Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-10-28 | Page 2 | Hear Report of Big Naval Fight

"bis Era Yudenitch Admits Setback in Plan to Capture Petrograd. VIBOKG, Finland, Oct. 27. (By the Associated Press.) More than thirty British -warships, including in-cluding four light cruisers, are at Bjorko, a short distance southeast of Viborg, where also is situated a large British airdrome. The vessels ves-sels are protected from Bolsheviki submarines by a net of islands a thousand yards apart. A correspondent corre-spondent learns that British airplanes air-planes from Bjorko have been bombing Kronstadt almost daily for three months. VIBOKG, Finland, Oct. 127, (By tho Associated 1'rcss.) Reports were received re-ceived here today that a naval battle occurred off Kronstadt yester.by. The reports, which we no unconfirmed, (!avc j no details. While passing die island of ljorkos, off 'the Stvedish const, yesterday, the Associated Press correspondent saw the British monitor Erebus and several destroyers de-stroyers putting to r.?a. IOXDOX, Oct. 27.T11C British war office in a conmiuniipie issued this evening, eve-ning, setting forth the military situation situa-tion in Kussia up to G p. m. Sunday, admits that the Bolsheviki defending I'ctrogr.-id have recaptured Krasuoye-Selo Krasuoye-Selo and I'avlovsk. HKl.slxrd'OUS, Oct. 27. CeiK-ral Yudenitch, commander of the Xorth Kusshtn army, acknowledged tmlnv that the difficulties of his campaign for Petrograd w.ere increasing, owing to strong Bolshevik rein t'orcenieii 1 s :ind th"ir cl'levis lo lvfnkc Tsarskoe-Selo. (ieeernl Yudenirch 's Troops, however, have captured (iurila, four miles north of Krasnoye -Sdo. The situation is not clear as to the other parts of the lino, w licre, the general gen-eral asserts, the Bolsheviki .are fighting fight-ing like ' ' madmen. ' ' Recapture of Ts..rsk(.."Srl,-, was claimed liy tie1 Bolsheviki in their com-inunioue com-inunioue of October :M. .