RUSSIAN REVOLT
FALL OF KRONSTADT. CREMATION OF FALLEN. BY TELEGRAPH —rUESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. LONDON, April b. The “Times” Helsingfors correspondent wires a ghastly story in connection with the capture of Kronstadt. Ten thousand rebels fell there in the recent lighting. Their bodies had to bo piled in stacks, as burial was impossible. A glow in tin l sky over the fortress now flickers unceasingly at night as the cremation process progresses. When Kronstadt fell, the correspondent says S()() defenders were unable to escape. They were lured to surrender under a Bolshevik promise that they would not he executed, but the gates of the barracks were closed upon them for ever. Women and children enquiring the fate of the missing men were driven away by the Mongolian soldiers with rifle butts. They were not allowed in the town, where no rations were available.
Conditions at Kronstadt, adds the correspondent, are appalling. The sufferings of those who escaped across the ice were awlul. They staggered through deep slush and their trail is dotted with dead and dying.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1921, Page 1
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