SOVIET GOVERNMENT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 9 March 1921, Page 5

SOVIET GOVERNMENT

POSITION MOST SERIOUS.

BY CABLE--PRESS ASSOCIATION—COJfiIUGH'i (Times.) Mar. 7. The Times' Warsaw correspondent advises that he is reliaibiy informed from Riga that the position, of* the feoviet. Government is most serious. It is no longer a question of suppressing the ,strike riots or quelling the mutinous sailors, but the soviet is faced with a' revolutionary army. . j * Red troops are going to Petrograd from Moscow, but their defection is probable. The peasant revolts are formidable, and are spreading at Tamiboff, Voronesh, and Kursk, under the leadership of Autonoff, a former Red commander, who Sseized Grjasii. Savinkoff, president of a former Russian political committee, says the revolts are premature and may be suppressed if successful. > There is not the slightest doubt that before the summer there will be a> peasant outbreak on largest scale throughout Russia, the revolutionary feelings against 'the anti-Communists intensifying during the. last two months. The success of the rising dependis. on the capability of the Red army. The suppression of the outbreak is unlikely, as the moral of the infantry is of the worsiL , . The overthrow of the Government is' not expected, but if village; risings occur throughout Russia the towns are' certain to follow. (Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, Mar. 8. Advices from Helsingfors state that .30,000 sailors and garrison troops are marching from Kronstadt to Petoograd. The Soviet sent Chinese and others to oppose them', some of whom were dispersed by warship fire. Accounts received in London deser|be • Kerensky, who is still in Paris, as the political leader of the revolt.