Evening star., 1921-03-12
BIOL LSHEV|K| MAKE
DESPERATE EFFORT
TO CURB REBELLION
Petrograd Wrested From
Their Hands, However,
Say Latest Advices.
AMERICAN FOOD STORES
REACH THE RUSSIANS
Hundreds Executed in Fighting
About Minsk-Rebel Bands 0p-
Grating in Many Sections.

BY the Associated Press
WARSAW, March 12-Petrograd is
in the hands of revolutionary forces
and the bolsheviki have been ousted.
it was declared in a wireless dispatch
received here today. The message,
which was confused and disconnect-
ed, owing to the weakness of the
sending station. is believed to have
been sent out from Petrograd.
1t was declared in the dispatch
that food sent by Col Edward w.
Ryan. American Red Cross commits
sioner to the Baltic states had ar
rived. but whether it had been re-
ceived at Kronstadt or Petrograd was
not clear.
Revolt Is Spreading.
The reports received in govern
mental quarters here say the reyolu-
tionary movement continues to spread
in the region surrounding Minsk. The
soviet authorities are described as
making desperate efforts to control
the situation.
A wireless appeal from the Kron-
stadt insurrectionists was picked up
today by the Polish government radio
station here. 1t made an urgent plea
for food supplies and for outside rein
forcements.
Fighting In Minsk.
A dispatch from Wilma says anti
bolshevik forces fought their way
into Minsk, and held control of the
city for five hours. but were later
RI n,,f 1,r t4t
occupying the city, the revolutionists
killed many local communists, it is
said, and when the bolsheviki re-en-
tered the town they executed more
than 200 persons, many of whom were
Poles. who were accused OF sympa-
thizing with the insurgents.
A radio dispatch signed by Prof.
Hermann Zeidler. former president of
the Russian Red Cross. states he has
undertaken to regulate food supplies
for the Russian revolutionists. Rus
Sian members Of the refugee colony
here state Prof. Zeidler Is q widely
known surgeon.
Rewards for Leaders.
Leon Trotsky, the Russian soviet
war minister, according to Russians
here who are in daily touch with
their country. has offered a reward
of 100000 rubles for the body. dead
or alive. of Gen. Kovlovsky, the rev.
olutionary leader in the Petrograd
is reported to have offered 10.0O0,00O
rubles for Trotsky's body.
1t is pointed out here that a million
rubles now Is worth about $50.
Besides a dozen or more main in
bands are reported to be operating
under stimulus of the Kronstadt
East of Kiev and the
Volga river region there are five main
bands. the most important Of which is
headed by Gen. Makno, the Ukrainian
anti-bolshevik leader, who recently
consolidated his forces with those Of
Gen. Antonofr. These bands are said
to number from 10000 to $4,000 men,
all mounted and well equipped. The
bands defeated the bolsheviki in sew
eral encounters east Of Kiev. but the
have frightened their hold
in Kiev and are preparing to defend
it from within and without.
Sailors Are ObduFate.
LONDON. March 11.-Petrograd is
now firmly held. and there is little
chance of the Kronstadt revolt spread
ing farther into the mainland. accord
ing to Riga message to the London
Times. The soviet government, how
ever. it is added. is unable to sup
will continue to defy the communists
as long as their food lasts. which. it
is learned from Narva, will be about
four months.
The bolshevik Gen. Tuchatschewski,
in command on the Petrograd front,
has been relieved because of three
serious reverses he suffered. War
Minister Trotsky is reported to have
taken command of headquarters at
Sestroretsk, about twenty miles
Of Petrograd.
The Riga Runischau says that the
Ukrainian anti-bolsheyik Cen. Makno
has taken Yekaterinoslav, in south
ern Russia, and is advancing toward
the Crimea. Soviet adherents at Jeli-
savetgrad. adds the newspaper, have
been shot or hanged by his orders.