New-York tribune., 1919-10-27
Military Training Ordered,
Preparatory to Forming
Them Into Medical Corns.
Petrograd Reports State
Factories To Be Closed
All Workmen To Be Sent to
the Front; Yudenitch Re.
sumes Drive Toward CITY

HELSINGFORS, Oct. 26.--Reports
from Petrograd state the central exec
utlve committee (the soviet organiza
tlon) has decided to close all the fac
tories and send the workmen to the
front. Women will undergo military
training and be formed into medical
corps, according to the same order.
A Russian army officer, who escaped
from Petrograd, says the situation
there is desperate. The absolute neces
sltles of life are lacking and even the
sailor masters of the city have only a
meagre diet of bread, herrings and
water. The rest of the population
rarely see bread Coal is lacking. busi
ness is dead and cholera and typhoid
fever are raging.
The official reports Of the North
western army this morning and last
night state that General Yudenitch has
southwest and southeast of Petrograd
in spite of the arrival of Bolshevik re-
inforcements from the North Russian
front. The White troops have fought
their way eastward as far as Tosna,
twenty-five miles east of Gauchina. on
the railroad to Moscow. This point
had been reached earlier by a cavalry
raid.
Drive to Coast Under Way
The White troops were also pushing
their way northward from Krasnole
Selo toward the Gulf of Finland in an
endeavor to reach the coast at point
between Cronstadt and Petrograd.
The fall of Petrograd is inevitable
according to reliable advices tele-
graphed from Reval. General Yude-
mitch intends, after the capture of the
city, not to halt in Petrograd, but to
march forward to the line of the River
Volkhov, which connects Lake linen
and Lake Ladoga, about seventy-tive
miles east Of. Petrograd where a con-
venient line of defense against an at.
tack from the direction Of Moscow
protected on either flank by the two
big lakes, is offered Mobilization of
the population in the rear of this line
for the defense Of Petrograd is con-
templated.
Many already have left Reval en-
route for Petrograd, but they will not
be permitted to enter the city, it ia
stated, because of the disease and
shortage of food prevailing in Petro-
grad.
OMSK, Saturday, October 18.--The
general staff of the Siberian army in
it's official report states that many
Bolshevik prisoners captured in the
recent advance, who had been forced
to join the Bolshevik troops, have ex-
pressed their desire tie enlist in the
All-Russan army, and are now fight
ing in its ranks.
Two Red Regiments Captured
Among the 5000 prisoners captured
in the advance in the region of Semi
rechiye (reported from Washington Oc-
tober I'D were two entire regiments
of Bolshevik infantry and eleven de
tachments of cavalry. A great quantity
of arms and ammunition also was
captured.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 26 (By The
Associated Press Reports from Tiflis
indicate that new disturbances have
broken out in the Russian Caucasus
which may endanger the campaign of
General Denikine by cutting off his
supply Of fuel oil from Baku' for rail-
way and river transport, and may even
result in setting up a new front in
his rear. The inha bitants of Daghes-
tan, the mountainous province of the
Northeastern Caucasus, have recently
started revolt owing to attempts to
draft them into his army.