INTERNAL RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1921, Page 3

INTERNAL RUSSIA.

CABLE NEWS

. BY TELEGRAPH'— PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. RUSSIAN TREATIES. (Received this day at 8 a.in.) „ 0 LONDON, March 20. A Moscow wireless confirms that the Russo-Polish, and Russo-Turkish treaties, have been signed. LENIN’S VIEWS CHANGE. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) PARIS, March 20. A message, via Reval, states Lenin, speaking at the Communist Congress at Moscow, admitted he was mistaken in the Bolshevik policy. He had abandoned the hope of a world-revolution. Therefore, Russia must enter into agreements with bourgeois governments, and also encourage capitalists and private enterprise, otherwise Russia could not progress. KRONSTADT’S -POSITION. j (Received this day at 11.80 a.m.) •': LONDON March 2j. j 'lli£ “Times” Stock,holm correspon j dent states Kronstadt is silent, and watched over by Bolsheviks balloons j and surrounded by pickets, to prevent the surrendered garrisons flight to ( Finland where several thousand nave j already sought refuge. Kroslovsky : says the rising was premature. Th t fighters at Kronstadt never exceed. ( six ‘thousand. They had been on duty 1 since the seventh and although utterly exhausted they repeatedly repulsed v Trotsky’s storm troops until they were unable to withstand the massed waves, f The battle ships and strong forts held out after the town .ell, but eventually the men were compelled to scuttle their guns and flee. !

HELSINGFORS, Bareli 19. • Bolsheviks, in superior numbers, attacked Kronstad from two sides, but the main assault was, from Oraniebaum. Kronstad artillery was useless and out- ■ ranged, but machine gnns mowed down hundreds of Bolsheviks, who, however, captured batteries two, three and six, and turned them against the town , which was entered after the third attack. Street fighting continued until Friday. The warship Petropavlovsk is still afloat, but her guns were thrown over- v board. -The fate of the crew is un- f known. t

I ! KUSSO- AFGHAN TREATY. ! (Received This »t 11.30 a.m.) | LONDON, March 20. i According to the “ Manchester Guardian’s ” Reva] correspondent, the Russian Soviet Government and- Afghanistan recently signed a treaty which, while recognising complete Afghanistan independence, practically turns the Afghan Government into an institution subsidised by Russia. The Afghan Government is given an annual I allowance of a million roubles in gold or silver. The most important clause, so far as Great Britain is concerned, binds the contracting parties not to enter into a military or political agreement with a third Power, which would be detrimental to one of the contracting parties.