Notwithstanding the news that Tsarskoe Selo has been retaken by the Bolshevists, General Yudenitch’s optimism is unabated. He sends me a message that he will be in Petrograd within a fortnight. The General’s chief difficulty in maintaining his brilliant advance is lack of transport. The Baltic Railway is now working to Gatchina, where two or three locomotives, not 20 as first reported, were captured, but there are only 10 motor-lorries to serve the whole Army. It further appears that the armoured train captured by the Whites is not the famous “Lenin”, but another train, chiefly used as a travelling printing press. The Bolshevists have considerable reinforcements, and appear to be able to give them sufficient bread. According to prisoners, the Red soldiers receive a pound