YUDENITCH'S ADVANCE.

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

YUDENITCH'S ADVANCE.

TRIFLING CASUALTIES. FINNS MAY OFFER HELP. (Received 11.45 a.m.) LONDON. October 23. The "Daily Chronicle's" Narva correspondent states that the indications arc that Petrograd will be sternly defended. Several thousand of "Reds"' occupy the souihern seaboard of the Gulf of Finland. The evacuation of Krasnava Gorka after the guns had been disabled suggests that Kronstadt is being stubbornly disputed. The anti-Bolshevik forces along the line from Narva to Pskoff pushed eastward and north-east-ward in a series of columns. Owing to the primitive nature of the lines of communication, details of the operations arc incomplete. The ficrcr.st fighting occurred when Yamburg was captured, the tanks playing an important part. A certain amount of street lighting occurred when Gatchina was taken, but the extensive advance cost Yudenitch trifling casualties. During the nine days" advance of the north-west army. 25,000 prisoners, mostly troops, were impressed by the "Red" service, and. deserting at the first opportunity, were taken. The list also includes several thousand prisoners hot repairing the roads and railways destroyed by the retreating Bolsheviks. Helsingfors advices state that it is reported that the Finnish Governmen*-rs proposing that the Finnish army participate in the offensive against Petrograd. The Supreme Council refuses to modify the blockade of Russia, but states that ihe measures will be applied benevolently.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) —ORE TERRIBLE THAN CZAR. Tr____NlANS' FEAR OF DENIKIN (Received 1.50 p.m.! LONDON. October 23. The Ukrainian Government has appealed to "Britain to intervene with a view to arranging peace with Denikin, who they assert attacked the Ukrainians without provocation, spreading greater terror than the Czar's regime. Ukraine was always pro-AUv and'anti-Bolshevik. (A. and N.Z. Cable.) STREET FIGHTS IN PETKOGKAD ATTEMPTED RISING CRUSHED. (Received 1.15 p.m.) HELSINGFORS. October 23. Reports have been received of daylong skirmishes in the streets of Petrojrrad. Tlie Bolsheviks crushed an attempted rising. Other reports state that Bolshevik vessels on Lake Onega suddenly transferred troops from south of the lake to the north and attacked the White Russians in the rear, forcing a precipitate retreat. Owing to the dearth of fuel in Petro(rrad the local -Soviet is destroying all wooden houses and many wooden vessels and barges. Five hundred vessels have been broken up in the last few weeks. Yudenitch has sent a mission to Warsaw with a view to establishing an antiBolshevik alliance with Poland.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)