PETROGRAD'S DEFENCE

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 253, 24 October 1919, Page 5

PETROGRAD'S DEFENCE

BOLSHEVIKS ANXIOUS. YUi)_N__CH E-LD UP. SIX MILES FROM CITY. ENEMY REINFORCED. @5v Cal'ic—Press Association. — Copyright.) (Received !>.45 a.m.) LONDON, October 23. General Yudcniteh's communique reports heavy fighting six miles south of Petrograd. The Bolsheviks are strongly resisting, and have summoned heavy reinforcements from Moscow. A Bolshevik communique denies the report of a rising in Petrograd, and inserts that the villagers in the region of the city arc hastening to its defence. General Yudenitchs attempt to cut the communications between Petrograd and Moscow was definitely frustrated. The enemy used tanks at Krasnoye Selo and Xsarskoye Selo. The communique includes au optimistic survey of the position on all fronts except Petrograd, where it asserts that the situation is an anxious one. General Dcnikin. Commander-in-chief of the anti-Bolshevik armies in the south, has issued a communique, in tbe course of which he asserts that he defeated the enemy along the whole Kamyshin front, on the Volga, and took three thousand prisoners. His advance in the Upper Don region continues successfully. In the Kieff region, after fierce fighting, the enemy is retreating in the direction of Zhitomir and MoghilcfT.—A. and N.Z.)