DENEKIN CUTTING UP THE REDS.
OREL CAPTURED: PEOPLE WEEP FOR JOY.
lAiisfralian and N.Z. Cable Association) (Keceived Oct. 16, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 15. General Denekin reports that after many days of fighting he captured Ore!. 'Hie simple people, weeping with joy, fell on their knees with excitement, declaring. "Christ has risen." The troops wore received with enthusiasm. Several thousand prisoners were taken with many batteries and an enormous amount of booty. , General Denekin cut up the Reds in 'Ust and Medvyetskaya, flinging them back beyond Mevyfutchka and taking 1500 prisoners. Another 1100 were taken prisoner in the Upper Don district, where a bat-
tery with gunueirf was captured and turned against the Reds. ' KonovalolFs Don Cossacks, in Kri-j vuchy region, dispersed the Bolshevist j division, taking 3000 prisoners with two heavy and three smaller guns.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15041, 16 October 1919, Page 3
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