REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA.
REBELS DO All NATE PETROORAD. COPENHAGEN, February 12. General Trotsky has ordered the arrest and deportation of sailors from Kronstadt,, who were sent to Aloseow to demand more food. Other sailors, retaliating, arrested the Soviet deputies. Troops were ordered from Central Russia, but were unwilling to fight the sailors. Petrograd is dominated by rebel guns, and .is now more under the control of the rebels than the Soviet. RUSSIA N S ATT AC K A AIERIC AN S. WASHINGTON, February 14. Admiral Strauss, of the American Asiatic fleet, lias advised the Navy Department that two sailors of the United States cruiser Albany were slightly m- ; jured in an attack by Russians at Vladi- ! vostock on February 8. Admiral Strauss i states that the affair has no political importance. Mr Daniels (Secretary of the Navy) has asked for details. ELOQU ENT STATISTICS. LONDON. February 19. The Morning Post’s Helsingfors correspondent states that an official report of tiie Soviet secret police for the last six | months of 1920 states that that body dis- : covered 289 counter-revolutionary ' conspiracies, which were suppressed, and 114 attempted risings. There were 4305 j counter - revolutionaries executed, and j 28,940 were imprisoned.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3494, 22 February 1921, Page 17
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