine days' advance to the northwest. The armv numbers 25,000, mostly men who had been impressed into the Red service, and are now deserting at the first opportunity. It alto includes several thousand prisoners -who «re now repairing roads and railways destroyed by the retreating Bol-jjtoviks.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. HEAVY FIGHTING. EK VTT-FS SOUTH OF PETROGRAD. London, October 22. " Denikin's communique states: We defeated the enemy on the whole KamiWin front, taking 3000 prisoners. Our advance continues successfully in the KJpper Don region. The enemy in the Kieff area, after fighting, are retreating in the diction of Zhitomir and Mogillefu, A Bolshevik communique denies the fepoxted rising in Petrograd. Villagers in the Petrograd Tegion are_ hastening to defend the city. Yudenitch's bttempt to cut the communications between Petrograd and Moscow have been {definitely frustrated. nfca enemy used tanks at Krasnoye fedo and Tsarkoye Selo. The Bolshevik Government issues an optimistic Mivey of the position on all fronts, Which is prosperous except at Petrowhere the situation is anxious. Yudenitch's communique says: feasty fighting is proceeding six miles wrath of Petrograd. The Bolsheviks kro strongly resisting, and have sumjptoned reinforcements from Moscow. — !Att«N.Z. Cable Aseo. , Helsingfors, October 22. ' It Is reported that the Finnish Government is proposing that the Finnish army should participate in the offensive {gainst Petrograd. Copenhagen, October 22. Owing to the dearth of fuel in Petrograd the Loval Soviet is destroying ;all the wooden' houses, many wooden " peuels a nd barges. Five hundred vessels ha/ve been broken up during the last few weeks. „ , Helsingfors, October 22. " Reports have been received of daylong skirmishes in the streets of Petrograd. The Bolsheviks crushed the * Attempted rising. Other reports state P lhat Bolshevik vessels on lake Onega W suddenly transferred troops from the fconth shore to the north and attacked the Whites in the rear, forcing a preImitate retreat. . ' THE MUTINY AT ONEGA. >OTORY OF PLUCKY AUSTRALIAN. Received Oct. 24, 7.20 p.m. London, Oct. 22 Details of the mutiny at Onega in July, hitherto withheld for military reasons, mentions an Australian officer, who. j arriving in the lines after the mutiny bad been planned, found the sentries bitting smoking and arguing with an pfficer. \ He ordered them to stand up, and the ► 'gentries tried to arrest him, whereupon lie mi"' two of them with his revolver. H® then himself shot and bayonetted several Russian officers, and, after making a plnckjr stand, he committed suicide yrith his last bullet. A number of British officers are missing, but whether they were murdered pr are prisoners is not yet known.— •Times Service. MISSION TO POLAND. Warsaw, October 22. I'udenitch has.sent a mission with a <view of establishing an anti-Bolshevik alliance wittf Poland. | - ~~