REBELLION AGAINST REDS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15465, 9 March 1921, Page 3

REBELLION AGAINST REDS.

BIG PEASANT RISING EXPECTED. - CONTRAST IN REVOLUTIONS. '.Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) LONDON, March 7. The Warsaw correspondent advises that lie is reliably informed from Riga that tho position of the Soviet Government is most serious. It is no longer a question of suppressing strikes and riots or quelling mutinous sailors. The Soviet is faced with a revolutionary army. Red troops are going to Petrograd from Moscow, but defections are probable. Peasants’ revolts are formidable and spreading at Tamboc, Veronesh and Kursk, under the leadership of Autonoff, a former Red commander, who has seized Grjazi. Savinkoff, president of -the former Russian Political Committee, says: “The revolts are premature, and may be suppressed. If successful, there is not the slightest doubt that before summer there will be -a peasant outbreak on the largest scale throughout Russia. Revolutionary feelings against the Communists have been intensifying during the last two months. The success of the rising depends on the capacity of the Red army. Suppression is unlikely as the moral of the infantry is of the worst. Tho overthrow of the Government is not expected, but, if village risings occur throughout Russia, grave trouble is certain to follow. LONDON, March b. Tho Daily Express .states that the Petrograd and Moscow revolutions must bo differentiated. The former represents a movement towards right and liberty, and hjie latter outi-Bolsthives Lenin. Reports from the frontier state that heavy gunfire is audible in the direction of Kronstadt, which is replying to the bombardment. t Tho Daily Telegraph's Copenhagen and Riga correspondents confirm reports that during the Petrograd fighting the Reds turned artillery from armored ears upon the workers. The Soviet leaders are becoming increasingly anxious, and the Red troops’ loyalty to tho Soviet is everywhere uncertain. Advices from Helsingfors state that 50,000 sailors and garrison troops are marching from Kronstadt to Petrograd. The Soviet sent Chinese and others to oppose them, some of whom were dispersed by warship fire. Accounts received in London describe Kerensky, who is still in Paris, as the nolicital leader of the revolt.—A. and N.Z.O.A. BARBAROUS BOMBARDMENT. RED ARTILLERY FIRE ON WORKMEN’S QUARTERS. ANNIHILATION OF REGIMENT., (Received March 9, 9.25 a.m.) ' HELSINGFORS, March 8. During the Moscow outbreak artillery on the hills overlooking the city opened a terrible bombardment on the workmen’s quarters. Several hundreds wero killed and a large number wounded. The bombnrdment was due to the workmen’s leaders calling a general strike and demanding a Constituent Assembly. Over one hundred thousand are now on strike in Moscow. Soviet troops encountered the Kronstadt forces. The Vasilyostrov regiment, .attempting to outflank the rebels, marched on to the ice, whereupon the battleship Petropavlovsk fired, smashing’the surrounding ice, resulting in the regiment’s annihilation. The revolutionaries informed Tehitenerin that the rebellion was not an officers’ revolt Jsut a popular movement aimed at securing a new Government which would defend the peasants and fight the Soviet to the last.—A. and N.Z.C.A. SOVIET I&PER’S* REPORTS. (Received March 9. 11.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 8. An official message from Moscow, dated March 3, which has been received by the paper “Soviet Russia,” states: “All is quiet in Moscow and Petrograd. Mutineers in Kronstadt are fighting imongst themselves. A complete collapse of the insurrection is expected.”— A. and N.Z.C.A.