RAPIDLY REACHING A CRISIS.
GREATER PART OF RIGA IN FLAMES.
Eloc. Tel. Copyright- Culted Press Assn.. -Australian and N.Z. ''able As-ucatioii.-LONDON, Oct. 15. A Copenhagen message states that the Russian situation is reaching a crisis with unexpected rapidity. Yudenitch is fighting 20 miles west- o'f Gatchina, and is within 40 mileß of Petrograd. He hopes to enter Petrograd in threo weeks. The greater part of Riga is ,in flames. Tlie Germans are still outside the town, trying to negotiate with the Letts and Esthonians. Von der Golt„ on Monday surrendered his command to General Eberhardt. The Daily Express correspondent with General Denikin's right wing says that the whole fighting is a puzzle lo the soldiers who fought in. France. No one digs in and neither side courts encounter, but raids of mounted Cossacks are real adventures and aim at giving the population behind the Red Army n chance of rising. General Denikin's army is now being reinforced by batteries of guns manned by men drilled by British officers. Tlieir morale is immensely increased by English clothes and the pride taken in English weapons.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15041, 16 October 1919, Page 3
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183RAPIDLY REACHING A CRISIS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15041, 16 October 1919, Page 3
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