The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-21
NEAR LAST STAND
Red Troops Being Slowly Driv-
en- Back ON Petrograd.
Yudeaitch Captures Pulkoya,
Site of Famous Observatory.
DENIKlNE DEFEATS SOWETS
BOlsheviki Claim Reeapture of
OreI in This Sector.
Report Says Reds Still Hold
KrORstadt-Big Sea Battle.

Stockholm, Oct 21.-General Yu-
ldenitch. commander of the Russian
anti Bolshevik forces investing Petro-
grad. told Nelson Morris, American
ambassador to Sweden. that he ex-
pceted to enter the city some time
today. Yudenitch made the statement
IN requesting Morris to ask the United
States to aid the starving population
OF the city.
London, Oct. 21.-Forces of the
Russian soviet government are being
slowly driven back to their last de-
fenses in front of Petrograd, Gen
erai Yudenitch has captured PulkoVa,
about seven miles south of the city,
and Ligova. less than eight miles to
the southwest, according to unofficial
reports.
Bo.EleWk troops are apparently
formed along the Ptrograd -LuSa-
Skov railroad where they are stub
bornly contesting each attempt of the
Iudenitch' forces to drive eastward.
The anti Boisheviki reached a point
near Luga. last week but since that
time there has been no indication that
the railroad has been crossed at any
point south of CATCHING which is ad-
mitted to be in the hands of the Yu-
dcniteh army.
Fleet ana Fort in Duel
Soviet forces seem still TO be hold
ing the coastal region west of Petro-
grad, Heisingfofs dispatch telling of
a duel between an nti-Bolsheviki
fleet and the Eort at Krasnaia Gorka.
a great fire accompanied by an ex-
ploslon, was observed after the battle.
but il is said it may have been at
Orienbaum. village about IL miles
east of KFasnaia Gorka.
Kew. which was occupied by Boil
shcvik troops last week, has been at
tackled by General Denikine's CossackS
who have forced the Reds out of most
of the city. Fighting was still going
on there last Friday Nearer the
center of General Danikine's line the
soviet armies have aasayed "a counter
offensive, launching an attack at
I[ronu, seventeen miles southwest of
Orel. This attack was completely de-
feated, according to an official re-
port.
Dcniklnc Defeats Reds.
Southeast of Orel the Bolshevik have
suffered disastrous defeat. an official
report says. This battle took place
west of the Shoper river, the. most
important tributary of the Don. It
is said volunteer troops of the Deni-
kline army are following up their Id
vantage in this region. =
Itolckak troops on the Siberian front
arc said to have met with reverse,
losing quite heavily. in fighting near
hNfBan. THIS report IL COHIlrD0eNtr
would seem to throw some doubt on
recent reports that the Bolshevih are
rapidly retreatinE on the eastern front.
IS late as October 9 Kurgan was in
the hands of the Bolshoviki.
beds Claim Orcis Capture.
London. oct. 21.-Orel has been re-
taken by the Bolsheviki. who also
have defeated nineteen regiments of
General Mamontoffs army outside of
Noronezh' according to a wireless dis
patch sent out by the soviet govern
ment in Moscow.
Reds Stll Hold Hronstadt!
London, Oct 21.4The fortress of
Ilronstadt was still in the hands of
the Bolsheviki Sunday. according to
a dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Terjioki, Finland, from which place
the red flag was then visible at the
masthead Of the battleship Petro-
pavlovsk which is reported to have
been raised since she was torpedoed
by the British in August and now is
lying in the Kfonstadt harbor.
The dispatch to the Mail states that
factories at Krotstadt were working
Sunday and that Sseaplanes which
bombed the fortress that day were
sIred on by aflti-aireraft guns. The
reported raising OF the white flag al
Kronstadt is as yet unexplained.
Holding Observatory City. 80
It is generally assumed here that
PetrogrRd is isolated ana its fall is q
matter of short time. but the posi-
ton is obscure with the exception OF
official stateme Iifs that the road to
Moscow has been cut and that be-
siesers are within only a few miles OF
the city 1t Is said they are holding
among other places. Pulkova, the site
of the famous <impcrial Observatory
which oveflooks Petrograd.
A Helsingors dispatch received yes
= terday says General Yudenitch and
staff are at Gatchihn. which apparent
~ confirms the British war office as
sumption that that place is firmly in
the hands of the anti Bolsheviki
FOR Tired People.