Evening star., 1921-03-11
B0LSHEvkS CUT Up
BY BY:REVOLUT|ON|STS
ON NORTH FRONT
Trotsky Orders Army From
/ South, But UntruStWorthi-
ness BaIkS Use.
ULTIMATUM Is SENT
TOPETROGRAD SOVIET
City's Surrender by March IS De-
manded - Anti-Red Movement
Still Spreading Over Country.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 1.-THE bolsheviis
general. Tuchatschewski. received re-
Inducements from Smolensk and com
menced on Wednesday vigorous Of
fensive on the Petrograd front. but
suffered heavy losses. says dispatch
TO the London Times from Riga.
War Minister Trotsky ordered to
petrograd the entire bolshevist south
army to the aid of Tuchatschewski. but
the Moscow commissary of that army
replied that he could not trust his troops
and demanded special instructions.
Gen. Avroff. the dictator in Petro-
grad, the dispatch adds. is reported to
have ordered the electric light and
water power stations blown up.
There are 10000 sailors and soldiers
at Kronstadt. They have "a plentiful
supply of ammunition and mines, and
their morale is excellent. More than
$4,000 laborers are striking.
1t is reported from Shlisselburg.
near Petrograd. that the sailors Of the
fleets on Lakes Ladoga and Omega have
committee.
Wholesale Executions.
Revolutionary authorities at the
fortress of Konstadt have sent an
ultimatum to the soviet authorities in
Petrograd demanding the surrender
of the city before March %. If the
city is not given up. the ultimat tum
declares, there will be a general bom-
bardment, it is asserted in an Abo.
4 frt1 to hn
Times. Wholesale arrests and cxecu-
tions of workmen are said to have oc-
Cured at Oranienbaum, Systerbak
and Petrograd.
Kronstadt last night sent out a
wireless dispatch. denying bolshevik
statements that the fortress was
without food. says telegram from
Stockholm. To the contrary. there is
plenty of food and ammunition there.
the message stated.
Artillery fire from. Kronstadt has
been extremely well directed" the
wireless dispatch is quoted as saying:
'.The fortress of Todleben and ali
other soviet batteries on the Karelian
peninsula have been completely de-
molished. Two of the. fonr 12-tnch
guns at Krasnoye Gorka have been si-
fenced by shells from the battleship
Petropavlovsk Brasnoye Gorka has
been isolated, the railroad to 1t has
been destroyed and a thaw has placed
the surrounding marshes in such con-
dition that the fortress has been cut
of from the rest of the bolshevik
forces
Red Soldiers Mutiny.
A great anti Dol shevik movement in
the vicinity of Minsk. white Russia.
is reported in Reuters dispatch
from Helsingfors. Soviet troops are
said to have mutinied and murdered
bolshevik commissars there. Another
dispatch mentions street fighting be-
tween the bolsheviki and anti-soviet
units in Kief.
Trustworthy news received from
the interior of Russia. says a dis
patch to the London Times. from
Reval shows that anti-soviet revolts
are spreading throughout the coun-
try The food station is described
as catastrophe. no food trains hav-
ing reached the country from Siberia
since February IL. The situation is
made more serious through the con-
gestion of the transport system. On
the main railway from Perm to Vo-
logda 900 trains are being held up
10000 Approach PetrOgrad.
1t is announced. the dispatch con-
tinues, that 10000 communist troops
are approaching Petrograd. but that
their loyalty is doubted a Chinese
regiment is reported TO have been
destroyed.
Heavy fighting continues in Petro-
grad. The Nikolavisk railway sta
tion has been bombed by airplanes
from Kronstadt.
A Helsingfors message reports the
anti-soviet peasant leader Antonioff
has bady defeated the red troops in
the Kursk region.
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