RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 October 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

{ETROGRAD AND KRONSTADT.

WOMEN -DIGGING TRENCHES. • GREAT SCARCITY OF FOOD. By Telegrtph.—Prrai Assn.- Copyr'ght. Received Oct. 28, 10.50 p.m. Copenhagen, Oct. 26. Two officers who escaped from Kronfetadt, and another who flew from,Petrotst give terrible details of the conaij The whole population has been mobilised. Women are digging trenches, necessities are lacking and even failora, who are the masters of Petroferad, have to content themselves with I bread, herrings, and water. Others sel-l pom see bread. j The Bolshevists charged the whites jrith firing on factories, like the Sop>el Works and the Baltic. dockyards, rhey commenced house searchings, but bund few aims. Business is dead and the shops are . dosed. Cholera and typhus are raging r-*iui.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

f TOWARDS MOSCOW. 4&DVANCE OF DEKIKIN'S TROOPS. Receiced Oct. 28, 10.30 p.m. London, Oct. 26.

Denikin's communique states: Our troops advanced 180 kilometres towards fioteow during the month, capturing an Are* of 65,000 square kilometres.—Aua.|fZ Cable Assn. YUDENITCH'S SUCCESSES. MANY PRISONERS TAKEN. SUFFERING OF THE WOMEN. Received Oct. 29, 1.40 a.m. Helsingfors, Oct. 26. , Yudenitch captured in one day 12,000 |pf the enemy, which is more than his £otal number of bayonets. , He Immediately shot 27 commissaries fcnd sent 4000 prisoners into the White (Army's ranks and 8000 to work at bases. 3 The Beds ransacked the country during Ike retreat, removing food and even furniture. !■ Yudenitch is compelled to feed 30,000 children daily. Medicaments are lacking. [The bourgeois women and girls in PetroBrad, who are forced to dig entrenchments and barricades, fall exhausted, and fxa shot. ; The British monitor Erebus, with 15in. tuns, is bombarding Kronstadt. j Yudenitch sent a message to Helsingfors stating he will be in Petrograd in k fortnight.—Times Service. ; - TERRIBLE FIGHTING. INHUMAN METHODS OF WAR. TROTSKY'S MODERN WAYS. Received Oct. 29, 1.30 a.m. London, Oct. 26. , *'He fighting south of Petrograd has become terrible, a combination of jtiravexy, puailanimity, and savagery, reproducing some of the, worst features of -.bitter civil wars. Hatred is increasingly intense. I The Reds, as a whole, show little taste for warfare, but the degraded comfniauaries are now *ll powerful and keep than in action. Trotsky's lieutenants are making lav%ish use of the death penalty. The inhuman aspects of the crisis make it <ma $f the saddest of recent spectacles. Both armies are largely composed of retddente of Petrograd, and brothers are "meetings brothers, and fathers are meeting sons. Yudenitch cannot boast of mercifulness, Reds appear to revel in blood lush, lor Trotsky's wireless repeatedly anbounces dreadful punishment. Orders captured on prisoners incite troops to flagrant terrorism. The Helsingfors correspondent of the Times states that Yudenitch's renewed (efforts ate checked by persistent counter pttaokt. . JVhatever may be the thought' of Trotsky's desperate methods they have brought about better morale amongst the reds. He has disbanded the Soldiers' {Committee, thus violating a secred principle of Sovietism. He also changed caottafiden, produced thanks from return, and enforced a twelve-hour day in munition factories. He closed other factories to release men for the firing line. It is reported he is having women pained for military duties. He has al- ' 'feady formed women's medical corps, inIfcluding stretcher bearers. . / British tanks helped Yudenitch to get close to Tcarskoe Solo again, but a communique admits the Reds' reinforcement* compelled a retreat—Reuter, EtEFF RETAKEN, Received Oct. 28, 9.45 p.m. ( Paris, Oct. 26. The Echo de Paris says that Denikin, fitter a two days' battle, has retaken pUeff.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.