VICTORY OR DEATH'

Northern Advocate, 21 March 1921, Page 5

VICTORY OR DEATH'

KRONSTADT FALL DECLARED.

'BATTLESHIPS BLOWN TJP

PRIOR TO EVACUATION

(Received 9.40 a-m.)

LONDON, March 19

Helsingfors telegrams report that the final conquest of Kronstadt occurred at 2 p.m. on Friday after the distribution of the last rations of munitions. Though n earing exhaustion the sailors fought on until the ammunition gave out.

The American Red Cross has taken over the charge of 12,500 refugees, housing them in a former German concentration camp.

The majority of the refugees, despite Kronstadt's fall, predict the overthrow o'f the Bolsheviks in the spring, the sailors declaring that thei r motto is still "Victory or Death."

IKoslowski, leader of the insurrection. escaped. He confirms the destruction of the fortresses' guns and the blowing up of the battleships Petropavlovska nd Sebastopol prior to Kronstadt's fall.

A Moscow wireless reasserts with details that White Guard officers disguised as sailors and Red troops di-. retted the rising.—A. and N.Z. LENIN ASPIRATION. FAILS TO MATERIALISE.

(Received 9.45 a.m.) v PARIS, March 20. A message via Reval states that Lenin,' speaking at the 'Communist Congress in Moscow,- admitted that he was mistaken in the Bolshevist policy. He had abandoned the hope of a world revolution. Therefore, = Russia must enter into agreement with the 'bourgeoisie Governments and also encourage capitalists' private enterprise, otherwise Russia, could not progress.—A. and N.Z. ATTACK OVERWHELMING. BIG GUNS USELESS. Received 10.30 a.m.) HELSINGFORS, March 19. Bolsheviks in superior number attacked Kronstadt from two. sides, but the main assault was from Oranienbaum.The Kronstadt aritllery was useless, being outranged, but the machine guns mowed down hundreds of ■BoSisheviks, who however captured Batteries Nos. 2- 3 and 6 ahd turned them against the town, which was entered after the third -attack. Street fighting continued Friday. The warship Petropavlovslc is still afloat, tout the guns were thrown overboard- The fate of the crew w is unknown. —A. and 'N.Z. SANGUINARY REVENGE. TRAITOROUS ENEMIES. , (Received 2 p.m.) HEUSINGFORS, March 39. The insurrection leader states that & great many spies and traitors were (Within Kronstadt. ' The Soviet at-

tacks were carried out by overwhelm* 1 ing numbers, Trotsky taking no account of the lives lost. The Kronstadt machine guns played among the stormers- whose bodies covered

the ground in heaps. There was terrific street fighting at the end and it was feared thait the Bolsheviks wtould take a bloody revenge. —A. and N.Z.