IN BOLSHEVIK RUSSIA.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1785, 3 November 1919, Page 7

IN BOLSHEVIK RUSSIA.

YUDENITCH RETREATS.

By Calif. — Press Association. — Copyright. (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, Oct. 30. Copenhagen reports that General Yudenitch continues to retreat, and the initiative has passed entirely into the hands of the Bolsheviks. The Australian Press Association learns that the Russian military situation is regarded as intensely interesting. The Bolsheviks massed a large force in Petrograd for a coun-ter-offensive. The bulk were put in west of Krasnoie Selo, and worked round it, compelling General Yudenitch's retirement to a shorter line. The effort appears to have exhausted the Bolsheviks, who suffered severely, and it is believed the situation is now stable. General Denikin continues to press forward generally, and General Petloura's army is regarded as a dying concern, dangerous neither to General Denikin nor to the Bolsheviks.

BOLSHEVIKS SUFFER.

(A. & N.Z.) LONDON, Nov. 1. The War Office states that the Bolsheviks on October 29 attempted to break through at Ropscha, which formed the junction of Yudenitch's troops and the Esthonians. The Bolsheviks created a gap, but a counterattack closed it, and 1500 Bolsheviks were taken prisoner. The Bolsheviks retreated to Krasnoie Selo. There is apparently no truth in the Bolshevik statement that Yudenitch has evacuated Gatchin^.

DENIKIN'S SUCCESSES.

(A. & N.Z.) LONDON, Nov. 1. General Denikin's Don army surrounded a Bolshevik division, and also captured Abramox with 900 prisoners. General Denikin occupied Robrov after heavy fighting. The volunteer army is heavily engaged on both sides of Jeletz and Orel, and has taken 500 prisoners. Denikin's troops westward of Kieff forced back the Bolsheviks to the Ippen river. The only set-back on the whole front was at Voronesh, where severe fighting continues. Denikin's troops were forced back to the Don river.

LOAN FROM JAPAN.

(A. & N.Z.) NEW YORK, Nov. 1. The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" cays the State Department has received a report that the Vladivostock branch of the Omsk Government bank has secured a loan of approximately 20,000,000 yen from a Japanese syndicate to purchase supplies.