RUSSIAN REVOLT

Hokitika Guardian, 5 March 1921, Page 3

RUSSIAN REVOLT

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. THE RUSSIAN REBELLION. STOCKHOLM, March 3. While the anti-Bolshevik revolt in Russia seems spreading throughout the country, where the peasants are opposing armed resistance to the seizure nt corn and being forced to cut and cart wood, the situation in Petrogrnd is calmer. Fresh troops from the north were helped by artillery, which swept the streets and sternly suppressed the rebellion at Kronstadt and sent back tbo sliipo and workmen were driven back to the factories. Kniewin. President of the Soviet Executive Committee admitted that viola had broken out in several provinces. It is significant that tin; Swedish commercial delegation which, under the reciprocate trade agreement was due to leave for Russia, has been forbidden to enter, it is reported, because of the disinclination to allow foreigners to see what is actually happening. . ( WHAT AN \ USTR Al.l AN SAW. c LONDON. .March *2 1 Mr Thomas Skeybiil, a \ ietorian, \ has just returned trom Russia, after r a three months’ adventurous tour I through Pctrograd, Moscow and Kiel, lie reached Delrwgrnd, sleighing the ( frozen Baltic, and using a forged pass- s port as a Swedish engineer. He man- y aged to feed himself by giving Russian a friends English and American gold, j which lie used as a bribe to peasants to r supply dairy produce and other foods. 1 Fifteen pounds sufficed to make Skoy- c hill a rouble millionaire. He states the workers in Russia are paid in goods. , Soviet food kitchens in Retrograd alone j are supplying 300,000 workers. Everyone must work for the Government, or starve. Workers no longer control factories. Each factory is now run by | a Committee of three, including Bourgeoise, who are the technical experts, also representative of tiv workers and representative of the local Soviet. Ty- <• pints is no longer raging. Everyone t.l who had it are now immune. Practie- e ally all the girls in Retrograd have T their liair cut, showing that they had ei typhus. The stories ot nationalisation vv of women are untrue. Moscow is the soul of tiie Soviet system. Flip chief political elements are the Extieiue Left, led by M. Zinovief, who is against trade with any country, or conciliation [ of any kind. Lenin and Trotsky load the middle group, and favour conciliation, even '-with the anti-fßolslieviks. Lenin even favours summoning a Constituent Assembly. The Extreme Right rr is led by M. Lunacliarliky, Commission- it or for Educntioit, and generally the ai supporters of Lenin. Mr Skoyliill con- si siders there is no chance of Bolshevism ly breaking down. There is nothing to d, take,its place in Russia. Mr Skeybiil is going to America on a short lecture in tour and thence lie goes to Australia, fi