The sun., 1919-10-27
YUDENITCH OPENS
ANOTHER OFFENSIVE
Telegraphs He Is Confident Of
Being in Petrograd With
in Fortnight.
WHITE TROOPS ADVANCE
Soviet Decides to Close All
Factories and Send Work
men to Front.
Special Gable Despatch to TIE Sun from the
LANDAU. Tirnna aert,icf

Special Gable Despatch to The Sun from the
London Times Service.
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HEr.srNcroRs, Oct 26.-Gen. Yude-
mitch has sent message to your corre-
spondent that he is confident of being in
Petrograd within a fortnight
monitor carrying two fifteen inch
guns has arrived to help the British fleet
in the Baltic. There is very heavy
fighting near Tsarskoe Selo. the Whites
regaining several villages. There are
also obvious signs Of a more determined
Red counter offensive.
HE1s1NoFoRs, Oct 25-The official re-
ports of the northwestern army this
morning and last night state that Gen.
Yudenitch has successfully resumed the
offensive southwest and southeast of
Petrograd in spite of the arrival of Boil
shevik reinforcements from the north
Russian front The white troops have
fought their way eastward as far as
Tosna, twenty-five miles east of Catchina,
on the railroad to Moscow, his point had
been reached earlier by a cavalry raid.
| The white troops were also pushing
their way northward from Krasnoye
Selo toward the Gulf of Finland in an
endeavor to reach the coast at a point
| between Kronstadt and Petrograd.
This mornings report reads; "A Sc
we're engagement occurred near Krasnoye
| Selo (sixteen miles southwest of Petro-
grad). North of Krasnoye Selo our troops
| began the offensive and captured Tshu-
konsksya, Koprova and Gorialova (vil-
lagos between Krasnoye Selo ana the
| Gulf of Finland)."
| The communique last evening stated !:
| "On Thursday our troops advanced by
| sharp fighting as far as Tosna Con the
Moscow railway, thirty miles southeast
| of Petrograd). The enemy attacked our
positions at Russkoye Selo and at Ka-
poskoye several times, but were repulsed
with heavy casualties. The Bolshevists
have received reenforcements from the
Archangel and Karelian fronts.
| Reports from Petrograd state that the
Central Executive Committee (the Soviet
| organization) has decided to close all
the factories and send the worknen to
| the front. Women will undergo military
| training and be formed, into a medical
corps, according to the same order.
A Russian army officer who escaped
from Petrograd. says the situation there
is desperate. The absolute necessities
of life are lacking and even the sailor
masters OF The city have only meagre
diet OF bread. herrings and water. The
rest of the population rarely see bread.
Coal is lacking, business is dead and
cholera and typhoid fever are raging.
REvAL, Oct 26.-The fall OF Pstrograd
Is inevitable. according TO reliable ;,d-
vices. Gen. Yudenitch intends after the
capture OF the city not to halt in Pc
trograd, but to march forward to the
lint of the River Volkhov. which con-
meets Lake linen and Lake Ladoga
about seventy-fve miles to the east OF
Petrograd, where convenient line OF
defence against an attack from the d.
rection of Moscow, protected on either
flank by the two big lakes. is offered
A mobilization of the population in the
rear of this line fof the defence of Pc.
trograd is contemplated.
Many have already left here en- route
for Petrograd. but they will not be per.