The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-15
SOvIETS DOOMED


His right flank is near Kamishn. AIS
miles due east of Chernigoff on the
Volga.
The Bolshevist leaders. it is report
ed, are preparing to evacuate Petro-
grad and, should Denikine's advance
may, it is reported, give up the game
entirely at Moscow and in Central Rus
STA and retreat into Turkestan.
Say Petrograd VIII Fall.
I Stockholm, Oct. 14.-The north
western Russian army is reported here
to have pushed some thirty-five miles
beyond hamburg, and to be within
only thirty miles southwest of Petro-
grad. The taking of 1900 prisoners
and nine guns from the Bolsheviki is
announced. Confidence is expressed
among the officers that Petrograd will
fall before their attack.
Poles Smash Russo-Huns.
Stockholm, Oct. 15.-The Poles
have begun an offensive against the
Germano-Russian forces in the Baltic
region, according to a message re-
ceived from Riga. They are reported
to have captured Kovno, sixty miles
northwest of Wilma, near the Courland
border.
Copenhagen. Oct. 15.-Savage fight
ing is still going on in the city of
troops AMI the German Russian army
which entered the western part of the
city last week. Reports reaching here
state that shells have fired a portion
of the town and that great damage
has been done the quays and harbors.
Many civilians have been killed during
the battle. Dispatches received here
state that all the prisoners taken by
the Let's have been Bavarians.
British Troops landed.
British warships have become in
volved in the fighting. having been
fired upon by the German Russian
forces, and an unconfirmed report de-
clares a British force has been landed
in or near the city.
Blockade measures are seemingly
being rigidly enforced in the Baltic,
six German ships having been cap
tured by one British destroyer.
Part of Riga Is Burning.
London, Oct 15.-A part of Riga Is
burning. having been set afire by the
German bombardment, a dispatch
from Helsingfors reported today. The
German attack Monday is reported to
have been less intense than previously,
altho it included the use of poison
gas and trench mortar shells
The Let's resistance has been &C
companied by many valorous Incl
dents. At one place Lettish woman,
Caroline Mazian, seized a rifle and en-
tered the trench alongside the men.
Reports from Reval indicate that
General Yudenitch, commander of
Russian northwestern army, is meet
ing pronounced success in lbs advance
against the Bolsheviki. On Sunday his
forces captured Volosaava and Vruda,
25 miles beyond hamburg, the town
IS miles southwest of Petrograd which
has become Yudenitchs base of sup
ply. From Vruda the Russian cav
airy dashed % miles and seized Co.
montova. The Russians also occupied
Pskoff and advanced within three
miles of Luga. In twenty-four hours
they gained Is miles, according to
Reval dispatches.
In the past two days a British de-
stroyer has brought to Reval six Ger
man ships which were trying to run
the blockade.
General Won der Goltz, according to
the Berlin Tages Zeitung, has re-
signed from the army as a result of
the entente's latest note.
Official Reports.
London. Oct. IA (Tuesday). The
British mission at Helsingfors, dated
October 10. which says that at that
time all Lettish troops in Riga had
been withdrawn to the east bank of
the Duna river, the bridges having
been blown up. When the dispatch
slams were exchanging rifle fire across
the river and the section of the city
still in the hands of the former was
being bombarded with gas shells and
also bombed by airplanes.
Esthonian trains had arrived over
the Riga Pskov railway to support the
Lettish forces and were replying to
the German fire. The British mis-
sion denies assertions made by Colonel
Avaloff- Bermondt to the effect that