SECOND EDITION. YUDENITCH’S RETREAT

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15970, 12 November 1919, Page 9

SECOND EDITION. YUDENITCH’S RETREAT

J BOISHETIKS TO ATTACK ■ FINLAND Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Deceived November 12, 2.30 p.m. HELSINGFORS, November 10. Yudenitcii is endeavouring to retire behind the Luga river and and seeking to escape the pinning in between Lake t'eipus and Narvabay, with which he Js threatened. The Bolsheviks are concentrating JacAe forces at- Eakakemnu, cn the Finnish frontier, preparing to attack Finland. POSITION ©ROWING WORSE TTJDENITCH’S FOOLHARDY SCHEME.LONDON, November 10. The latest news from Russia suggests fbat the position of Yudenitch and Koltchak is going from bad to worse, as Yvdenitch is rapidly falling back on YRmburg and the Bolsheviks are strenuously seeking to cut oft his retreat by 9 flank blow. It is no longer a matter cf defending certain strategic positions, Jmt withdrawing from the most. dangerous possible situation with the smallest foes. An officer of high rank at Helsingfors jstates that Yndenitch had only ten thousand men -when he attacked Petrogxad, and the whole scheme was foolhardy in the extreme. Koltchak’scol-. lapse was equally serious, especially his left flank’s loss of Petro-Pavlovsk, which gives the reds a base for an attack on '‘husk. KOLTCHAK’S COLLAPSE. PANIC AT OMSK SUBSIDING. LONDON, November 9, Mr Wilton telegraphs from Omsk, on the 4th, that the collapse on the Koltchak front was duo to the failure of the Cossacks at Petropavlovsk. The panic at Omsk is subsiding. The Reds are pouring in troops from a new levy of 650,000, who are using German methods c-f massed formations. The Government had ordered the evacuation of Omsk, but has now decided to defend to the end. This is against military advice that it threatens a great catastrophe. A DISQUIETING REPORT. Received November 12, 2 p.m. LONDON, November 10. The Daily Express publishes a Tokio message from Omsk, stating that Keltchak’s retreating armies are murdering their officers. YUDENITCH STILL HOPEFUL COPENHAGEN, November 9. Yudenitch, interviewed, explained that the retreat was due to the blowiug up of Yamburg railway bridges, preventing tlie arrival of supplies. Ho believes the troops will bear the winter campaign batter than the Bolsheviks. It is unlikely operations will be stepped. Eleven British destroyers have passed Copenhagen, going the Baltic. AN AMERICAN IDEA. HELSINGFORS, November 9. It is rumoured that a section of the Allies is again coquetting with the idea of regoiating with the Bolsheviks. Certain American groups entertain a project of running the blockade to Petrograd either with food ships (trusting the British Fleet will not intervene forcibly) or sending a fleet of motor lorries on a dash across the frontier from Viborg. Russian .loyaltists are apprehensive, pointing out that the Allies’ cat-and-monse policy is unworthy, and liable to Inin future relations with Russia.