The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-03-08
RED
LEC|ONS ON
TO MOSCOW
Soviet Government Moves
to Crush Rebellion
Strike at Capital.

Warsaw, March 8.-(By the As
sociated Press. )-Strong detach-
ments OF Russian bolsheviki caval-
~, commanded by General Buden-
ny, are being rushed from south
Russia to Moscow to crush the in
surgents, who ere said to be gain
ing in power daily in the Russian
capital
Reports claim that many units
OF the bOlsheviki division are dis
loyal, but the Chinese mercenaries
in the service of the Communists
are standing firmly by their soviet
leaders.
Hundreds Killed.
London. March 8.-(By the As
sociated Press recent
bombardment of the workmen' g
quarters in Moscow from artillery
placed on the hills overlooking the
city, says Central News dispatch
from Helsingfors today, several
hundred persons were killed and
numbers Of other wounded.
More than 100000 men and wo-
men, the dispatch asserts, now are
on strike in Moscow.
Kerensky Arrives.
Copenhagen, March 8.-Alexan-
der Kerensky, premier of the Rus
sian provisional government, which
was overturned by the bolsheviki
late in 1917, is said in advices re-
ceived here to be at Kronstadt, the
Russian fortress near Petrograd,
reported in revolutionary hands.
Kerensky, it is declared, is d.
recting the revolutionary movement
against Petrograd, with that fort.
ress as q base.
Drive Back SRe1s."
1 Helsingfors, March .S.-United
| Press. Russian revolutionaries
according to reports today, have
strengthened their hold on Petro-
grad and the surrounding terri.
tory.
The Red troops sent to the region
to meet an expedition Of $4,000
sailors and workers from Kron-
stadt we're reported driven back by
heavy shelling from the naval fort
ress and a captured battleship.
Ono Of the most magnetic Mos
COW orators, Gregory Zinovieff. has
gone to the front to bolster the boil
shevik morale but reports said his
task appeared hopeless.
The loyalty of garrisons outside
Petrograd was questioned. The,
were taking part in the firing to.
day but because of fog it could moi
be determined which faction they
support. 1t was believed they are
rebel bands.
The reyolutionaries were re-
ported to have killed or captured
every bolshevik commissary in
Petrograd.
| Kill Commissaries.
/ London, March S.-(By United
Press. s.)-All bolshevik commissar'
les in Petrograd have been killed
or taken prisoner by revolutionar'
les. according to foreign office ad'
vices today.
Dispatches from Helsingfors con
firmed reports that all Petrograd
except the fortress of Saints Petel
and Paul, was in rebel hands.
The dispatches apparently refut
ed a report that Gregory Zinovieff
chief Red propagandist, had beer
captured. He was said to have
been sent to Petrograd in the hope
that his oratory would stiffen thu
morale of the bolshevik troops.
The reports said his errand ap
peared hopeless since most OF tn
fortresses in the territory outside
Petrograd had Joined the revolu
tionaries. .....
BOlshevik Claim.
Washington, March s.-(Unitet
Press .)-"An is quiet in Moscow
and Petrograd. The mutineers a
Kronstadt are already fightlnl
among themselves and complete
| collapse of the insurrection is ex
pected," said an official messag
from Moscow, given out here toda.
at the offices of Soviet Russia,
magazine. The message was date'
March 6.