RUSSIAN REVOLT

Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1921, Page 2

RUSSIAN REVOLT

11V TEIjEGRAPU—PRESS ASSN., COPYKIOSt. | AUSTRALIAN' AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. , NORTH WEST RISING. LONDON, March 1-1. Riga advices state that TonchatofFiskis has been” relieved of the Soviet command owing to three serious reverses. Trotsky has personally taken command of the Kronstadt front, with his headquarters at Sestrortzk. Most of the PetVograd Communists fear fresh attacks, and armoured trains are patrolling the coast between . Petrograd and Sestrorotzk.

CONFUSING REPORTS. LONDON, March 14. Recent reports of the Russian revolution continue to he contradictory, hut it seems clear that the rebels are fighting strongly. Reports received in Paris state that the revolt has extended, to White Russia and the Ukraine, where hands of anti-Bolsheviks hold sway. ! Advices from Moscow state that nuj melons plots to murder M. Lenin re- ! suited in the formation of an inner Red Fife Guard of 3000 picked Communists armed. Visitors to the Kremlin who were arrested, admitted they had instructions from the Central Organisation for Liberation to murder Soviet members. FUR I ITER RISING. LONDON, March 14 News of a Ukraine rising has been received from Poland. It is stated that we Ukrainian General Machno is in command of operations, and has captured Ekaterinsslav. Troops are advancing towards Crimea. Members of Soviet Committees taken at Elisa be tgrad wore shot or hanged by the revolters. SPREAD OF REVOLT ALLEGED. KRONSTADT IN FLAMES. ■ _ LONDON, March 14 The “Times” Kovno correspondent states that the anti-Soviet revolution is spreading in the Ukraine and in Southern Siberia. He says—Petrogr.'id apparently is still a storm centre, and the rebels are fighting there strongly. It is variously reported that they have established a Social Revolutionary Committee, which is in communication with Kronstadt, and also that the workers have proclaimed a general strike, and are demanding the convocation of a properly constituted National Assembly. Kronstadt was shelled throughout Friday from Krasneyagoika, and also from Pctrograd and Organienbaum. Kronstadt is still burning. The correspondent adds that deserters from Ivrasneyagorka describe the Reds’ Chinese forces as compelling the soldiers to man half demolished defences by threatening to turn machine guns upon them. ANOTHER STORY. LONDON, March 14. Kovno advices state that the Moscow Soviet’s have resolved that, as a world revolution is not now maturing, therefore* relations with foieign capitalists States are indispensable, even at the sacrifice of fundamental principles. 8 TURNING REBEL. (Received This Day at 5.30 a.m.) HELSINGFORS, .March 13 It is reported that General Budenv s cavalry have been ordered northward, but they joined the rebels and assisted in capturing Orel. TROTSKY BEATEN BACK. (Received This Day at 5.40 a.m.) PARIS, March 13. Kronstadt rebels beat back Trotsky’s picked troops who made repeated at-' tempts to recapture the island. One whole regiment of Reds crossed the ice to join the rebels.' Kronstadt has declared itself an independent Soviet Republic. POLAND AND RUSSIA. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) RIGA, March 15. The Russian-Polish peace conference decided that Poland’s share of Russia’s gold he thirty millions of gold roubles, plus a similar sum in respect of rolling stock remaining in Poland. RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN ROME. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) ROME, March 13 Yorgwski, the new Soviet Ambassador, has arrived, but the Tsar’s former representative refuses to band over the Embassy. MOSCOW CONDITIONS. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.Y COPENHAGEN, March 14. The situation at Moscow is reported to bo extremly critical, owing to the complete absenoe of coal and famine is I at the door.