LIFE UNDER THE SOVIET.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 61, 12 March 1921, Page 7

LIFE UNDER THE SOVIET.

MORE TERRIBLE THAN DEATH. REVOLUTIONARY MANIFESTO. ENSLAVEMENT OF THE MASSES. (By (.'able.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received I.M iuii.) LONDON, March 11. The Berliii correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" states that the E ions tad l revolutionaries have issued a manifesto which states: "We are lighting for freedom of personality, whicii is crushed by the Communists, against the violence a.id bureaucracy of the People s Commissaries, against the enslavement of the working masses by the trades unions, also against, the mass execution of peasants, and lastly for Kussia. We have raised the banner of the third revolution. Life under the Communists is more terrible than death." Helsingiors repurts state that Klonstadt shells destroyed the railway between Marienbaum and Krasnayagorka, anil also between Oranienbaum and Petrograd. to the south and west of the city.—(A. anil N.Z. Cable.) A GROWING REVOLT IN THE PETROGRAD AREA. MOSCOW IN SORRY PLIGHT. LONDON, March 11. The correspondent of the "Times" a I Riga states that n Soviet wireless mes sage admits that the situation of the Soviet forces nt Gatchina, Krasnoye Selo and Oranienbaum, to the west and south of I'et-ognid, is worse. The Kronstadt troops arc advancing, and the Soviet forces arc retreating 13 miles. A regiment of Soviet cavalry deserted to the revolutionaries. Tt is asserted that food and clothing have ..rrred at Kronstad; by sea from Western Europe. Negotiations at the Russo-Polish pr-ace conference have ceased.

Reports from Abo. Finland, state that there is ferment throughout Russia, l'etrograd has been severely damaged by artillery fire.

A Reval message states that 40,000 Soviet troops arc marching on l'etrograd, but their loyalty is doubtful. A Chinese detachment was wiped out in heavy fighting near Petrograd.

Touch-tchofsky, the commander of the Soviet forces, commenced a vigorous offensive on the l'etrograd front on March 0, and suffered severe losses.

Kronstadt is an armed camp seething with activity. It contains 40.000 soldiers and sailors, and their moral is excellent. They have a plentiful supply of ammunition and mines. A wireless message from Kronstadt states they will win or perish.

Apparently Moscow is in a sorry plight. Twenty thousand labourers are striking, and there is no fool. AH transport is employed in carrying tro.'pa

Lenin, at a meeting of the Central Communist (ommittco proposed a coalition Cabinet of Revolutionary Socialists and Bolsheviks, but the proposal was rejected. Trotsky issued an urgent orler thai i'lC- entire South-west Army should li-.-sent to Moscow, but the commanler ti'egr. plied that he could not tr is. Ihe t.i ps. nnd demanded special instruclionr. — ("Times.*')