REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA.

Otago Witness, Issue 3500, 12 April 1921, Page 19

REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA.

PROPAGANDA IN CHINA. HELSINGFORS, April 5. Ru ssia and China have reached a provisional commercial agreement, the Soviet guaranteeing to discontinue propaganda in China, and to compensate the Chinese for losses sustained in Russia. TRADE WITH NORWAY. CHRISTIANIA, April 5. A Norwegian delegation has gone to Stockholm to negotiate a commercial treaty with a Soviet delegation. A GHASTLY STORY. LONDON, April 6. The Helsingfors correspondent of The Times wires a ghastly story in connection with the capture of Kronstadt. Ten thousand fell in the recent fighting, and the bodies were piled in stacks, burial being impossible. The glow in the sky over the fortress flickers unceasingly at night as cremation progresses. When Kronstadt fell 800 of the defenders were unable to escape. They were lured to surrender under the Bolshevist promise that they would not be executed, but the gates of the barracks closed upon them for ever. Women and children inquiring the fate of the missing men were driven away by Mongol soldiers with rifle butts. They were not allowed in the town. No rations are available, and the conditions are appalling. The sufferings of those who escaped across the ice were awful. Thev staggered through the deep slush, the trail being dotted with the dead and the dying.