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Show Anti-Bolshevists Advance on Petrograd II CITY OF OREL 1$ 1 SEIZED j Gen. Denikine Captures jj City and Thousands j II of Prisoners. 1 ARMY IS ADVANCING I Confident Petrograd Will Soon Fall Before Anti- I Bolshevist Attack. q m LONDON". Oct. 15 General Deni fML kine's anti Bolshevik army has cap I Jr tured the important ciry of Orel to- II gether with thousands of prisoner and enormous quantities of material it was announced in advices receive! s fl here today. U9 Two batteries of Bolshevik artillerv JJ fell into General Denlkine's bands. ?s While Orel is 238 miles soutn of f l Moscow, possession of the city will ' J 'ive Genera! Denikine a secure hold k on vast stretches oi territory in old Mi Russia, as the place is one of the r nj most important railway centers ?Otlt'u FM of the present Russian capital. WB Army Is Advancing LONDON. Oct. 15. With General lenikines Cossack army advancing U from the south and the northwestern LljH Russian forces almost within strikin: distance of Petrograd. the soviet gov- f ill eminent of Russia appears to be facing fac-ing a crisis. Bolshevik headquarters J'l at Petrograd were closed last Thuis- yfllj day. according to a dispatch to the jiil Daily Mail Trom Reval. I The aorthwt -tern Russian army Laa apparently crashed through the Bol- Uijj Bhevlk lines over a wide front. Pskov has been captured and it is believed iUl that the forces under General Yuden- JjljT itch also have taken the important town Of Luga, about S. miles southwest south-west of Petrograd. The captur--" ot l Yainburg, 75 miles from Petrograd, IM reported on Monday, and latest dis- WN patches indicate the line of advance WIJ to be nearly 125 miles In length. ati n the south the Denikine troops appear to have approached quite nea lEJj the 'own of Tula, which a considered the key to Moscow from that sid" A Srlfl dispatch received here says that if fjfjM Tula falls to the Cossacks, the Bol- B shevik commissaries will flee Into W Turkestan, taking advantage of a gap 4jH between the Denikine and Kolchah kill forces in the Volga valley. Ijll |