Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-10-17
BOL.SHE WIKI ROUTED
AND OREL CAPTURED
Polee Join Battle Against the
Germans; Take Kovno.
RED GOVERNMENT NEAR FALL
Armies Closing in on Petroorad and
Moscow and the Capture Of the
Former City Is Believed
Imminent.


important city of Orel, together with
thousands Of prisoners and enormous
quantities of material, it was an
noupced in adyices received here.
Two batteries of bolshevik artillery
fell into General Denikine's hands.
While 0reI Is 23S miles south of
Moscow, possession of the city will
give General Denikine secure hold
on vast stretches Of territory in old
Russia, as the place is one Of the most
important railway .centers south Of the
present Russian capital.
Cry Christ Is Risen"
General Denikine's communique re-
porting the capture Of Orel reads:
"Orel was entered after many days
of fierce lighting in which several red
divisions We're defeated. The towns
people welcomed the troops. falling on
their knees and calling out Christ is
risenP East of Orel our troops de-
bouched on the line of Preobrazhens-
koe-Turemeff."
! With General Denikine's Cossack
army advancing from the south and
/ the northwestern forces almost within
striking distance of Petrograd, the
soviet government Of Russia is facing
crisis. Bolshevlk headquarters at
PetrograG was closed Thursday, ac-
cording to a dispatch to the Daily Mall
from Reval
Fifty Miles From Petrograd2
Stockholm. Oct 1G.-The northwest
ern Russian army is reported here to
have pushed some 50 miles beyond
hamburg, which it captured reer ntly,
ana to be within 20 miles Of Gatchina,
which is only 30 miles southwest Of
| Petrograd
The taking of 1900 prisoners and
nine guns from the boIsheyiki is an
nounced. Confidence is expressed
among the officers that Petrograd viii
fan before ibis attack.
III fighting The red army Is making
use Of mines to q great extent blow
Ing up the roads everywhere while re-
treating
| An arInored train named Lenine''
and several armoree automobiles, as
well as 50 railaav cars, were among
| me muteriaI captured at hamburg,
The Poles have begun mn offensive
lagaiust the Germano- Russian forces in
the Baltic region, according to a mes
sage received here from Riga. They
are reported 10 have captured Kovno,
go miles northwest Of wilma. near the
| CoprIand border
Savage Fighting Continues.
| Copenhagen. Oct. l6 Savage fight
| ing is stilI going on in the ciry Of Riga
between Lettlsh and Lithuanian troops
and the Germano- Russian army which
entered the western part of the city
last week. Reports reaching here
state that shells have fired portion
of the town and that great damage
has been done the quays and harbors.
Many civilians have been killed during
the battle.
Dispatches received here state that
all the prisoners taken by the Let's
have been Bnyarlans.
Battle Grows More Severe.
J Berlin, Oct Newspaper dis
patches received here from Mitau re-
port continued fighting between the
Germano-Russian and Lettish troops,
the engagement growing in severity
with the arrival of 5000 Esthonian re-
| endorsements.
The messages report that the Ger
mano-Russian forces on Tuesday oc-
cupied Dunamunde, the port at the
mouth of the Duna on the south side
i az the river and Bolderaa. just to the
south Of Dunamunde
Russians and Germans Clash.
London, Oct, I6-The western Rus
sian central council has ouSted the
German authorities at Mitau. replac-
ing them by a regime headed by a Rus
| sian governor general named Seheide-
mann. according 10 wireless dispatch
received here from Berlin 4 state Of
slegc has boon declared MT Mitau
General Eherhardt has invited the
Lithuanian governments 10 send dele
gates TO a conference To he held ut Sat.
kany aud the invitation has been ac-
cented, the dispatch declares
u. S. Not IN Blockade Of Russia.
Paris. Oct. 1G-The United States
did not Join with TIE entente powers
/ ir asking Germany 20 cooperate in a
blocsade of soviet RussiG, and the
Amer can delegation here does NOT adj
nit any american participation Ia on
actual blockade against Russia in the
Halric IS the United states is unwill-
ing 70 approve the principle Of a peace
ful blockade, and none of the allied
! and assaciated powers is actually ut
! war With the soviet government.
] Killed in Auto Crash.