FIGHTING IN RUSSIA.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 13903, 3 November 1919, Page 3

FIGHTING IN RUSSIA.

["By Ku-xtku' ti:i.i;i;rai'ii —Cor-, nii.in . ; (Per Press Association. ) Un.-. and N.Z. Cable Assn.i Received Xov.mhlh'i- - J. at ■'>.'> p.m. LONDON. October :U. The Australian Press Association learns thai the Russian military .situation is regarded as intcnselv interesting. The Bolsheviks massed a large fared in Petrograd for a counter offensive. The hulk of these were put in on the west of Tsarskoeselo and worked round it. compelling General Yudenitch's retirement to a shorter line. The. effort appears to have exhausted the Bolshevik;:, who suffered severely, and it is believed the situation is now stable. General Denikin continues to press forward generally, and General Petloura'.army is regarded as a dying concern, dangerous neither to General Denikin nor to the Bolsheviks.

COPENHAGEN, October .10. General Yudeniteh continues to retreat, and the initiative has passed entirely into the hands of the Bolsheviks. NEW YORK, October 1. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times states that the State Department has received a report that the Vladivostock branch of the Omsk Government hank has secured a loan of approximately 20.000.000 yen from a Japanese; syndicate to purchase supplies. Received November '2, at 11.."! p.m. LONDON, November 1. The War Office states that- the Bolsheviks •on October 29 attempted to break through at Ropseha, which forms the junction of General Yudenitch's troops with the Etshonians. The Bolsheviks created a gap. hut counter-at-tacks closed fhe gap. and IoOD Bolsheviks were taken prisoner. The Bolsheviks retreated lo Tsarskoeselo.' There is apparentlv no truth in the Bolshevik statement that General Yudeniteh has evacuated Gatchina. General Denikin's Don army has .surrounded the Bolshevik position, and also captured Abramov. with 900 prisoners. General Denikin has occupied Robrov, after heavy fighting. The volunteer iiniiv is heavilv engaged on both sides of Yelets and Orel, and has taken ."iOO prisoners. General Denikin's troops, westward of Kieff. forced back the Bolsheviks to the Ippcn River. The only setback on the whole front was at Yoronosh. where severe fighting continues. General Denikin's troops have, been forced back to ihe Don River.