TROTSKY ATTACKS.
BATTLE CONTINUES WITH HEAVY LOSS.
[Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Wednesday, 11.30 p.m.) ' lIELSINFORS, Feta. 17.
Trotsky, with an army of 40,000, armoured trains, aeroplanes and 100 o , un < ! launched an unexpected attack on the Marva-Pskoff-Volma fronts on tho 14th. After several hours’ stubborn fighting, the Esthonians gained the initiative. ’ The battle continues with heavy losses. The new -attack was the outcome of a secret meeting of the Petrograd Soviet, at which Irotsky announced that tho occupation of Ictro* grad by the White Guards meant the end of the Bolshevist revolution.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 14137, 20 February 1919, Page 5
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94TROTSKY ATTACKS. Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 14137, 20 February 1919, Page 5
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