RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1921, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ANTI-SOVIET RISINGS. REPORTED TO BE SPREADING. AX UNCERTAIN SITUATION. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, Received March 8, 1.20 a.m. London, March 6. Sensational reports of the spread of the anti-Soviet risings in Russia continue, but thefe are obvious difficulties in gauging the real situation. Stockholm advices state the papers regard as reliable the fact that the social revolutionaries hold Kronstadt, which is the centre of the revolutionary organisations. Many fleet commissaries were arrested. Messages from Moscow state the Soviet has started a reign of terror, making wholesale arrests. The Jews fear a recurrence of pogroms. A message from' Helsingfors states the aim of the insurrection is the establishment of a constituent assembly. The Times’ Stockholm correspondent states it is believed here on good authority that the Soviet still dominates the situation and is strenuously making efforts to calm the populace and suppress the risings. The workmen have returned the factories to the control of the military The Government sent ten millions in gold abroad to buy foodstuffs, promising the peasants not to deprive them of corn. The revolting Kronstadt seamen threaten to march on Petrograd in a procession. The ironclad Peteropaulovsk’s guns will be trained on the city, and an ice-breaker is preparing the way. The Government has broken the railwavs and isolated Kronstadt, Lenin and Trotsky have issued a manifesto to Bolshevik patriots calling on them to assist the Government in punishing the rebels. Koslosky, an arUllery commander, seized the fleet, arrested the commissary, and put the president of the Soviet councij in chains. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. REDS FORCED FROM MOSCOW. London March 7. Reval reports state that fighting again occurred at ‘Moscow on Thursday between the insurgents and the Reds and the latter were forced to abandon the town. Only the Lettish volunteers and the International Legion remain to protect the Kremlin. The Government has left for NishniNovgorod, where Lenin is expected.