CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14616, 17 March 1921, Page 5

CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA

DON COSSACKS REBEL. GENERAL BUDENY HELPLESS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received March 15, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, March 15. A message from Harbin states that reports arr> current that the anti-Bol-shevik rising in. Omsk has spread to Krasnoyark, in East Siberia. Official advices received at Paris state that Constantinople reports that the insurrectionary movement in the Caucasus is gaining.ground. The Don Cossacks revolted en masse, and General Budeny informed the Soviet that he was unable to lend assistance against the rebels, because the majority of his regiments are themselves composed of Cossacks. REVOLT RAPIDLY SPREADING. FAMINE IN PETROGRAD. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. Received March 16, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, March I>s. The. latest Russian messages state that the revolt is spreading. Peasants are flocking to the rebel standard in large numbers over a wide area. The Times' Riga correspondent reports risings in many parts of Siberia'. The railways have been out and food supplies to Russia are cut off. The Helsingfors correspondent of the Times states that thousands of rebellious workers and soldiers have joined Ocneral Antonov's revolutionary army operating in the provinces of Kursk, Voronetz, Tambov and Riasan. ■ Some cavalry divisions have penetrated the neighbourhood of Moscow. The revolt in the Ukraine is most extensive. Petrograd is famine-stricken. The last food rations were distributed on the 12th inst. Krasnoyagorna is isolated. ATTACK ON KRONSTADT. CHINESE BEATEN'BACK. THOUSANDS .OF' CASUALTIES. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Reneived March 16, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, March 15. The Daily Telegraph's Berlin correspondent states that trustworthy news shows that Kronstadt has not suffered from the bombardment, but the food supplies will only suffice for a fortnight. A Helsingfors telegram says that the Chinese, attempted to storm Kronstadt over the ice on Monday, but were defeated with heavy loss, suffering several thousand casualties owing to gunfire from the forts. A member of the American'Red Cross drove over the ice to Kronstadt with food. The soldiers refused to touch it. and sent the food for distribution to the hospital patients. The garrison of Kronstadt is now estimated at 50,000. TARTAR REPUBLIC PROCLAIMED. ANTI-SEMITISM RAMPANT. (Australian and N.Z: Cable Assn.) Received March 16, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, March 15. All the country between NishniNovgorod and Simbirsk is in revolt. An independent Tartar Republic has been proclaimed at Kazan. Anti-Semitism is rampant at Tsarit. sin where the Commissaries are mercilessly hunted down. /