WAR ON SOVIET.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1921, Page 5

WAR ON SOVIET.

SIEGE OF PETROGRAD. RED FLAG DOWN AT IXOSCOW, REBELS TAKE KRONSTADT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 6, 55 p.m. Riga, March 5. The Soviet Government has proclaimed a state of siege at Petrograd. It is admitted that the revolutionaries imprisoned the Soviet leaders there. The Soviet has distributed stocks of foodstuffs, hoping to stop the Russian revolt. Widespread starvation is inevitable. There are conflicting reports emanating from Russia. Some state the revolution has been definitely suppressed, and others declare that the revolution is extending and that the revolutionaries hold Petrograd and Kronstadt, where the sailors joined the revolutionaries. It is also claimed that thirty thousand troops at Moscow refused to obey an order to march against the revolutionaries. The white flag has replaced the Soviet flag on the Kremlin at Moscow. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PETROGRAD NOW QUIET. FOOD ALLOWED TO ENTER CITY. NEW SOVIET WAR PLANNED. Received March 6, 5.5 p.m. Helsingfors, March 4. The latest telegrams from Russia state that Petrograd is now quiet. The workers’ quarter resembles the buttes chaumonts in Paris after the revolt was crushed in 1871, the bSflies of strikers lying unburied in the streets. Kalenin, president of, the Centre Executive, has fallen into the hands of the rebels; also Sinovieff, president of the Petrograd Municipality. The Soviet Government now permits the inhabitants of Petrograd to buy food in the country and has withdrawn troops previously posted to prevent food coming into Petrograd. The Soviet has summoned representatives of the Communist parties of all the frontier States to Moscow to discuss the desirability of Russian action against the Governments of the frontier States during the coming spring. The Polish, Hungarian, and Roumanian Communists promised to stir up a rebellion when the Russians attack, but the German Communists refused to help.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SOVIET CLAIMS PETROGRAD. ADMITS REBELS HOLD KRONSTADT. Received March 6, 11.5 p.m. Copenhagen. March 5. A proclamation signed by Lenin and Trotsky declares that French agents engineered the Petrograd-Kronstadt revolt, securing the co-operation •of Socialists and Tsarist officers. The proclamation claims that the Petrograd garrison remains loyal and commands the city, which is quiet; but it admits that the revolutionaries hold Kronstadt.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. VIOLENT OUTBREAK AT ODESSA. CONTROL OF CHIEF CITIES. Received March 6, 11.5 p.m. Paris, March 5. The Soviet has ordered the closing of the Roumanian frontier owing to a violent outbreak at Odessa, where the majority of the troops joined the revolting workers. Other reports state that the rebels control the whole of Petrograd and Moscow.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assn. NAVAL MUTINEERS. CONTROL KRONSTADT FORTRESS. Received March 6, 11.5 p.m. Copenhagen, March 5. The Politiken’s Reval correspondent states that 40.000 naval mutineers assisted the White troops to control Kronstadt fortress. They have arrested Admiral Rusmin, commander of the Baltic Forces. It is reported that a general, with 40,000 armed peasants, in command of the Vorenezh and Tanibov areas, is threatening Moscow’s food supplies.-y Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. Received March 6, 11‘.5 p.m. Washington, March 5. The Finnish Legation is officially advised that the Russian revolutionaries have captured the Soviet fortress of Kronstadt. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.