RUSSIAN REVOLT.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 57, 8 March 1921, Page 5

RUSSIAN REVOLT.

LED BY SAILORS. CAPTURE OF PETROGRAD. REDS GATHERING FOR ATTACK (By Cable.—rress Association. -Copyright.) (Received 11.30 a.m.) • PARIS. March 7. Reports from Yiborg state that a number of sailors landed ;u Kronstudt. and occupied the small port of Oranienbaum, driving out the Bolsheviks. Another portion of the fleet ascended the Nova, sailors landed at Petrograd and attacked the "Red?." Many of the garrison joined the. sailors, and then the remainder of the '"Reds"' withdrew to Gatchina, where Trotsky and the chief 801- --. shevik command are concentrating forces to march on Potrograd. Extensive fires nre rroorted in the capital.—l A. and X.Z. Cable.) KRONSTADT THE CENTRE. ! SOVIET STILL DOMINANT. I LONDON, March 7. [ Sensational reports of the spread of I auti-.Soviet risings in Russia continue to I lie received, but thero are obvious ditni unities in the way of gauging the real i situation. Stockholm ad\ ices state that the Swedish newspapers regard as a reliaMe ; fact, tiie news that the Social Revolutionaries iiold Kronetadt, which ia tho centre of revolutionary organisations. ; Many fleet commissaries have been i arrested. I Messages from Moscow state" that the Soviet (Government has started a reign of tenor, and is making wholesale arr«ett>. The .lews fear a recurrence of I pogroms. j A message from Holsingfors states j that the aim of the insurrection is the j establishment of a constituent assembly. ■ Tho Stockholm correspondent of the ! "Times" states thut it is believed there ion good authority (hat the Soviet Government still dominates the situation and ,is btrrnuouely making efforts to calm I the populace and suppress risings. The i workmen have returned the factories to I the control of tho military, and the fiovI eminent, has sent £10.000,000 in gold I abroad to buy foodstuffs, promising the I peasants not to deprive corn. The revolting seamen at Kronetadt threaten that they will march on Potrograd in procession, and that the j*uns of the ironclad Petropavlevsk will be trained on the city. An ice-hresiker is preparing the way. The Government has broken the railways and isolated Kronntndt. l.enin and Trotz-ky have issued a manifesto to Bolshevik patriots calling on them to assist the Government in punishing the rebels. — I Renter.)