RUSSIA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 21 March 1921, Page 5

RUSSIA

FALIQFKftONSTAOT NEWS CONTIRMKI) (By Electric, Telegraph-Copyright) (Australian t v N.Z. Cable Association) LONDON, Mnnh lb llel,-inglor> telegrams report that the final conquest of Kroiistadt occurred at two o'clock on Friday after the distribution of the last ratio-is am! munitions. Though 'tearing exhaustion the sailors J'ouglu on until tie ammunition L'ave out. T?ie American Hod Cress has l.iken over the charge of 1250 refugees, bousing them in a former German coiiccntrauun camp. The majority, despite Kronstadt's fall, predict, th« overthrow of the Bolsheviks in ihe spring, the sailors declaring thai their motto is still "victory or death." Kosimvski. who escaped. ■ ■i.uhnns the destruction of the I'oi Ir-ss mius and the blowing up "I it'' Pclropavlovsk and Sebastapol pM<ir to Kronstadt's fall .

A Moscow wireless ic.isserts, wiibj *L tails .that ex-Tsarist- White G'uardj officers disguised as sailors and Hod troops directed the losing. HEAVY BOLSHEVIK I.OSsKs nULSI.VJI''OPS, March 1,,. Bolsheviks in Miperio, numbers at tacked Krousdat- from two sides hut ihe main assaidt was iroin Orauienbamm. The Kronst-tdt artillery was useless. heir* goutranged, but the machine gnus mowed down hundreds of Bolsheviks, who, however, captured batteries two. Mi've and .-!x and turned them against the '-o.vn which v.as* entered after a third attack. Street fighting continued until Friday. '"The warship Petropavlovsk is still afloat but the guns wore thrown overboard and the -fate of the crew is mi known. (Published in The Timos) LONDON, March '-t The Times Stockholm correspondent confirms theJall of Rronstadt. Trotskv personally led six thousand Beds iu'a 'combined final attack ; captured the outer forts, and turned the guns against the garrison over the heads of the attacking troops. Thousands of spectators lined the Finnish shore and watched the progress of the ad vanco.