Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-03-10
IPETROCRAD m
! FLAMES, REPORT
Former Capital of Russia Burn
T; ing as Rebels Close In, Says
1 News Agency.
SOVIET CHIEFS in FLIGHT
Twenty-Five Comn1ssars Abandoned
by Troops-Harding and Hoover
Appealed to for Food for Anti,
:. BoIsheviki in kronstadt.

London, March S.-War Minister
,Trotzky of Russia has been appoint
ed dictator of the Bolshevik govern
ment and has been vested with unlim-
tied powers to handle the revolution
airy situation, according to Helsing-
fors dispatch to the Exchange eTele-
graph.
London. March S.-The Central
News correspondent at Helsingfors re-
ports receipt of news of the most Sc
Tious character from Petrograd since
midnight. The advices said many of
the residential and business quarters
were in flames.
The soviet government, the message
continued, was dispatching a large
number of troops from Moscow to Pc
trograd to assist in restoring order.
were planning to extend to these
troops friendly reception in the hope
of winning them over
Rebels Close In on Petroerad.
Paris, March S.-Russian bolshevist
forces have been driven out of Gran
iienbaum, town on the southern shore
of the Gulf of Finland 10 miles west
of Petrograd, by naval units from
Kronstadt says dispatch from vi
borg.
Warships have gone up the Neva
river and landed contingents of sail
in pntrnnrad VIII Of
garrison has Joined the revolutionar-
les. The rest of the garrison is de-
clared to have retreated toward Cat
china, 80 miles southwest, where Leon
,TrOtZky, minister of war, and the Boil
shevist high command have headquar-
tiers.
Late dispatches from various sources
confirm reports that the soviet govern
ment of Russia is facing situation
of extreme gravity and is struggling
against veritable revolutionary move
ment
Ask Harding and Hoover for Aid.
The Russian parliamentary commit
tee in Paris today sent messages to
President Harding and Herbert Hoov-
er, secretary of commerce, soliciting
help in the form of food and other
necessaries for the anti-Bolsheviki in
kronstadt and Petrograd. The mes
sages We're signed by NJ. Kedrine of
the committee.
Soviet leaders are terrified and Niko-
Vlai Lenin, Bolshevist premier and NJ
Trotzky are preparing for flight, says
Reval dispatch TO the Matin.
Commissars Flee to Esthonia.
Twenty-Five soviet Russian commits
sars, abandoned by their troops have
taken refuge in Esthonia, according to
wireless message picked up by the
Elffel towed station.
Commissioners Zinoviev and Kalinin
and several of the other Bolshevist
commissioners at Petrograd are re-
ported to have taken flight and TO have
been arrested at Isborg (Viborg?), ac-
cording to the wireless advices.
Maxim Litvinov, chief of soviet
legations abroad, is said by the same
advices TO have embarked in Boil
shevist vessel at Reval after drawing
an important sum from the bank there.
The garrison of Kraynoya Gorko,
near Petrograd, has rallied to the anti
Bolshevist cause, says a wireless mes
sage given out by the French foreign
Office.
The town of Pskov, near the Es-
thonian border, is reported to have
been captured by insurgents who
marched there.
The anti-Bolshevist leader, Aptonoff,
at the head Of $4,000 armed peasants,
iie declared to be in control of the
government Of voronezh and Tambov,
in southern Russia, and 1t is said this
fact makes 1t possible to revictual the
northern sections Of the country.