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New Zealand Times, Volume XLV, Issue 10430, 7 November 1919, Page 5

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EVENTS IN RUSSIA HAS YUDENITCH BEEN SURROUNDED? CONFLICTING REPORTS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Cop? right Australian and N.Z. Cable AssociatlonLONDON, November 4. A wireless message from Moscow claim the occupation of N.ovorossisk. The reports from Helsingfors state that Yudenitch has been forced to evacuate Luga and Gatchina, and declare that Yudenitch’s army is surrounded, hut reports from Yudenitch deny this. Deniken reports fierce fighting round Orel. • WHAT WILL FINLAND DOF LONDON, November 5. Tile “Morning Post’s’’ correspondent at Reval says that as tho result of negotiations under Aillied auspices, Finland will undertake an offensive against Petrograd. Admiral Kolchak agrees to cede FiuJand the Kola Peninsula, including the Murman coast. TROTSKY LOOKS TO ASIA. Australian and OaW© Association NEiW YORK. November 4. The Tula correspondent of the “Chicago News’’ interviewed Trotsky, who said: “Our interests are wholly European, hut if we are driven eastward we will divert our energies to Asia. If the British persist in their present policy with respect to Russia, we may show we can learn Hindu as easily as European tongues." Tho proletariat dictatorship was temporary, and as soon as the conflict was over tho freedom of the Press and other liberties would he reestablished.