TRAGIC DEFEAT.
HORRORS OF KRONSTADT. TREACHERY OF THE BOLSHEVIKS. PRESENT CONDITIONS APPALLING. I By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. Received April 7, 7.30 p.m. London, April 6. . The Times’ Helsingfors correspondent wires a ghastly story in connection with the capture of Kronstadt. Ten thousand fell in the recent fighting and bodies were piled in stacks, burial being impossible. A glow in the sky over the fortress flicked unceasingly at night as cremation progressed. When Kronstadt fell eight hundred defenders were unable to escape. They were lured to surrender under a Bolshevik promise that they would not be executed, but the gates of the barracks were closed upon them for ever. Women and children enquiring the fate of the missing ften were driven away by Mongol soldiers with rifle butts. They are now allowed in the town, but no rations are available, and the conditions are appalling. The sufferings of those who escaped across the ice were awful. They staggered through deep slush, their trail being dotted with dead and dying.—Times Service.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 April 1921, Page 5
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169TRAGIC DEFEAT. Taranaki Daily News, 8 April 1921, Page 5
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