The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-03


demanding peace with the world have
Leen held. A great majority of the
workers there are on strike, ostensibiy
because OF the food shortage, but the
real object of which is the overthrow
OF the Lenine-Trotzky regime. accord
Ing TO dispatches. Numerous outbreaks
have occurred in Petrograd and two
Soviet commissioners have been killed
there. the report says. Practically every
factory In Petrograd is affected.
Copenhagen reports are to the effect
that this strike movement is spreading
outside Of Petrograd simultaneously
With the news being received by Rus
sian workers and peasants of Bolshe-
visit reverses on all fronts. While these
Russian advices are at best meagre
they are sufficient to indicate that the
situation there is very grave and that
II is causing serious concern in Official
circles in Moscow.
Travellers arriving at the frontier saw
that nothing less than CONSERVATION ex-
lists In Moscow and that twelve delegates
which the Red army. operating against
the Poles, sent to the Soviet capital to
urge an immediate peece were put 20
death
Anou er report says disturbances have
occurred in Moscow and thar Leon
Trotzky was wounded.
Travellers said a courtmartal had
been summoned to try Gen. Budhenny
the Red cavalry leader who was defeated
~ the Poles.
To whatever front the Red Leaders
ray turn they can find no comfort
According TO advices received here from
Constartinople. Gen. Baron Peter Wran-
gel has destroyed several Bolshevist
divisions in the region Of Alexandrovsk
and mas surrounded other large units
in Orickhoff and other strategic points
between Ekaterfnoslaf and the Sea of
-Azof. In a week he was said to have
captured 10000 prisoners and large sup
files of munitions of war.
On the Polish front the Reds are still
In fight. AN entire division was said
to have surrendered to the Poles after
killing its Soviet commissioner The
commander OF the Third Bolshevist
Army was reported t, have killed him
self
The Poles have completely routed the
Bolsheviki in the Ida region, south of
wilma. The Moscow Government admits
the loss of Ida and Baranovitchi
A despatch from Paris gays reports
received there from Russia represent
Lenine and Georgevitch Tchitcherin. his
Foreign Minister. as greatly troubled
over the situation. In an effort TO halt
the advance of the I'oles and of Cen
Wrangel they have issued an appeal
signed by Gen. Brussiloff to all officers
Of the one time imperial regime to join
the Soviet army.
One of the first detailed reports of
tho movement In Petrograd against the
Russian Bolshevist Government to be
printed in the United States was con-
talned in THE SUN AND New YORK
HERALD of September Is in special
despatch from Paris 1t said that adj
vices received by the French Foreign
Office from Copenhagen and Berlin were
to the effect that a score of Soviet OFF,
Gals, including half a dozen commits
sioners, had been assassinated and their
bodies thrown in the cutters.
The situation in Petrograd at that
time was reported to be so bad that
the city was under bombardment and
revolt by the Russian feet at Kron-
sta DIT was expected.
Other cable dispatches TO this news
parcr have told of the paralysis which
was creeping over Industrial Russia and
the Wholesale closing down of factories
because OF lack of raw material. The
railroads there are paralyzed. and when
there are means of transporting food
supplies from the producing regions the
peasants will not part with il for the
worthless Bolshevist paper money un-
less force Is used. These dispatches
have made II clear that the situation In
Russia was fast becoming intolerabie
and that rising against the dictator
ship of the proletariat represented by
I.enine and Trotzky was to- be ex'
pected.