Evening star., 1919-10-15
;DEN|K|NE' ARMY
CAPTURES OREL
Anti-BoIsheviks Nearing Pc.
trograd and Moscow, Soviet
Government Facing Crisis.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. October 15.-Gen. Denf-
kine's anti-bolshevik army has can
tured the important city of orel. to-
se1her with thousands of prisoners
ana enormous quantities of material
IL Is announced in adyfces ,.-
ceived here today. Two batteries Of
boishevik artillery fell into Gen. Dem
ikine's hands -
(Whilc Orel is 23s mile, .outb .,
Moscow. possession of the city will
give Gen. Denikine a secure hold on
vast stretches Of territory in old Rus
sia' as the place Is one of the most
Important railway centers south Of the
present Russian capitalJ
With Gen. Denikine's Cossack army
advancing from the south and the
northwestern Russian forces aImost
WITHIN striking distance of PetroRrad
the soviet government of Russia an,
pears to be facing a crisis. Bolsheyik
neadquarters at Petrograd were
dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Reval.
Bolshevists Lose on Wide Front.
The northwestern Russian army has
apparently crashed through the boil
sheviki over a wide front Pskov has
been captured and it is believed that
the forces under Cen Yudenitch also
have taken the important town of
Luga, about eighty-five miles south
west or Petrograd. The capture of
Yamburg, seventy-flve miles from
Petrograd was reported on Monday,
and latest dispatches indicate the line
or advance to be nearly l25 miles in
length.
On the south the Denikine troops
appear to have approached quite near
the town of Tula, which is consider
ed the key to MOSCOW from that side
A dispatch received here says that
II Tula falls to the Cossacks the boil
shevik commissaries will fee into
Turkestan. taking advantage of a gap
between the Denikine and Kolchak
forces in the Volga valley.
The offensive recently announced
by the bolsheviki against Gen. Deni-
kine's right wing north of Tsaritzyn,
between the Don and the Volga rivers,
has been beaten Off with severe losses.
it is indicated in a wireless COM
munfque from Gen. Denikine. Near
Ilovinsk the 344th Boishevik Regi-
ment was wiped out. 600 of it's men
being captured. the statement claims
oners were captured at the occupa-
tion Of Chernigoff on the left wing
of Gen. Denikine's army north Of
Kiev. Gen. Denikine. the statement
rescued 800 hostages. who
had been condemned by the bolsheviki
to be shot.
q. S. Not Party to Blockade.
PARIS, October IA (by the Asso-
~ - cd Tho 70 =,
not join with the entente powers in
asking Germany to cooperate in a
blockade Of soviet Russia. and the
American delegation here does not
admit any American participation in
actual blockade against Russia in the |
Baltic. as that country is unwilling |
to approve the principle of a peace |
full blockade, and none of the allied |
and associated powers are actually |
at war with the soviet government.
delegation were asked today If ships |
from Sweden or other neutral coun-
tries could proceed to Russia they |
replied the ships probably would be |
turned back by British or French /
Asked if a ship could sail |
grad. they replied the War Trade |
Board would not grant clearance pa
pers to such a vessel.
Germany May Accede to Request.
BERLIN, Tuesday. October IA (by
he Associated Press).-The Kruez
zeitung learns from well informed
luarters" the government will in all
agree to join in the block
Lde of soviet Russia proposed by the
.ntente powers. 1t is said the govern
nent will lay down certain conditions
Incident to it's participation and will
consider Germany's foreign
,olitical interests when reaching a de-
ision as to it's final attitude"
Special dispatches received from
report that commercial
nd Industrial circles there are un-
asy because of the fear that a block
de of the Baltic would prove disas-
rous to East Prussia. That section
as been chiefly dependent upon mari
line traffic for all supplies since the
ollapse of railroad service. Only lin
ted quantities of necessaries, such a.
o codstufYs. coal and petroleum, can be
AIKEN overland at present. |;
The blockade, 1t Is said, also would
rove fnimical to commercial relations
yith border states, where, dispatches
eclare, England is aspiring to as