SOVIET RUSSIA.
HOEEOES AT KEONSTADT.
(By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) . ("Tho TinVe."l (Received April 7th. 7.30 p.m.) . LONDON, April 6. The Hclsingfors correspondent of "The Times'.' sends a ghastly story in connexion with tho capturo of Kronstadt. Ten thousand men fell in the recent fighting. Their bodies . were piled in stacks, burial being impossible. A glow in the sky ovor the fortress flickers unceasingly at night as the cremation of the bodies prognoses. When Kronstadt fell eight hundred defenders were unable to escape. They were lured to surrender Under a Bolshevik promise that they would not he executed, hut the gates of the barracks closed upon them for ever. . Women a,nd children enquiring the fate of missin o- men wer» driven away by Mongol sofdiers witrfriflc butts.. They are not allowed in' the town, but no rations are available. The. conditions are appalling. The sufferings of those who escaped across the ice were awful. They staggered through de-."j) slush, and the trail was dotted with dead and dying. ,
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17114, 8 April 1921, Page 7
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166SOVIET RUSSIA. Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17114, 8 April 1921, Page 7
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