Show u u u u u u QUiT QUiTu n RUSS SOVIET OVIT fO FORCES CS UN ON DEf DEFENSE f Bolshevik vik Troops Are Being Slowly vly Driven Back t to Last st Defenses ses In i 1 Fl Front nt of of Petrograd d dI I I By Byl Associated Press Presa I AMSTERDAM Oct 21 Commis Commis Commissary sary the chief Bolshevik government r representative pr in in Petrograd Petrograd Petrograd Petro Petro- grad has withdrawn from that city taking with him all men able to bear arms accord according ng to reports to the German German German Ger Ger- man press The official documents and cash it is declared have been taken to Moscow I Finland Oct 21 General has encountered I strong Bolshevist resistance beyond about seven miles south of Petrograd He has ther therefore fore halted II his advance to concentrate his forces while aW awaiting reinforcements and heavy artillery One hundred guns reached his army today ONDON Oct 21 Forces For Forces of L LONDON I the soviet Russian government government government govern govern- ment arc are being slowly I back to their last defense in in front of t Petrograd General has captured I about seven miles mUes south of or the city and less less- than eight miles to the southwest according to unofficial il I reports Bolshevik troops are apI ap- ap j I patently formed along the Petro Petrograd Petrograd- rarI- rarI Luga I railroad where whore they mo fire stubbornly contesting each attempt I of the forces to drive r e. e east j t- t ward The anti reached a a. point near Luga Lugs last week weel but sins sin's in I that time there has been on indication Indica- Indica tion that the railroad has hns Seen been ciO st l lat at any point south bouth of i hil which I iv adl admitted to be In the hands of the the arm army Soviet forces seem to be hol holding the coastal region west of d. d a dispatch telling of a aduel aduel aduel duel between an Bolshevik anti fleit and the fort tort at Gorka A great fires fire accompanied by an explosion exp ex- ex p was observed after the battle but it Is said it may have be ben n n at Oranienbaum a village about twelve t miles mlles east of ot Gorka Gorta KIEV ATTACKED Kiev which was occupied bv by Bolshevik BolI Bolshevik Bol Bol- troops last week has been at attacked attacked attacked at- at I tacked by General Co tos sl sacks who have forced the Reds out of or most of ot the city Fighting was teas s I still going on there last Friday Frida I f Nearer the center of ot General Dem- Dem kines kine's line the soviet armies have Ye c os- os I I sayed a counter offensive launching an attack at seventeen miles milf southwest of Orel This attack w was waa completely defeated according to an official report Southeast of or Orel the iki have ha suffered a disastrous defeat an official report says This battle took place west of ot the river tho most Important tributary of the Don I It 11 Is said that volunteer er troops of the army are following up their then advantage In this region KOLCHAK MEETS REVERSE Kolchak troops on the Siberian front aVe are said to have met with a a. reverse losing quite heavily in fightIng fighting fighting fight fight- ing near This report if confirmed confirmed con con- firmed would seem to throw some doubt on recent reports that the Bol- Bol are rapidly retreating on the tho eastern front As late as October 9 Kurgan was In the hands of the Bolshevik The Tho fortress of ot Kronstadt was still in the hands of the Bolshevik Sunday Sun- Sun days day according to a dispatch to the I Daily Dally Mail from Finland from which place place- the rd rfd flag flug WAS Wl then visible at tho the masthead of ot tho tin battleship which h is row ro- Continued on page 7 i C TROOPS T TRO ROO OPS P S SNOW NOW ENCIRCLE PETROGRAD Fall of Russian City Is Believed to Be Certain Continued from page 1 ported to have been raised since she was torpedoed by the British In August and now Is lying In the Kronstadt Kronstadt Kronstadt Kron- Kron stadt harbor i The dispatch to the Mail Mall states that I factories at Kronstadt were working I Sunday and that seaplanes which I. I bombed the fortress that day were I fired on b by antiaircraft guns The reported raising of ot the tho white flag at Kronstadt Friday is as yet unexplained I OREL RETAKEN I It Is pretty generally assumed here her I that Petrograd Is isolated and its fall faU is a matter of a short time but the position is obscure with the exception ex- ex exception ex ex- of ot official statements that the railroad to Moscow has been cut and that besiegers are within only a few tew I miles of ot the city It Is said they are holding among other places PulI Pul- Pul the site of the famous imperial observatory which overlooks Petrograd Petrograd Petro- Petro I I grad Orel has been retaken by the Bol- Bol who also have defeated nineteen nineteen nineteen nine nine- teen regiments of ot General Mamontoff Mamontoff's Mamon- Mamon torts tort's s armby outside of ot according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to a a. wireless dispatch sent lout out by bj the soviet government in Moscow STOCKHOLM I Oct 21 The The United I States minister here I I. 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Morris has received a request by telegraph from General Premier I of ot the government of ot northwest northwest north north- west Russia urging the United States 1 to III send food tood and other necessities for Cor Petrograd which General said he expected to take today The request was waa forwarded to Washington Premier dispatch asserted assert assert- ed that General troops on Saturday last were only five miles from Petrograd I WAY IS OPENED Finland Oct 21 21 The Bolshevik forces concentrated at on Lake which constituted constituted constituted I a most serious threat to threat to the rear of ot General has been dispersed dis dIs- persed This removes the menace of ot otan an advance against the communications of the Bolshevist anti-Bolshevist forces now before Petrograd which War Minister was reported to have declared recently would decide the fate tate of ot the city rather than the defense of ot the tho 01 old 1 capital itself TO FEED PETROGRAD WASHINGTON W Oct 21 The The re request request request re- re quest from General that thal the I United States undertake the tho shipment of ot supplies to Petrograd as soon as ItI it Ihas I has been captured has been received from American Minister Morris at Stockholm and probably will be acted upon very soon it was said Mid today at atthe atthe atthe the state department The text of ot the message was not I made public |