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Show J Russian Capital and Fortress Captured 1 1 Fall of Petrograd ; j and Kronstadt is u I Being Reported Capture of Russian Capital and Fortress Is Given Credit in Sweden Armies Advancing on Four Sides of the ii Bolshevik Forces--Kiev Said to Have Been II Retaken by the Trotzky Troops, gpff Causing Serious Situation. WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 Reports of the capture of Petrograd and Krcn- ,j stadt by northwestern Russian forces under General Yudonitch wore re- L1!l ceived at the state- department today from an American consular officer in Sweden on the Finnish border. Confirmation Con-firmation of the reports had not been received when the dispatch was sent but it was said they generally v .- Ik credited in Sweden. LONDON, Oct. 17. Via Montreal.--The latest authoritative news record ing the military situation in southern Russia is that the army of General IN Deniklne on the extieme left nf ike line has taken Chernlgoff and Is ad "nM vancing northward along the east bank of the Dnieper rn er toward Go-Tjl Go-Tjl mel. JJ (The right of the Polish army, il (0 was stated la-. t week, rests on th K Dnieper at Gomel about seventy miles from Chernlgoff so that a junction ol isl the two armies would be effective should Denikine reach Gomel). On the right flank the forces of Mi! General Denikino have crossed the Don on a 200-mile front Everywhere the army is driving back the Bolahi - In east Russia the Bolshevik forces are compelled to adopt purelj def-.n-she tactics owing to the great de-mands de-mands upon the Bolshevik effectives,, elsewhere. The recapture of Kiev by the Bot- - shevlsts October 15 announcerl by il, . Bolshevik communique last night, II confirmed, will interfere seriously with General Denikine's moving to- " wards Cornel as such a defeat would K place a Bolshevist force dirpctly in the, rear of the army operating northward from Chernigoff. " Capture of Kronstadt Not Confirmed.' LONDON, Oct- 17. Confirmation of! reports that British naval forces havo I- taken the fortress ol Kronstadt. on I the suit of Finland, wiesl ol P tro-! srad, has not been received at the ad-1 ad-1 p mlralty offices here. Dispatches telling tell-ing of the capitulation of Kronslatii h are not credited, it being paid the British have only light cruiser.- in the ' vicinity which are incapable of successfully suc-cessfully challenging the fortress-Admiralty fortress-Admiralty officials state there was no reason for a British attack on Ibe: place. Great Northern Sails. fcS VLADIVOSTOK. Wednesday, Oct fi, 8. (By the Associated I'iv.j-The , American army transport" Great - Northern sailed from here October 7 with 100 officers and 1400 enli'eJ men returning to the United Stat Bolshevik Troops Concentrate. - WASHINGTON, ci 17. Reports from Stockholm today said the Bol- L sheviki were concentrating the bulk X of their troops for a decisive struggle with General Denikine's I ossack forces in the south. General Denikine's Deni-kine's concentration west ol Vi ronezh and the fall of Kursk were regarded I as threatening seriously the eenlral soviet government at Moscow At 'a recent soviet meeting in PetrQgrnd, r Chief Commissionary Vlnivaiefl de- scribed the situation as of the u 1 1 . .- Berlousness, An official dispatch from Omsk n.:i-d n.:i-d October 14, said that the whole ol ?1hc north Siberian armj rested on the, Tobol river and that the oih r two armies were an average of only five miles from the same river. in the Semlretche from Admiral Kolchak'a forces have advanced, capturing 5000 prisoners I by an accident to withdraw from 'be ' race. Maynard at Omaha F.eld OMAHA, Neb. Oct 17. Lieutenant Maynard arrh ed in Omaha soon after eight o'clock from Wahoo, Neb, where j he had made a forced landing after breaking a crank shaft. Mechanics i worked all night transferring a motor j from anothei plane which had ben i wrecken near "N utan Lieutenant Maynard resumed his flight eastward at 8:47:33 a m. H: iM.uiiiin was working perfectly when ne left the ground at Ak-Sar-Ben field for Des Moines. Spatr Heading Back Bl FPALO, N Y , Oct. 17 Major Carl Spatz, heading the fliers doubling bark from Mineola to San Francis .: 'in the government s reliability and endurance en-durance test, arrived here from Rochester Ro-chester at 9. 16 3.i a. m. Kiel on Return Trip. , MINEOLA, N. Y. Oct. 17 In the race of a strong northwest wind blowing blow-ing forty miles an hour, Lieutenant E I Kiel. In a do Hav iland airplane jv.'ifh Sergeant Frank Mc7r'c as a pass-eiiRer, pass-eiiRer, started on the return to San Francisco in the army's transcontinental transcontinen-tal air race at S -12 12 o'clock lh!s morning. Major Spatz Delays Departure. BUFFALO, N. V, Or i 17 - -Major , Spatz delayed his departure fromj CTevelntifl awaiting authorization from, Washington to make changes in his; schedule, Captain Lowell H. Smith, whose' plane was burned Wednesday nigh', was at Curtis field this morning hut up to 10 3i a. m. was without a new mat nine In which to resume his flight toward San Francisco. A message from Washington authorised author-ised Captain Smith to continue in n Curtis Oriole, but army representatives representa-tives would not assume th? responsibility responsi-bility of accepting the airplane with out receiving official notice to make the purchase. Maynard at Ds Moines. DES MOINES, la. Oct 17. Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Maynard landed at Herring I field at 10; 18 a. m. MINEOLA. N V. Oct. 17. Major Carl Spatz, who reached Buffalo this morning on his return flight to San Francisco, called the local army officials offi-cials by long distance tlephone today and said that he desired to withdraw from the race He expressed a desire to turn his machine over to Captain Lowell II Smith, whose airplane was i burned at Buffalo while beinL' n -paired, to enable him to continue his1 return trip westward from that city. Captain Smith has applied to the air service officials at Washington lor permission per-mission to use Major Spatz" plane and said that he was ready to start as scon as permission was granted. SALT LAKE CITY. Oct. 17. Captain Cap-tain J Donaldson, No. .rn also east-bound, east-bound, who reached Rawlins last nlht, was siill al lhat Control, according to latest reports irom ihre Lieutenant Lieuten-ant J. T. Johli-on. inc. Major E L Lvon. No. 28. and Lieutenant C 11 Gale, No. ;ill westbound, were re ported to have h-fl Rawlins up to 8:3'J this morning CHEYENNE. Wyo . Oct. 17. Captain Cap-tain J O Donaldson, No 50, in the! transcontinental air derby, arrived at Cheyenne at 8:13 O'clock this morn-! lng and left ;it s for the east Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Alexander Pearson, Jr., who remained re-mained in the local control station over night, hopped off for the east at 8:28. |