RUSSIAN REVOLT

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 144, 14 March 1921, Page 5

RUSSIAN REVOLT

FRENCH WARSHIPS GIVE AID GREAT QUANTITIES OF STORES SEIZED By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. (Rec. March 13, 5.5 p.m.) Stockholm, March 11.

Telegrams from Copenhagen state that a French squadron entered Reval harbour, sent a detachment ashore, and seized vast quantities of stores which were awaiting transport to the Bolsheviks in Russia. It is believed that another French squadron of light cruisers has gone to Kronstadt in order to assist the rebels against the Soviet. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ' CONTINUATION OF FIGHTING REBELS AGAINST DICTATORSHIP OF MOSCOW. (Rec. March 14, 0.5 a.m.) ♦ London, March 13 The fighting in the region of Petrograd and Kronstadt continues. The rebels, chiefly Bolsheviks, are opposed to the dictatorship of the Moscow leaders, but favour freely elected Soviets. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RAILWAYS DESTROYED London, March 11. Helsingfors reports that shells from Kronstadt destroyed the railway between Marienn’baum and Krasnayagorka, and also between Oranienbo-im and Pet-rograd.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. WORK OF REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISTS NEW GOVERNMENT TO BE FORMED. 9 Paris, ’ March 11. There is now no doubt that the insurreotion in Russia was the work of the Revolutionary Socialists, most of whose leaders have left Paris for Reval, where .they intend to form a new Russian Government immediately. Petrograd is entirely in the hands of the insurgents. Gutehoff, the Russian R" 1 Gross Director, has cabled to President Harding asking for ai supply of food and money for the Whites, whose success, he says, depends entirely on their power of enduring hunger longer than tho Moscow Government. He also asks Mr. Harding to place six thousand tons of foodstuff? belonging to Mr. Hoover s organisation in Finland, at the disposal of Koslowsky’s temporary Government. at Kronstadt.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. REVOLUTIONARY MANIFESTQ. ■ London, March 11. The "Daily Telegraph's” Berlin correspondent states that the Kronstadt revolutionaries have issued a manifesto, which states: “We are fighting for the freedom of personality, which has been crushed by Communists, against the violence of the bureaucracy and the people s commissaries, the enslavement of the working masses by the trade unions, and against the mass execution of peasants; and, lastly, for Russia. We have raised the banner of the third revolution. Lite under the Communists is more terrible than death."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.