RUSSIAN FIGHTING.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11930, 28 October 1919, Page 5

RUSSIAN FIGHTING.

United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Cable messages received on Monday state that .the pause in the lighting was for the purpose of bringing up supplies. The Letts, retused Bermondt’s appeal for suspension of hostilities. Eberhardt, who is Yon der Goltz’s successor, is acting even more truculently, and the facts show that the Germans are working with Bermondt, and Berlin either cannot or will not control them. In the Ukraine;German money is reaching Petloura, and many Germans are enlisting in his army. He is advancing' rapidly on Odessa. Deniken is retiring in disorder. He •was seriously wounded by a bomb in the Moscow disorders. , A bomb recently wounded Lenin, an operation saving his life. Trotsky’s entire staff was caputred at Tsarskoye-Selo, Trotsky himself jumped into a railway carriage and eventually escaped in his automobile. He was pursued, and shots were tired at the fleeing motor, but the fugitive reached Petrograd. Yndenitch’s left flank is being tired on from a distance of nine versts over the housetops by the Bolshevik dreadnought Poltava, which is on the Neva river, inside Petrograd. Tiotsky has returned to Petrograd. He is conscripting every man, even septuagenarians. . The tragic city is being ravaged by tires and disorders, Theatres are closed. The Beds are pdsting machine guns on the houses. Some of the best Bed troops have arrived from Moscow. A British .War Office communique states: General Yudetritch on Wednesday captured Pavlovsk, also Sablina, 25 miles eastward of Gatchina. Other successes eastward of the Luga and north-eastward of psboft" remove the menace to the right flank. A Bolshevik wireless message dated Friday claims that they recaptured Parlovsk, Tsarskoye-Selo, and villages .south eastward of the Luga; also mat they re-occupied Tobolsk. An unofficial Copenhagen message dated Friday reports that the attack on Petrograd has been resumed. General Yudenitch’s position has greatly improved. Heavy guns and tanks have arrived and are now in action. Y'udenitch’s army elsewhere is withiu three miles of Kolplno station, capture of which will cut the Moscow 7 railway. Bolshevik newspapers announce that Trotskv is in Petrograd repairing the defence of the city. All the theatres are closed and people are not allowed in the streets after 8 o’clock in the evening. . It is reported that destructive fires are ravaging the city. ESTHONIAN VICTORY NEAR PSKOFF. ‘ r . t '' : tMi&aSsi London, Oct. 35. Esthonian advices state that the heaviest fighting now centres on the coast, . where a fierce combat is developing before Krasnogorka. An Esthonian communique states that the Esthonians have inflicted an important defeat on Bolsheviks near Pskoff, which is now being bombarded, and is expected to tall. The Esthonian advance along the coast of the Gulf of Finland towards Krasnogorka continues successfully. London, Oct. 33. Mr Cecil Harmsworth in the House of Commons, said : There is no blockade of. Russia, but the Allies have communicated with neutrals and Germany with a view to preventing communication with the parts of Russia controlled by the Soviets, It is part of the Allied policy not to treat with the Soviets. vVe are encouraging trade with South Russia.

Major Sayer has returned from Russia. He gave Reuter an account of his investigations at Kieff, Kharkoff and elsewhere. The report siiowed that there had been wholesale murders and robberies. Torture chambers are part of the normal life of Bolshevism in Russia. Many Bolshevist torturers and murderers, men and women, were captured. They pleaded that they were not responsible. Cocaine fiends had joined the Bolsheviks in order to get supplies of the drug. One of the worst was a young woman who specialised in killing white officers, and she is credited with the murder of several hundreds. Her practice“was stand to her victim against a wall and start shooting with a revolver, beginning at tho feet, and working up the legs t 9 the body only despatching the sufferer finally when he was in a state of collapse.