New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
Troops ON W Western Front
Hold Mass Meetings
and Demand That an
End Be Put to Fighting
Commissaires Are
Slain by Workers
Twelve ENJOYS From Sol
diers Summarily Shot;
Red Regime Alarmed

LONDON, Oct. 2.-Reports Of Sc
rious disturbances in industrial es-
Establishments in Soviet Russia and
of a peace movement in the army on
the western Russian front are con-
tanned in Reuter- dispatch from
Helsingfors, dated Friday, based on
advices received there from Narva,
near the Russo Esthonian border.
Two commissaires were killed in
the factory outbreaks, it. is declared.
Nearly all the factories in Petro-
grad are affected, the workmen strik
ing with the object of overthrowing
the Soviet government, according
to the reports.
Large meetings are being held
among the troops of the western
Soviet army, demanding peace, it is
asserted. Twelve delegates from the
army who were sent to Moscow to
urge the making of peace, however,
were summarily shot, it is declared.
"Consternation reigns in the Mos
cow government" the Narva re-
ports add.
COPENHAGEN, Oct. REPORTS
that strike movement is rapidlv
spreading in Russia, resulting in seri-
Gus disturbances in various parts Of
the country, have been received by the
National Tidende from it's Hels:ngfors
correspondent. He declares travellers
from Russia confirm the recent reports
that street conflicts had occurred in
Petrograd, in which several of the
Soviet commissioners were killed by a
mob. (The previous reports had it
that six of the commissioners were
drowned in the Neva)
Persistent rumors that Leon Trotzky.
the War Minister had been wounded,
and that General Budenny, the noted
cavalry leader, was being courtmar-
tailed, also were in circulation, the
travellers reported.
At mass meeting which was largely
attended by Petrograd people a resoiu-
ton is declared to have been unani.
mously passed in favor of immediate
peace with the rest of the world.
WARSAW, Oct: 2-Northeast OF
Grodno the Poles have reached the
River Ulia, half way between Grodno
and Wilma, the Lithuanian capital, says
the official statement on fighting opera
tions issued to-day.
The Polish Second Army captured
1000 Russian Soviet soldiers and took
100 cannon between September 20 and
80, the statement adds.
Pursuit of the Bolshevik divisions
routed below Ida continues" the
statement says: THE group Of Colo
mel Dabiernacki is approaching Novo-
Grodek. Below Baranovitchi Posen
troops captured thousand prisoners
and thirty-six machine guns.
I'm the region of Suwalki all action
has been suspended as result of
agreement"
From The Tr'brnes Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-Washington
was without information tonight of
the reported mutiny of Soviet troops
on the Polish front and the uprising
OF the civilian population in Petrograd.
The cabled dispatches from London
and Copenhagen, however, did not sur
prise officials here who have been watch
ing the Russian situation. The drastic
rule of Lenine and Trotzky and their
subordinates, these officials said, was
certain eventually to inspire revolt
The State Department has been re-
celving authentic information of con
ditions in Petrograd, and also on the
fronts maintained by the Sogiet troops,
for more than a month. This intelli-
gence has indicated that the rule OF
the Soviet military forces in Petro-
grad has been most oppressive to the
civilian population, which has been de-
prived of food and fuel, and whose iiv-
ing conditions constantly were subor-
dinated to the needs of the army. A
recent report of Soviet militgry CON
ditions told of wounded Red soldiers
returning from the Polish front wear
ing sandals, and with few other gar
ments on.