YUDENITCH'S PERIL

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 251, 22 October 1919, Page 7

YUDENITCH'S PERIL

LONG COMMUNICATION LINES.; A COUUNTER-OFFENSIVE. t THREAT TO HIS REAR. FLANK SHELLED BY WARSHIPS Q i Received 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, October "21. The "Times" correspondent at. Alio, Finland, reports thai General Yudenitch ° and his stuff have arrived nt Gatehika F ' and arc expecting the fall nt" Petrograd c \ liourlv, hill llcl-ingfors reports state - that General Yudenitch i-< in imminent vv peril. He lias twelve thousand men. a little artillery and long linns of cum- li numieation I •>' protect. Trotsky is served c: by n well-known Russian (Jeneral. who n has launched a powerful offensive, threaten fnp Yndcnitelfs rear, while the Hoi- tl slievik warships arc shelling his ox- "' posed left flnnk. Ten thousand "Bed" reservists are preparing for street fight- * ing. The occupation of Kra.suov dorka V j, still delayed owing to jealousy among the Esthonians. — ("Times.'') " GERMANS IN COURLAND. r HALF CHANGE NATIONALITY. (Received 1.43 p.m. I BERLIN. October 21. General yon tier floltz, interviewed. paid that his congratulations to General Bermondt were purely personal. lie declared that Bermondt ehninpionod Federated Russia. Yon der Goltz hopcdi that the Entente would have realised the impossibility of preventing German troops becoming Russian citizens, sa half t those in Courland had done. — (Router.) r t BOLSHEVIK COUNTER-STROKE ? BREAKDOWN OF MOVEMENT. DENFKIN BACK IN KTEFF. LONDON, October 21. Tlie War Office learns that (lencral itidenitch's line on Sunday evening was .vithin eight miles of Petrograd. The ielshcvik counter-offensive has appar•ntlv broken down. General Yudenitch iniiily retaining Oatchina. The North-west Russian army yesterday occupied Pulkova, ten miles south of ~ Petrograd. ( General Vladimiroff, who recently c.-caped from Petrograd, has been appointed governor-general, in anticipation of the fall of the capital. There was a heavy artillery duel yesterday between tlie Allied fleet and the iortrcss of Krastia Jagorka, in the Gulf of Finland. Afterwards a great fire and explosions were observed. It is believed that they occurred in Oranienbaum, 25 miles west of Petrograd on the south shore of the Gulf of Finland. — (Reuter.) In a message from Riga, the Lett Premier announces that a German attack on the I'stdvinsk fortress on Sat- ' urduy night was repulsed. Several attacks near Priedrichstadt, 35 mile.s from Riga, were also repulsed. The AngloFrench fleet continues to support the Letts, inspiring the population with confidence. , It is confirnied that General Mangin, who won fame in the battles on the west front last year, has been appointed tn supervise the German evacuation of the Baltic provinces.— (A. and N.Z.) Advices from Berlin state that yon der (loltz arrived there yesterday. He recently telegraphed to Bermondt, the Ruspo-flerman leader. congratulating ' him on his successes at Riga. Semi-offi-cial statements say that the German uVivernmpnt disapproved of the teleCram. It only refrains from proceeding against yon der Goltz because he has resigned from the army. A Foreign Office communique states that the foreign legations and consulates in Petrograd. including the Swedish, were sacked by the Bolsheviks.—Reuter. Bolshevik newspapers state that a "regiment of .Testis" is operating against the Bolsheviks on the enstern front. Tt i* composed of priests, deacons, and other ccrlcsiasties, clad in robes and -tnles The regiment advances to the attark. carrying uolifted crosses and chanting prayers. This has a demoralising effect on the Red troops, who find r.o strength to resist the mystic power. The communists are sending picked troops against the regiment. Correspondents describe the important, part the priests are taking in General Denikin's operations.— ("Times.") Tt is understood that an international syndicate of British, American, and probably French bankers will extend a loan of 50.0riO.nnn dollars to the All Russian Oovernmenf nt Omsk, which will be required to deposit collateral securities.— (A. and N.Z. Tabic.)