WAR ON REDS.
RED FORCES DESERT. London. March 17. Finnish reports state that 5000 Reds went over to the Kronstadt rebels during an attack. A Moscow wireless admits the loss of several thousand, killed. ATTACK ON KRONSTADT. Paris, March 17. The Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune says that Trotsky dispatched 40,600 Chinese to carry out a swift night attack on Kronstadt. Verey lights revealed the attackers crossing the ice ♦and the revolutionaries poured out upon them a withering fire from machineguns. Tlion the Chinese!began, tif flee. Soviet troops behind them fired on the Asiatics, dotting the ice in the gulf with dead. Captured Chinese declare that the Soviet authorities starved them for two days and then gave out heavy rations of rum with the promise of food and permission to loot in the event of their entering Kronstadt.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. •
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 March 1921, Page 8
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