RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18198, 19 March 1921, Page 9

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

NIGHT ATTACK ON KRONSTADT. ! , CHINESE- IN A DEATH-TRAP. . i Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright/ 1 PARIS,. March 17. The Paris edition of the Chicago Tri-' bune says that General Trotsky despatched 40,000 Chinese troops to carry oat a swift night attack on Kronstadt. Verey lights revealed the attackers crossing the ice, and the revolutionaries poured out upon' them a withering fire from machine guns. When the Chinese began to flee Soviet { troops who were posted behind them fired on the Asiatics, dotting the ice in the gulf with dead. Captured Chinese declare that the Soviet, authorities starved them for two days, and then gave out heavy rations of rum and ether, with a promise of food and; permission to loot in the event of : their 1 ' entering Kronstadt.—A. and N.Z. Cable.' REDS DESERT TO THE REBELS. '-■ SOVIET ADMITS HEAVY LOSSE§. * LONDON, March 17. Finnish -reports state that 5000 Bedß went over to the Kronstadt rebels during ■_ an attack. A Moscow wireless admits the loss dj - several thousand killed.—A. and N.Z* Cable. FIGHT FOR KRONSTADT. . , CONFLICTING REPORTS. LONDON, March 18. ’ (Received March 18, at 7.20 p.m.) Riga reports state that the Bolshevist* have taken According to other accounts, they have captured some fort*, but hare not retaken the town.—A. and N.Z. Cable. . .