The sun., 1919-10-19
Kronstadt's Capture Is Not
Officially Confirmed, but
Is Believed Imminent.
GERMANS IN RIGA ATTACK
Use Poison Gas, Killing Many
Civilians-Numer0us Red
Prisoners Captured.


night was so closely invested by the
anti-Bolshevik forces, according to the
latest official advices, that military
experts expressed the belief that little
short of a miracle could save the hard
pressed Bolshevil,l. Indeed, one news
paper despatch reported Gen. Yude-
nitch's cavalry in the capital.
These dispatches were from Scan
dinavian sources and stated that
Petrograd had been entered by forces
Of the Russian Northwestern Army.
The ShdnSkd DGgblddet of Stockholm,
according to message from the
Swedish capital, reported that the
cavalry of that army had reached
Petrograd.
There was no official confirmation
obtainable of this information.
WOrkmen Turning From Reds
Another despatch said that Gen
Yudenitch had captured Kresuoe Selo
and Gatchina, twenty-five miles south
Of Petrograd, where he met working
men from the city who asked that the
Northwestern Russian Army refrain
from shelling Petrograd and pledging
If this promise was given to JOIN the
| anti Bclsheviki, according to Hell
singfors despatch received here
A wireless message sent Friday
night from the Bolshevik wireless sta
ton at Tsarskoe Selo stated that the
work of the station would be inter
rupted Some time" owing to "neces-
sary repairs" and that the Bolsheviki
would use the Moscow station.
The fact that the Bolshevlki up to
Friday were sending messages from
Tsarskoe Selo would seem to dispose
of many early rumors that Petrograd
had been captured.
No British official confirmation has
been received of the reported surren-
der of Kronstadt, although the War
| Office states that the Esthonians on
Fricey, operating In conjunction with
Yudenitch. got within four miles Of
! the Krasnaia Gorka, facing Kronstadt.
I Thus lironstadt would be in a dan.
gercus position, as with the capture
| OF Eetrograd 1t would be cut OF
| Coincident with these reports comes
/ a Vitriolic announcement by Leon
! Trotzky, the Bolsheyik War Minister.
referring TO the -Bolshevik forces
as "a pack OF bourgeois ours worrying
! the body of Soviet Russia" and de-
claring that Petrograd will not fall
Fierce Fighting I'm the oreI.
! In the meantime in the south Gen
} Denikine has been pursuing his sue
| cesses. But he is meeting with strenu-
! Gus resistance in the Orel region. where
the fercest fighting is going on
I In the centre of the advancing line
! official information is that the anti
| Bolshevik forces on Thursday pushed
forward to a point three or four miles
below Luga, eighty miles south OF Pc
| trograd
No Esthonian troops have yet partioi-
| rated In the defence OF Riga, although
! their artillery is assisting, according 10
| statement made to the Associated
| Press to-day by the Lettlsb Legation
! here. The negotiations at ReVal re-
! garding Esthonian help have not yet
been concluded.
Gen. Yudenitch, commander of tho
! Russian Northwestern Army has sent
| two guns from his front TO assist the
! Let's The aid OF the Anglo-French
navy IL repelling the attack on Risa
consisted Of strong naval artillery fire
and other support. Tho Germans suf-
fered great losses, The allied missions
are now at Riga.
| The German bombardment with high
explosives and asphyxistinE ges caused
many deaths among the civilians in the
city and destroyed many houses Vol
! unteers for the front and police duty
are applying to Lettish authorities con-
! tiuually and despatch from Premier
/ Unman says that the enthusiasm OF the
troops and population ia indescribable
Exclusively Bettish troops are holding
the front from Riga 10 the Bolshevik
front near Dvinsk
The legation denies categorically the
German assurances that no German
( troops assisted Col, AvalofF Bermondt's
attack on Riga excepting those who
| to!ned him against the orders of the
German Government. Tho prisoners
taken by the Let's are German soldiers
from the forces under Won der Goltz.
German Traitors EKecuted,
Numerous traitors. who directed the
German artillery fire by light signals
from the centre OF Riga, have been exs-
cuted.
i The wireless communique from Gen
Deuikiuc's headquarters reports very
derca hs'ung with the Bolshevik
northwest and northeast OF Orel and
also IN the region Of Mogilev, on the
Bessarabiar frontier.
Gen, Denikine appeaH 10 be advanc-
ing his left flank along the Dniaper
valley, taking Chernigoff and moving
lnorthward toward Gomel. where his
coasacks may Join Polish fSTcs ana