RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 November 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ACTION BY FINNS. •OFFENSIVE AGAINST PETROGRAD. By-Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London. Nov. 1. A wireless message from Denikin states that Petloura's newspaper admits that the difficulty of officering the Ukrainian army has necessitated the handing over of the command to German officers, of whom two thousand have been incorporated.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. Holsingfors, Nov. 1. The Finnish Government has apparently decided to intervene against the Bolsheviks, and is preparing for an immediate offensive against Petrograd. General Mannerheim has telegraphed from Paris that M. Clemeneeau is willing that Finland should retain the A&land Isles in return for her intervention. A reconstruction of the Cabinet, in view of the change policy, is expected. The transport of troops and munitions towards the frontier has already begun. General Mangin has arrived at Hel-singfors.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

London, Nov. 1. r Yudenitch has recaptured Ropsche and re-established connection between the Esthonian right and the Russian left. The Bolshevik concentration southward and south-westward of Petrograd continues. Trotsky declares that the city is out of danger. A Bolshevik communique states:— "Already we have driven off the enemy ships in the Gulf of Finland. We have recaptured Luga, after fierce fighting." London, Nov. 1. Denildn's wireless states that the Bolshevik committee at Voronezh was responsible for terrible atrocities. Victims had tlieir eyes picked out, arms and legs twisted in the sockets, ears cut off, nails pulled out, foreheads branded with hot iron; thev were submerged in boiling water and had molten tin poured down their throats.