WAR ON REDS.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1921, Page 5

WAR ON REDS.

NEW LEADER OF REVOLT, .ALARM IN PETROGRAD. SOVIET SYSTEM IN PERIL. Br Telembh-Preu ilm _Cowrlrtl. Received March 9, 55 p.m. Stockhqjm, March 8. Koslewsky has sent an ultimatum to the Soviet, the terms of which are unknown. Krasnaya, Gerks and smaller forts bombarded Kronstadt and suddenly turned the guns towards Petrograd, into which Kronstadt’s twelve-inch guns are firing sixty shots a milfute. Petrograd is greatly alarmed. The streets are deserted and cafes and theatres, closed. Workmen forcibly mobilised in defence of the city, revolted and attacked the Soviet troops and gained possession of the greater part of the A wireless message states a duel is -ensuing between Moscow and Kronstadt. Lenin is trying to induce the seamen to turn against their leaders. Koslowsky replied that Kronstadt is an independent republic and demands the deposition of the Soviet and the formation of a constituent assembly. Koslowsky was most prominent as an artillery staff officer of the Czarist army and a famous mathematician for years. He was a colonel during war time and has great energy and daring. He is cut out for a military dictator. Hoi£ he controlled the most unruly elements of the seamen and workmen is simply amazing. His discipline is extraordinary. A later message states Koslowsky, in a completely victorious artillery duel, silenced the minor forts. He is now preparing to march on Petrograd. The Soviet councils are carrying out reprisals in the western villages.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. THE MOSCOW OUTBREAK. WORKERS HEAVILY BOMBARDED. Helsingfors, March 8. During the Moscow outbreak artillery dd the hills overlooking the city opened a terrible bombardment on the workmen’s quarters. Several hundreds were killed and a Jarge number wounded. The bombardment was due to the workmen’s leaders exiling a general strike and demanding'' a Constituent Assembly. Over a hundred thousand are now on strike in Moscow. The Soviet -troops encountered the Kronstadt forces at Vasilyostrov. A regiment attempting to outflank the rebels marched on to the ice, whereupon the battleship Petropavolvak fired, smashing the surrounding ice, and thus annihilating the regiment. The bombardment of Petrograd by the revolutionaries is in full swing. The revolutionaries informed Tehitcherin that the rebellion was not an officers’ revolt, but a popular movement aimed at securing a new Government. It would defend the peasants and fight the Soviet to the last.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. TWO TYPES OF REVOLUTION. FIRES IN PETROGRAD. London, March 7. The Daily Express states that the Petrograd and Moscow revolutions must be differentiated. The former represents a movement towards the Right and liberty, the latter out-Bolshevises Lenin. Reports from the frontier state that heavy gunfire is audible in the direction of Kronstadt, which is replying to the bombardment. The Copenhagen and Riga correspondents of the Daily Telegraph confirm the reports that portions of Petrograd are on fire. During the Petrograd fighting the Reds turned the artillery from an armored car upon •workers. The Soviet leaders are becoming increasingly anxious as to the loyalty of the troops to the Soviet, is everywhere uncertain. AN OFFICIAL VERSION. New York, March 8. An official message from Moscow, Hated March 3, which has been received by the paper “Soviet Russia/’ states that all is quiet in Moscow and Petrograd. The mutineers in Kronstadt are fighting amongst themselves and a complete collapee of the insurrection is expected. JAPAN AND AMERICA. THE PACIFIC MANDATE. By T«lesraph.-»-Pre»B Assn.—CopyrlfM. Washington, March 8. The State Department has revealed the text of the mandate granted to [Japan over the islands of the Pacific, jwhich the latter accepted with the reservation that Japanese citizens should not be subjected to discriminatory or disadvantageous treatment in other mandated, territories. It is understood contention referred particularly to the territories mandated to Australia. Officials are particularly interested in the Japanese mandate, since it specifically provides that the consent of the Council of the League shall be required for any modification of the terms.— Cable Assn. JAPAN’S ARIMY AND NAVY. DEFENCE APPROPRIATIONS INCREASED. Tokio, March 7. Additional budgets, appropriating 60,000,000 dollars for the Japanese and navy, have been introduced In the Diet. The Tokio newspaper Nichi-Nichi-Shimbu says the United States fortification of Guam seriously interferes (with Japan's plan of defence and it regards the American action as a threat Against Japan.—Aus.-NX Cable Assn.