CAMPAIGN'S PROGRESS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XL, Issue 9147, 1 November 1919, Page 5

CAMPAIGN'S PROGRESS.

LONDON, October 29. ••■ The situation on the Petrograd front ■is still, hinst uncertain,', and .that the Boisheviki are fighting desperately and scoring some successes .appears from OBsthonian'-. communiques . on October 27, reporting... fierce fighting in the Gulf of -Finland as the result of Bolshevik attacks in great force, and also in the Pskoff sector, where a violent artillery action -is- reported. Yudeuitch in a communique states that a Bolshevik attack on Fosna, in the sector between Petrograd and Moscow, was repulsed, but admits that" the Boisheviki captured . Bobsha in their Advance against Tsarskoe Selo. General Y.udenitch declares that the situ-v at-ion is not clear, but the 'Boisheviki are 'fighting'- furiously and concentrating' picked troops from Moscow.' Yudeuitch says the tanks' are most valuable, but the' number.he'lias is insufficient.

'A Royal message, dated October '28, i-.eports:that the Esthohian uonimuiKl^r, Laidorier,'/.states that the Bolsheviki li'ave been vjgreatly rpihfor'cetl. Zl>%> • s*9'-. -diers from Archangel arid : t.hel-Fiwiieri frontier, )'Kj'h6 j arc well equipped' arid trained.;'.'Tjib;fight "for Petrograd will probably.-'b'eV,Very ■ long. The 'Esthoman ai-my will' .bo* thrown into .battle,., immediately ; ■Yuderiitch, Koi,t'clial| r - or Deniken. recognises the Esthohiari lUtjpublic. ....< •....' The "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent, writing from Gatchina,. .says that a hundred thousand Bolshevist are .massed between the White Russians and Petrograd..,