CRISIS RAPIDLY APPROACHING.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15203, 16 October 1919, Page 5

CRISIS RAPIDLY APPROACHING.

!YUDENITCH NEARING PETIIOGRAI>. REINFORCEMENTS FOR B3NIMKX ; (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) (Received Oct. 15, 11.35 p.m.) London, Oct. 15. Copenhagen messages state that the

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Russian situation is reaching a crisis with unexpected rapidity. Yudenitch is fighting twenty miles west of Catehina, and is within forty miles of Petrograd. He hopes to enter Petrograd in three weeks.

The greater part of Riga is in flames. The Germans are still outside the town, and are trying to negotiate with the Letts and Esthonians. Yon der Goltz on Monday surrendered his command to General Eberhadrt.

The "Daily Express' " correspondent with Deniken's right wing says the whole of the fighting is a puzzle to soldiers who fought in France. No one digs in, and neither side courts an encounter, but the raids of the mounted Cossacks are real adventures, and aim at giving the populations behind the Red army a chance of rising. Deniken's army is » now being reinforced by batteries of guns manned by men drilled by British officers. Their morale is immensely increased by English clothes and the pride taken in English weapons.