RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 October 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

YUDENITCH'S SUCCESSES,

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By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Oct. 25. Thursday's North-West Russian communique states that Yudenitch occupied Strelna, on the Gulf of Finland, permitting a rear attack on Krasnaya Gorka, where heavy naval guns afford subsidiary defence for Kronstadt.

A British War Office communique states that Yudenitch, on Wednesday, captured Pavlovsk, also Sablina, 25 mile 9 eastward of Gatchina. Other successes, eastward of Luga and north-eastward of Pskoff, remove the menace to the right flank.

A Bolshevik wireless message, dated Friday, claims that they have recaptured Pavlovsk, Tsarskoe Selo, and the villages south-eastward of Luga, also that they reoccupied Tobolsk.

An unofficial Copenhagen message, dated Friday, reports that the attack on Petrograd has been resumed. Yudenitch's position has greatly improved; heavy guns and tanks have arrived and are now in action. Yudenitch's army elsewhere is within three miles of Kolpino station, the capture of which will cut the Moscow railway.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable A3sn. Stockholm, Oct. 25.

A strong movement is on foot in Finland in favor of intervention in support of Yudenitch, but the Socialists are organising opposition.

Copenhagen, Oct. 24. Bolshevik newspapers announce that Trotsky is in Petrograd preparing the defences of the city. All the theatres are closed and the people are not allowed in the streets after 8, o'clock in the evening. It is reported that destructive fires are ravaging the city. The Esthonians are approaching Pskoff, and armoured trains are bombarding' the station.

London, Oct. 25,

From present information British official circles do not attach much importance to the reported advance of some of Petloura's force towards Odessa. Possibly the force consists of stray bands not sufficiently strong to interfere with Denikin's army northward.