WAR ON REDS.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 March 1921, Page 5

WAR ON REDS.

A CONFUSED POSITION, i FIGHTING IN MANY PARTS. CHAOS IN THE CITIES. By, Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 12, 12.40 a.m, London, March 10. The Times’ Riga correspondent states th'at a Bolshevik wireless admits that the situation of the forces at Gatschina, Krasnoeselo and Oranienbaum is worse. Kronstadt troops are advancing, and the Bolsheviks retreating thirteen miles, a regiment of Red cavalry defecting. The revolutionaries assert that food and clothing have arrived at Kronstadt by sea from Western Europe. Negotiations at the Russo-Polish Peace Confer, ence have ceased. It is reported that there is a ferment through Russia. Petrograd was badly damaged from an artillery duel. A Revai message states that 40,000 troops are marching on Petrograd, but their loyalty is doubtful. A Chinese detachment was wiped out in heavy fighting ensuing around the capital. Touchatchofske, a Red general, commenced a vigorous offensive on the Petrograd front on the ninth, and suffered severe losses. Kronstadt is an armed camp seething with activity. There are 40,000 soldiers there, and their morale is excellent. They have a plentiful supply of ammunition and mines. A wireless message states that they will win or perish. Apparently Moscow is in a sorry plight. Twenty thousand laborers are striking. There is no food, all transport being employed in carrying troops. Lenin, at a meeting of the Central Communist Committee, proposed a Coalition 'Cabinet of Socialist Sovieters, but the proposal was rejected. Trotsky has issued urgent orders to send the whole South-West Army to Moscow, but the Commissary telegraphed that he could not trust the troops, and he demanded special instructions.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. PERIL TO THE SOVIET. ITS POWER DECLINING. Received March 11, 5.5 p.m. Paris, March 10. Maklaoff, the last Russian Ambassador to Paris, states that, while unable to guarantee the Soviet’s fall through the present rising, the latest information intimated that the Soviet’s power was gradually declining. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. SOVIET VICTORY EXPECTED. Received March 11, 5.5 p.m. London, March 10. The Daily 'telegraph’s Berlin correspondent says that official circles believe the Soviet will overcome the Kronstadt insurrection without difficulty.— Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. SOVIET RECAPTURE FORTRESS. Received March 11, 5.5 p.m. Stockholm, March 10. The Helsingfors reports, confirming the statement of the Soviet's recapture of Krasnaigorka, state that Trotsky is directing the fortress guns, which are able to defend Petrograd from Kronstadt fire.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.