PETROGRAD ENCIRCLED BY TROOPS
GOVERNMENT SEEKING A
SETTLEMENT
STREET FIGHTING IN MOSCOW.
(UNirzD rnsss association.—copirioht.)
(IBSTKAMAH 'NEW ZEALAND CAILB ASSOCIATION.) HELSIJfGFORS, 26th February.
The workers who revolted against the Central Soviet have -occupied all the public buildings in Petrograd, which the Red Army has now encircled. The crews of six warships at Kronstadt have mutinied and murdered several commissioners. The Soviet troops are unable to cope with, th-e mutineers, and the Government is seeking a peaceful settlement with them.
LONDON, 27th February. The Sunday Express's correspondent at Riga states that mutinous Red troops are joining the insurgent workers at Moscow, where fierce street fighting continues.
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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 50, 28 February 1921, Page 7
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