FALL OF KRONSTADT
A GHASTLY STORY APPALLING SUFFERINGS OF ESCAPEES (By Telegraph'-Freei Aeaoototlou-OonyrlaiwJ (Reo. April 7, 7.30 p.m.) London, April 6. "The Times" Helsingfors correspondent telegraphs a ghastly story in connection with tho capture of Kronstadt. Ten thousand fell in the recent fighting. The bodies were piled in stacks and burned, burial being impossible. The glow iff the sky over the fortresses flickers unceasingly at night as the cremation progresses. When Kronstadt fell, eight hundred of the defenders were unable to escape. They were lured to surrender under a Bolshevik promise that they would not be executed, but the gates of the 'barracks closed upon them for ever. Women and children enquiring the fate of missing men were driven away by Mongol soldiery with their rfle butte. They are now allowed in the town, but no rations are available. The conditions are appplling, the sufferings of those who escaped across the ice being awful. They staggered through deep slush, the trail being dotted with dead and dying. —The Times.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 165, 8 April 1921, Page 5
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169FALL OF KRONSTADT Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 165, 8 April 1921, Page 5
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