The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-10-21
'0REL RETAKEN
BY BOLSHEvlKI.
In Front of Petrograd Forces
of Russian Soviet Slowly
Give Way.
CONTEST IS STUBBORN
Denikine's Cossacks Gradually
Forcing Reds Out of Kiev.
Kolchak Meets Reverses,

London, Oct. 21.--Orel has been re-
taken by the bolsheviki, who also
have defeated nineteen regiments of
Gen. Mamontoffs army outside of
Voronezh, according to wireless
dispatch sent out by the soviet gov
ernment in Moscow.
Forces of the Russian soviet gov
ernment are being slowly driven back
to their last defcnses in front of Pc
trograd. Gen. Yudenitch has cap
tured Pulkova, about seven miles
south of the city, and Ligova. less
than eight miles to the southwest.
according to unofficial reports. Boil
shevik troops are apparently formed
along the Petrograd-Luga- Pskov
railroad, where they are stubbornly
contesting each attempt Of the Yude-
mitch forces to drive eastward. The
antibolsheviki reached a point near
Luga last week, but since that time
there has been no indication that the
railroad has been crossed at any
point south of Gatchina, which Is ad-
mitted to be in the hands of the
Yudenitch army.
Soviet forces seem still to be hold
ing the coastal region west of Petro-
grad, says Helsingfors dispatch
telling of a duel between an anti
bolshevik fleet and the fort at Kras-
naia Gorka. A great fire, accom-
panied by an explosion, was observed
after the In htf 4 iy
have been at Oranienbaum, village
about twelve miles east of krasnaia
Gorka.
Kiev, which was occupied by boil
shevik troops last week, has been at
tackled by Gen. Denikines Cossacks.
who have forced the reds out OF most
OF the city. Fighting was still going
on there last Friday.
Nearer the center of Gen. Deni-
kines lines the soviet army has es-
sayod counter offensive, launching
an attack at kronu, seventeen miles
southwest of Orel. This attack was
completely defeated, according to an
official report.
Southeast of Orel the bolsheviki
have suffered disastrous defeat, an
official report says. This battle took
place west of the Khoper river, the
most important tributary of the Don.
1t Is said volunteer troops Of the Dem
kline army are following up their ad-
vantage in this region.
Kolchak troops on the Siberian
front are said to have met with a
reverse. losing quite heavily in Tight
Ting near Kurgan. This report, II
ccn1trmed, would seem to throw
some doubt on recent reports that
The b0IshevtM were rapidly retreat
|'in3 on the sssterps s<vont, ! As late al
Y 'kfirkAns R1s in the hands ot
tho bolsheviki,
In Anticipation OF Fall.
Gen. Vladimiroff, who recently
escaped from Petrograd, has been
named governor general of the city
In anticipation of its fall, said news
| agency dispatch from Helsingfors to-
day.
A British fleet was engaged in an
artillery duel with land batteries al
krasnaya Orka yesterday, the dis
patch added.
Encountered Opposition.
Helsingfors, Finland, Oct. 21.-Gen
| Yudenitch has encountered strong
| bolshevist resistance beyond Pull.
kovo, about seven miles south Of Pet
rograd. He has therefore halted his
advance to concentrate his forces
| while awaiting reinforcements ant
heavy artillery. One hundred guns
reached his army today.
Removed to Moscow.
| Amsterdam, Oct. 21.-Commissar
| Hinovieff, the chief bolshevlk govern.
ment representative in Petrogra d
has withdrawn from that city, takinl
with him all men able to bear arms
according to reports to the German
| press. The official documents ant
cash, it is declared, have been taker
to Moscow.
| Menace New Removed. q.
| HelsIngfors, Oct. 21.-The bolshe
visit forces concentrated at Gdotf, OF
Lake Peipus, which constituted mos
serious threat to the rear of Gen
Yudenitch, have been dispersed. Thi,
removes the menace of an advanc,
against the communication of tn,
ant'boshevist forces now before Pc
trograd, which War Minister Trotzk,
was reported to have declared re
Gently would decide the fate of tn,
city rather than defense Of the oil
capital itself.