Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-20
MANIFESTO ISSUED
BY TROTzKY TELLS
OF C|TY'S DANGER
Predicts Petrograd Will
Stand Despite Activities
of Warning Factions. !
RAILWAY TO CAPITAL CITY
Is REPORTED AS DESTROYED
Bridge Across Tosna River Blown
Up, Cutting Communica-
ton Sources.
10000 TROOPS AT GDoE:s
British Airplanes Reported Dropping
Bombs, and Fleet Is Said to
Have Shelled Fort.
RAILWAY TO CAPITAL CITY
Is REPORTED AS DESTROYED
10000 TROOPS AT GDoEr
British Airplanes Reported Dropping
Bombs, and Fleet Is Said to
Have Shelled Fort,

Have Shelled Fort.
LONDON, Oct. 1s.-Moscow will bs
burned before 1t is surrendered to the
anti Bolshevist forces This was the
word received here tonigh, from tho
radicals in Moscow. Leon Trutzky, the
Bolshevist War Minister, Nlate today
issued a manifesto. in which he said:
Danger again comes to Petrograd.
The stock exchanges and the press OF
the whole world are sharing that JOY,
preaiic5ItinE the fall OF Petrograd. But
From HelsinEfors tonight a message
@nj Satiop nece1oed e1oe stating ha that commun
army confirms the capture OF krasnaia
Gorka. and claims that the railway be-
cut by blowing up a bridge over the
Tosna River.
The Communication asserts that the
men at Gdof. on Lake Peipus. and dan an
ptaeo r9;poo rnsn men are gathered near
offer strong resistance.
Report Capture Of LiEova.
Capture OF LiEova. FIVE miles south
or Petrograd, Is reported in another
era ssTs sas to Gen
possession OF the city. This message
e1sS eo% so,rnrns eoniirms the Guttine OF the Mos
isolation OF the former Russian On pitaI
almost complete.
:, British airplanes. according, to the
naia Gorka., southwest OF the fortress
Is 2sm fssxss sTy f
iand' land the statement s was contained that
the Kronrsad, Tea nag ,5d was ,Ss again aying over
had been active during Friday night.
s,hien The railway junction at Putilov
captured in a message received lata IN
night.
Red Troops Retnke Towns.
BE Red II Troops which retired from Kras.
10 have retaEen the towns WINS oiiy shortiy
starsed sEaido, counter offensive. which
less message from Moscow late to-
nisht. fhsf ,,nd The message also announeed
The situation tonight looks Slightly
less less 5avoTable for the anti; ;Bolsheyist
forces are on the right at Of 5ffts General nsd
.hreatenea in the flank. and 10000 BOZ
former capital itself.
Dispatches continue. however. to
being. "a matter OF hours % S'eSrad Troops of Of
the. North Russian army are reported
to have captured the important harbor
stores OF ammunition. This army is
now said to be only eighteen miles from
Petrosrad.
Soldiers Ask for Food.
One unconflrmed report says dele
gates OF the workmen OF Petrograd
told General Yudenitch the city was
ready TO- surrender II assured food
bard the city. the story has il, and he
promised to heed their reouest If the
% %workmen carried out their under
All those dispatches are taken with
considerable skepticlsm here. The
real situation continues to be yelled
WASHINGTON IS ADVISED
PETRoGRAD HAS FALLEN
fBy Universal Serv,ce1
WASHINGTON, Oct. ls.-Petrosrad
has fallen. according TO an official dis
patch received and made public to-
by Das shs also State tate Departments
the Bolshevists.
The announcement was made by
inctnE i wa ssersiagy OF State Phillips but
complete confirmation has not Vet
been received from the American
+Esa' ss s,s,s ws0 is
says: ''''ei'
The fsl! OF Petrograd and the oc-
by the s0'f saaa city Wh1. and kron
has been ofticiaiiy reported bY ofHes tbs
genera! ;s star of the Finnish army 70
sio flRot representative of the
orlhWestern government Of Russia"
Mt fhiliips added that direct dis
patch dated today. and received by
me state Department from its repre-
sentative nearest the old. Russian capt
tal reports that the Finnish official
= ~ nm niouncement has not yet been Off,
ci1Iiy corroborated from other sources.
rinnts NE {irs. message reporting the
and dated yesterday. 1t came from
nloorg Il followed unconnrmed re-
ment through Swedish and Russan
sources to the effect that the two
cues had been taken from the Boil
SheHlsts by attacking forces under
General Yudeniteh and that with Tho
ta! OF Fort Gatchina. thirty Ave miles
rom Petrosrad. on the way 10 Bere
The Bolshevists are now reported
70 ne concentrating all their forces
Denik,ne,ssi sisive ,reo strusEle with General