New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Rebels Hp1rl
Terrific Fire
On Petro|ggrad
Cronsiadl's Bombardment
increasing i'll Intensity,
Windows on Finnish
Border Being Shattered
Battleships Join
Nm Smelling Fort
Revolt Reported to Have
Spread TO the Karelian:
Artillery Being Used


STOCKHOLM. March II (By The AS
sociateti Press) The fight for Petro~
grad has again famed up, Cronstadt's
bombardment, which recommended asst
night, continuing throughout the day.
In intensity the firing surpassed all
previous efforts. At Terioki on the
Russo Finnish border, and other Fin
nish places, the ground was shaken
and windows were broken
The Dagens Nyheter reports that
Cronstadt last night, by means Of cleo
tri" Morse signals, demanded the i'm
mediate surrender of Krasnoya Gorka
on pain of complete annhilation. Dur
ing the day Krasnoya Gorka made only
feeble reply to the heavy fire from the
battleships Sebastopol and Petropav-
lovsk.
Later the Dagens Nyheter learned
from the Finnish military experts at
Cronstadt that the fierce drumfire of the
fortress has had the intended effect.
One of them declares that Krasnoya
Gorka surrendered and that the Cron-
stsdt troops occupied the fortress, the
guns of which are now being directed
against Petrograd.
This expert adds that the revolu-
tlonary leaders, having landed suf-
f1clcnt number of troops, have com
menced an outAanking movement
against Petrograd. using Krasnoya
Gorka as its base
Fortresses Heavily ShelIed
Since this morning Cronstadt has
heavily shelled Systerbak and Val
klasars, causing fires. Some Of the
coast batteries replied
1t is reported, but without confirma
ton, that the insurrection has spread
to the karelian peninsula and that in
tights there field artillery has been en-
ployed: Russian airmen Friday re-
peatedly flew over Finnish territory
according to the advices received here
The suburbs Of Petrograd says the
Eagens Nyheter, were bombarded Fri
! day. Riots occurred, but details are
lacking. Refugees arriving at the
frontier to-day say that machine guns
were used on the workers by cadet Of.
ticers sent out to put down the unrest.
Form Anti-Soviet Rule
kilograms received by the Nya Dag
/ ligt Allehanda says that Oranienbaum
on the southern shore of the Gulf OF
Finland, is partly in ruins and that fires
are raging there. The artillery fire
against the town on Thursday night
was very fierce.
The dispatch says the open discus
sion of the situation by the Petrograd
newspapers proves that M. Zinovieff
the Bolshevik Governor of Petrograd
fn
was formerly done,
LONDON, March 11.-Reports from
Reval to-day say that Russian emf
grants are forming government there
to include representatives of all. anti
Bolshevik parties, which soon will en-
ter Russia.
The flood OF Russian refugees ovel
the frontier has suddenly ceased, tht
reports say, and it is presumed thu
Soviet authorities are preventing an
one from leaving Petrograd
The leaders of the revolutionary
movement now developing in Russa
are entirely unknown in Russian po
ltical circles, which indicates that the
movement is non-political and one o1
the broad masses Of the Russian people
themselves, according to Anatolyr
1,aikaloff, president of group of Rus
sian Social Democrats in London.
More Garrisons Join Revolt
NJ. Baikaloff to-day communicated tc
British labor leaders important private
information which had filtered into
Russian political and commercial
circles in London from what ne char
acterized as "most reliable" sources OF
information in Russia.
"Statements of the Soviet govern
ment that the movement is directed b,
q White counter revolt and the Entente
are entirely false" declared M. Bal
kaloff in his communication to the la
Eor leaders.
"The revolution is being carried OF
by workers, sailors, soldiers and peas
ants. The Socialist parties are not ever
indirectly responsible. The movement
is concentrated in Petrograd, but al
ready is spreading through the country
I'VE have reliable information tina
the garrisons of Pskov and Smolensl
have revolted; that in Tula, Serpukhof
and Kolemna respectively 100 mile.
south, 81 miles south and 63 miles
southeast of Moscow the workers have
expelled the commissaries and pro
claimed general strike, and that the
peasants of the Ukraine. Western 81
IBERIA and the Ural are in open revolt.