RUSSIAN REVOLT

Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1921, Page 2

RUSSIAN REVOLT

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AUSTRALIA-' 7 AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. FRENCH JOIN REBELS. LONDON, March 12. iStockhiolm reports that telegrams from Copenhagen state that a From h naval squadron has entered Reval h n • hour, in the Russian Baltic provinces. It. sent a detachment ashore, w*u> seized vast stores that were awaiting transport to the Bolslieviki in Russia. It is believed that another Freftch squadron of light cruisers has gone tp Kronstadt. It does so in order to assist the rebels against the Soviet. REBEL MANIFESTO. LONDON, March 12. s The “Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent states that the Kronstadt revolutionaries have issued a manifesto in which they sav: —“We are fighting for freedom of personality, which lias been crushed by the Communists, and against the violence of Bureaucracy and the people’s commissaries; also against the enslavement of the working classes by the Trades Unions; and further ! against mass execution of peasants and lastly for Russia We have raised the banner <>f the Third Revolution. Life under th* 0 Communists is more terrible than death!”

A STORY FROM FRANCE. PARIS, March 10. There is now no doubt the insurrection in Russia is the work of Revolutionary Socialists, most of whose leaders have left Paris for Reval, where they intend to form a new Russian Go r vermnent, immediately that Petrograd is entirely in the hands of the insurgents. A WHITES APPEAL. PARIS, March 12. GutnchofT, a Russian Red Cross Director has cabled to President Harding. asking for a. supply of food and money for tb 0 “Whites,” whose success, he claims, entirely depends upon their power of enduring hunger longer than the Moscow Soviet Government. Giit (: hoff also asks Prsident Harding to place fiOOO tons of food-stuffs belonging to the Hoover Famine Relief Organisation, in Finland, at the disposal of Koslowskv’s temporary Government at Kronstadt fortress. .