Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-20
Captures Reported Officially
by the General Staff Of the
Finnish Army and ReIayed
to Washington.
PETROGRAD AND MOSCOW
RAILROAD LINE SEVERED
Gen. Yudenitch's Troops 0c-
cupy Station Eight Miles
From Russian Capital and
Also Reach Nearby Suburb.

Washington. Oct. 19.-The fall Of
Petrograd and the occupancy of
both that city and the fortress of
Kronstadt by the Russian anti-boi-
sheviki forces has been reported
officially by the general staff of the
Finnish army to the Vibog repre-
sentative of the northwest govern
ment of Russia. This communica-
ton reached the state department to-
night
In making public the departments
advices, Acting Secretary Phillips
said that direct dispatch, dated to-
day and received here tonight from
the departments representative
nearest the old Russian capital, re.
ported that the Finnish official an.
nouncement had not been corrobo-
rated from other sources.
The announcements crediting the
Finnish general staff as authority
was dated yesterday. 1t came
from Viborg, and followed uncon-
firned reports to the department
through Swedish and Russian
sources saying that Petrograd and
Kronstadt had been wrested from
the bolsheviki by the Russian forces
under General Yudenitch; that with
the fall of the fortified Gatchina. IS
miles out from Petrograd on the
way to Berlin, the collapse Of the
old capital was inevitable, and that
the bolsheviki weres concentrating
all their troops fer decisive
struggle with General Denikine's
forces in the south.
One Capture Confirmed.
Helsingfors, Oct ia commun-
ication from the northwest Russian
army received here today confirms
the capture of Krasnaa Gorka, and
claims that the railway between
Petrograd and Moscow has been cut
W blowing up bridge over the
Tosna river.
The communication asserts the
bolsheviki have concentrated 10000
men at Gdof. on Lake Peipus, and
10000 near Petrograd, and declare
that they will offer strong resis-
tance.
The Tosna river crosses the rail-
way line at Tosna, 50 miles south
east of Petrograd. Krasnaia Gorka
lies on the Gulf of Finland to the
west of Kronstadt.
Gdoff is on the eastern shore OF
Lake Peipus, about 20 miles north
of Pskov.
Advices received here today say
that the occupation of Petrograd is
expected to take place this week, be-
fore Kronstadt is entered.
Petrograd Suburb Taken.
London, Oct. lo-General Yu-
denitchs troops have occupied the
station at Ligovo, about eight miles
from Petrograd, according to
Helsingfcrs dispatch to Reuters.
They have also reached the railway
junction at Putilov, a suburb of the
capital.
The red troops have retired from
Krasnrye Selo and Gatchina, short.
ly afterwards re-occucied both
towns, and the soviet army started
a counter offensive which promises
success, says wireless dispatch re.
ceived here tonight from Moscow.
hS ~PdtSii duuS tlldl tlIG ldIlQ
batteries at Kronstadt repelled at
tacks by British feet
A Reuter- dispatch from Helsing.
tors. lated Saturday, says:
The report of the surrender OF
Kronstadt and of the imminent fall
Ct Pe,rograd has caused great com.
merciai activity here, and there has
been a sudden rise in the value OF
the ruDle. Contracts for deliveries
of food and other necessities have
been hurriedly concluded.
M. Marguilies, minister of COM
merce> for the northwest Russian
government. has arranged for H.
100000 kilograms of rice to be
rushed to Petrograd as soon as the !,
treaty is ratified"
May Concentrate Now.
Warsaw, Oct. lo-As a result of
the commencement of hostilities by
the German Russian forces againsy
Lithuania, M. Skrynsk, Polish under.
secretary of state, has informed the
ambassadors of the Baltic states
that they could with perfect Sc
eurity concentrate against the Ger
mans and Russians, declaring that
Poland would never aid enterprises
OF Prussian militarism.
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