THE RUSSIAN REVOLT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10848, 14 March 1921, Page 6

THE RUSSIAN REVOLT

REMARKABLE INSURGENTS COMPLETELY HOLD FETROGRAD. CALL FOR AMERICAN HELP. Bv Telegraph— Press Assn. — Copyright Australian and N 7. fable Association. PARIS, March 11. There is now no doubt that the insurrection in Russia was the work of the Revolutionary Socialists, most of whose leaders left Paris for lleval. where they in:end to form a new Russian Government immediately. Potrograd is entirely in the hands of the insurgents. Gutehoff, the Russian Red Cross Director, has cabled to President Harding asking for a supply of food and money for the Whites, whose success, he says, depends entirely on their power of enduring hunger longer than the Moscow Government. He also asks Mr Harding to placo *ix thousand tons of foodstuffs belonging to Mr Hoover’s organisation in Finland, at tho disposal of Koslowwky’s temporary Government »t Kronstadt. INCIDENT AT PEVAL FRENCH SEIZE, BOLSHEVIK STORES. (Received March 13. 0.0 p.m.) STOCKHOLM, March 11. Copenhagen telegrams state that) a French squadron entered Reval harbour, sent a detachment ashore, and seized vast stores awaiting transport to the Bolsheviks in Russia. It is believed that another French squadron of light cruisers has gone to Kronstadt fn order to assist the rebels against the Soviet. “FIGHTING FOP FREEDOM” A KRONSTADT MANIFESTO. LONDON, March 11. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent states that tho Kronstadt revolutionaries have issued a manifesto, which states, “We are fighting for the freedom of personality which has been crushed by Communists, against the violence of tho bureaucracy and th# people’s commissaries, the enslavement of the working masses by the tradfi Unions, and against the mass execution of peasants; and, lastly, for Russia. We have raised t-he banner of the third revolution. Info under the Communists & more terrible than death.” DESTRUCTION BY SHELLB LONDON, March 11. Helsingfors reports that shells from Kronstadt, destroyed the railway botween Mariennbaum and Krasnayajgorka, and also between Oranienbanm and Petrograd.