THE BOLSHEVIKS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11929, 24 October 1919, Page 8

THE BOLSHEVIKS.

IHE DEFENCE OF PETROGRAD. BLOCKADE TO BE MAIN-. TAINED. United Press Association—By Electric -Telegraph—Oopj’right. Received Oct. 24, noon. London, Oct. 23, The Daily Chronicle’s Narva ■correspondent reports that there are indications that Petrograd will bo sternly defended. Several thousand Reds occupy the southern seaboard of the Gulf of Finland. The evacuation of Krasnaya Gorka after the gnus were disabled suggests the possession of Kronstadt being stubbornly disputed. The anti-Bolshevik forces along line Narva-Pskoff have pushed eastward and north-eastward in a series of columns. Owing to‘the primitive nature of communications 1 details of the operations are incom- 1 piete. The fiercest fighting occurred when Yam burg was captured, the tanks playing an important part There was a certain amount ot street fighting when Gatchina was taken, but the extensive advance cost Yudenitch trifling casualties during his nine days’ advance. The northwest army numbers 25,000, mostly men whohadbeen impressed into the R ed service and are now deserting at the first opportunity, it also includes several thousand prisoners who are now repairing roads and railways destroyed by the retreating Bolsheviks. Helsingfors, Oct. ?2. It is reported that the Finnish Government is proposing that the Finnish army participate in the offensive against Petrograd. Pans, Oct. 33 The Supreme Council refuses to modify die blockade of Russia, hut states that the measures will be applied benevolently. London. Oct. 23. The Ukraine Government has appealed to Britain 'to intervene with a view of. arranging peace with Denikeu, who unprovokedly attacked the Ukrainians, spreading greater terror than existed under the Czar’s regime. The Ukraine was always pro-Ally and anti-Bolshevik. Received Oct. 24, 1.80 p.m. Warsaw, Oct. 22. Yudenitch has sent a mission with a view to establishing an,autiEolshevik alliance with Poland. Helsingfors, Oct, 22. Reports have been received ot daylong skirmishes in the streets of Petrograd. The Bolsheviks crushed an attempted rising. Other reports state that the Bolshevik vessels on Lake Onega suddenly transferred troops from the south shore to the north and attacked the Whites in the rear, forcing, their precipitate retreat. Copenhagen, Oct. 22. Owing to the dearth of fuel in Petrograd the local Soviet is destroying all wooden houses and many wooden vessels and barges. Five hundred vessels have been broken up during the last few weeks.