New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
Yudenitch Captures Cat
china; Workmen Offer
to Desert Bolsheviki
and Join His Forces
Heavy Gains Made
On Entire Front
Thousands of Prisoners
Taken; Cavalry Said to
Have Occupied Capital

PARIS. oct. 1S.-Ihe following no.
tice was posted at the Stock Exchange
this afternoons:
Official: Petrograd has been taken"
LONDON, Oct. 1S.---Further reports
from Scandinavian sources that Pet
rograd had been entered by forces Of
the Russian northwestern ariny we're
received this afternoon. The "Skunska
Dagbladet,' of Stockholm according to
message from the Swedish CAPITAL.
reported that the cavalry Of that army
had reached Petrograd
The white flag was hoisted over the
Bolshevik fortress of Cronstadt Fri
day night, according to Helsingfors
dispatch quoting Finnish General
Staff report.
Workmen Desert Lenin.
General Yudenitch has captured
Kresnaia Sclo and Gatchina, south of
Petrograd, where he met workingmen
from the city, who asked that the
northwestern Russian army refrain
I from Smelling Petrograd and pledging
II THIS promise was given to join the
anti Bolsheviki, according to another
Helsingfors dispatch received here.
Ihc, capture of Gatchina, it was
stated at the War Office, has been con-
firmed from British sources. The Boil
sheviki We're driven from the town
yesterday.
The. Esthonians, operating in the
coastal region along the Gulf of Fin
land, the official advices state. are
within a few miles of Krasnaia Gorka
and are facing the fortress Of Cron-
stadt.
In the centre of the advancing line
official information is that the anti
Bolshevik forces Thursday pushed
below Luga, eighty miles south of
Petrograd.
Fall of Cronstadt Doubted
The reports OF the surrender OF the
fortress of Cronstadt are regarded in
private military and naval circles
here as merely intellgent anticpa--
Associated Press this morning that
no reports had been received there re-
garding an Allied bombardment of
| Cronstadt. Since British Admiral
commands the Allied operations there
it was suggested that it would be OBJ
vious that official notifications of
such an event would have been for
WarQed to London.
The view Of military experts in Lon
Of Petrograd the Bolsheviki in Cron-
! stadt would be virtually cut off and
compelled to surrender.
The capture of Gatchina by the
tiBolshevik forces represents the
furthest advance on Petrograd this
year. When the movement was under
taken last spring the advancing troops
were thrown back from in front of
that place. The Importance of it's
ment that Gatchina, has been con-
sldered the strongest position this side
Of Petrograd.
Fierce Fighting on Orei Front
wireless communicate from Gen
eral Denikine's headquarters reports
very fierce fighting with the Bolshe-
wiki northwest and northeast of Orel,
and also in the region of Mogilev, on
the Bessarabian frontier. A number
of minor successes are reported.
A wireless message from Taganrog,
Russia. on the Sea of Azov, received
from Hesingfors, announces that the
Don Cossack troops. captured 5000
Bolsheviki in the vicinity of Voronezh,
recently occupied by General Denikine
after hard fighting. GA Bolshevik
counter offensive in this vicinity was
reported this week.)
An account of the rapid success
gained by the army Of General DEN
kline over the Bolsheviki in Central
Russia is given in an official COM
munique issued from the War Office
to-day. A Bolshevik offensive CAM
paign ~Qn all extensive scale. against
Tsaritsyn, on the Lower Volga. was
opened, it states, on October IL. OPP
erations were conducted on both sides
OF the volga and also to the westward
OF the Volga as far as the Don River.
Counter Attack Routs Reds
During two days, it is stated, the
Bolsheviki gained considerable ground
Then volunteers under Generals
Warangel and Ulagga delivered q
sharp counter attack, recovering all the
ground which had been lost and in
hicting severe losses upon the Boil
sheviki. Further TO the west the Cos
sack forces crossed the Don on wide
front and cleared the triangle OF
; ground between Novo- Orig )revskaya
and Ust Medyieditsa, one hundred
miles northwest of Tsaritsyn, taking
200 prisoners, with many guns.
Still further westward the Cossack.
occupied the line of the Khoper River
one of the northern tributaries Of the
Don. from its junction with the Don te
Tishanskaya, taking the towns of Kal.
, atoh and Pavlovsk which lie westward
Of the Khoper, between that river ant
, voronezh. Prisoners to the number OF
) 2,l50, including complete field bat
talon, were taken, and another Rec
regiment WAS destroyed. Large num-
bers of prisoners were also taken a.
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