The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-03-11
COMMUNISTS RULE
IS STILL IN POWER
SITUATION IN PETRoGRAD RE-
MAINS OBSCURE, ACCORDING
TO INFORMATION REACHING
BRITISH OFFICIAL CIRCLES
IN LONDON. MAY BE TEMPO
RARY STRIKES TO FOLLOW

London, March lO.-After Ten
days of conflicting reports regarding
events in Russia, information re-
ceived in British official circles to-
day are believed to give something
of true picture of conditions there
It is stated that the anti-Bolshe'
vik risings in Moscow which were
more in the nature of trade unionist
strikes rather than military opera.
tions have been liquidated and that
the Communists are continuing their
rule. The belief is expressed, how
ever, that settlement of the trouble
was by force rather than by an
amelioration of the economic diff
fculties and that strikes may be ex-
pected to occur at any time.
The situation in Pertograd re-
mains obscure, official circles limit
ing definite statements TO the fact
that Kronstadt and several fortress
es on the south shore Of. the Gulf
Of Finland, are holding out against
the Bolsheviki. The first informa-
ton concerning the exact nature of
the Kronstadt revolt is reported to
have been received in Finland in a
newspaper by the Kronstadt revolu-
tiopists.
In this paper it is stated that no
attempts are being made to reestab-
lish anything g. preaching the Gar
ist/ regime or even to overthrow the
soviet system, but that the revolt is
against what is termed the military
dictatorship Of Lenin and Trotzky,
by which the people have been rob-
bed of the benefits of the Russian
revolution.
This newspaper disclaims the
leadership of General Kozlovski and
names M. Petrichenko as the leading
member of the revolutionist. It de-
clares that the association by the
Bolsheviki of the name Czarists and
such reformers as Alexander F.
Kerensky, with the revolutionist is
dodge on the part of the Bolshevik
propagandists to obscure the real
nature of the Kronstadt revolt and
make it appear to be the work of
foreigners and Czarists rather than
of Russians themselves.
The presence of Kerensky in Lon
don which became known today af-
ter he had been reported to be in
Kronstadt leading the revolutionists
is considered in some quarters here
as indicating the truthfulness of the
statement of the newspaper.
The greatest Importance is being
attached here to Wednesdays Off
cial Bolshevik wireless dispatch ad-
mitting that communication between
Moscow and Siberia has been cut of.
for fortnight and indicating that
the smouldering opposition of the
peasants was becoming active. The
belief was expressed here today
that peasant uprisings' would be
more dangerous to the Bolshevik
regime than active military opposi-
ton from an isolated fortress such as
Kronstadt, where, if immediate sue
cess did not attend, they would be
starved, while no such success could
be hoped in a Bolshevik move
against he rural population.
London, March 10.-Nikolai
Lenin, the Russian Soviet premier
speaking at the opening of the all
Russian congress of the Bolshevik
party in Moscow Tuesday with
reference to the recent events in
Kronstadt, predicted that the revolt
in that city would be put down
quickly, says wireless message
from Moscow today.
"The rising, organized by France
in conjunction with social revolu-
tionaries, will be crushed in few
days." Lenin declared. "Neverthe-
less, we are forced to consider most
seriously the internal situation of
Soviet Russia"
Lenin said the difficulties were
bound up with the questions of de-
mobilization, food and fuel, and