The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-12
STATE DEPARTMENT
 MAKES LYS|S0F
 RUSSIAN SITUATION
Domination of Factions De- bends on Success of Maneu- vers for Control of
 Food Supply
By Associated Press


 Washington, NMarch 1l.--Military dcni- nation in Petrograd, Moscow and other Russian cities is dependent more and more upon the success of the maneuvers Nor control of the food supply, accord- ing to analysis of reports or conditions there made today by officials of the state department.
 Summaries of the reports indicate thai both the revolutionists and the bolsae- wiki are making every effort to maintain communication with the rural districts, in order to satisfy both the troops and the nonfighting population. It was re- ported that the communist troops about Petrograd had demanded increased ra- tions. and the granting of them had the effect of increasing the disturbances in the civilian groups
 x Revolutionsts in charge of Kronstadt have announced that they had pro- visions enough to maintain their position and would appeal for outside aid only on behalf of the noncom batant civilians and children in the event of a prolonged struggle.
 CAPITAL UNDER SIEGE
 Petrograd according to the advices to the state department. is virtually under siege, the bolshevilu having disposed troops along the main approaches to the city and inaugurated a policy of whole sale arrests of workmen and citizens who are suspected of sympathiizng with the revolutionists.
 Practically all of the workmen in Petrograd have voted to join the revolu- tionists, whose headquarters are at Kron- stadt, although direct aid to kronstadt is difficult because of bosheviki police and military domination.
 The workmen organizations are, how ever in constant communication with Kronstadt M
 According to press statement by the Kronstadt reyolutionists on March g. which has been communicated to the state department, attacks made on the fortress of Kronstadt from both shores of the Gulf of Finland were repused with considerable losses to the attack ing bolsheyiki. The attacks have not been resumed because of the necessity of the boshevik command retaining it's control at Petrograd N
 Artillery fire from Kronstadt was said to have destroyed railroad connection be- tween Petrograd and Oraniebaum; fires were reported to have broken out at sev- eral points along the coast.
 BATTLE IS RENEWED
 Stockholm, March 1.-The fight for Petrograd has again famed up. Kron- stadt's bombardment. which reconi- menced last night, continuing through out the day. In intensity the firing sur. passed all previous efforts. At Ierioki. on the Russo Finnish border. and other Finnish places the ground was shaken and windows were broken
 The Dagen Nyheter reports that Kron- stadt last night. by means of electric Morse signals. demanded the immediate surrender of Krasnoye Gorka, on pain of complete annihiation. During the day Krasnoye Gorka made only feeble reply to the heavy fire from the battie- ships sebastopol and Petropavlovsk.
 TROTzKY OFFERS REWARD
 Warsaw, March 11.--Leon Trotzlsy the soviet war minister, according to Rus sians here who are in daily touch with their country, has offered a reward of :, 600 GOO rubles for the body. dead or alive of General Koslovsky. the revolutionary leader in the Petrograd region. General Koslovsky, in return. is reported 10 have offered 100000 rubles for Trotzky sl body.
 It is pointed out here that million rr bles now is worth about &o.
 A dozen or more nsu:rectionis are in progress throughout Russia. and the movement daily is encour- aging other uprsngs, says the local Russians. who assert they are gaining confidence of the ultimate success of the counter revolutionary movement as they learn of fresh antisoviet forces appearing from odessa northward.
 Besides a dozen or more main insurrec- tions. many antibolsheviki bands are re- ported to be operating under stimulus Of the Kronstadt movement. East of Kievl and the Volga river region there are five main bands, the most important of which is headed by General Makno, the Ukrai- nian antibolshevik leader, who recently his forces with those of General Antonoff. These bands are said to number from 10000 to 15,ooo men. all mounted and well equipped. The bands defeated the bosheviki in several encoun- ters east of Kiev. but the bolsheviSi have tightened their hold in Kiev and are pre- parins to defend it from within and without.
 FIRES ARE RAGING
 Stockholm. March 1l.-Telegrams re ceiyed by the Wa Daylight Aliehanda say that Oranienbaum, on the southern r.--.-A