RUSSIAN REVOLT

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 138, 7 March 1921, Page 5

RUSSIAN REVOLT

STATE OF SIEGE PROCLAIMED AT PETROGRAD IMPRISONMENT OF SOVIET LEADERS By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. (Rec. March 6, 5.5 p.m.) Riga, March 5. The Soviet Government has proclaimed a state of siege at Petrograd. It is admitted that the revolutionaries have imprisoned the Soviet leaders there. The Soviet has distributed stocks of foodstuffs hoping to stop the Russian revolt., Widespread starvation, is inevitable. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn, CONFLICTING REPORTS WHITE FLAG ON KREMLIN AT MOSCOW. (Rec. March 6, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 4. There are conflicting reports emanating from Russia. Some state that the revolution has been definitely suppressed, others that the revolution is extending and the revolutionaries hold Petrograd and Kronstadt, where the Bailors have joined the revolutionaries. It is also stated that thirty thousand troops nt Moscow refused to obey an order to march against the revolutionaries. Tha white flag has replaced the Soviet flag on. the Kremlin at Moscow.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. KRONSTADT FORTRESS CAPTURED MOSCOW’S FOOD SUPPLY THREATENED. (Rec. March 6, 11.5 p.m) , Washington, March 5 The Finnish Legation is advised that the Russian revdarionarios have captured the Soviet fortress at Kronstadt. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Rec. March 6, 11.5 p.m) Copenhagen, March 5. The "Politiken’s” Revel correspondent states that' forty thousand naval mutineers assisted the White troops to control the Kronstad fortress. They have arrested Admiral Rusmin, tlhe commander of the Baltic forces It is reported that a general with forty thousand armed peasants command the Voronezh and Tambov areas, threatening Moscow’s food supplies.—Aus.-N Z Cable Assn. FRENCH AGENTS BLAMED PROCLAMATION BY LENIN AND TROTSKY. (Rec. March 6, 11.5 p.m.) Copenhagen, March 5. A proclamation signed by Lenin and Trot'sky decWit'that French agents engineered the Petrograd and Kronstadt revolt, securing the co-operation of the Socialists and Tsarist officers. The proclamation claims that the Petrograd garrison remains loval and commands tha city, which is quiet, but admist that the revolutionaries hold Kronstadt. — Aus.-N.Z.' Cable Assn. VIOLENT OUTBREAK AT ODESSA ' TROOPS JOIN REVOLTING WORKERS. ZRec. March 6, 11.5 p.m.) Paris, March 5. The Soviet has ordered the. closing of the Rumanian frontier, owing to a' violent outbreak at Odessa, where the majority of the troops have joined the revolting workers Other reports, state that the rebels control the whole of Petrograd and Moscow. —Aps.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ACTION AGAINSFFRONTIER STATES REPRESENTATIVE COMMUNISTS SUMMONED TO MOSCOW. (Rec. March 6, 5.5 p.m.) Helsingfors, March 4. The latest telegrams from Russia state that Petrograd is now quiet. The’ workers’ quarter resembles the buttes chaismonts in Paris after the coiiimunards were crushed in 1871. Bodies of strikers are lying unburied in the streets. Katenin,, President of the Centre Executive, has fallen into the hands of rebels, also Sinovieff, President of the Petrograd municipality. The Soviet Government now permits the inhabitants of Petrograd to buy food in the country, and has withdrawn the troops previously postedto prevent food coming into Petrograd. The Soviet has summoned representatives of the Communist parties of all the frontier States to Moscow to discuss the desirability of Russian- action against the Governments of the frontier States during the coming spring. The Polish, Hungarian, and Rumanian Communists have promised to stir up rebellions when the Russians attack, but the German Communists refused to help.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.