Evening star., 1921-03-15
BOLSHEV|KS LOSING
GRIP UPON ARMIES,
TURN TO WORKERS
Rebels in Kronstadt, Con.
trolling Situation There. Re-
Iy on U. S. Food.
ALL-RUSSIAN CONGRESS
SEES MENACE IN WAR
Firm Resistance to End for What
Was Gained Four Years Ago"
Is Advocated.

LONDON. March I5.-Disturb-
nnccs nrc reported TO he occurring
hourly in Moscow, and the soviet
authorities, in rounding up sympa-
thizers with the revolutionary
movement, have mnssacred several
hundred persons with machine
guns, says n HclsinEfors dispatch
to the Central News today. mn
jority Of the reports regarding the
situation in Moscow are most
gloomy. the dispatch adds.
1t is reported the soviet troops
or the Rumaninn front have been
ordered to the Ukraine to suppress
extensive risinga there. The sit
untiOn in Odexna is said to be crit
fcal, the garrison. with the excep-
tiOn OF two regiments isOlated near
the hnrbOr, having Joined the
rebels.
By the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM. March 15. Russian
bolshevik authorities seem TO be los
ing control of the soviet troops, it is
said in dispatches received here from
Finland and Esthonia. These mes
sages, for the most part confused and
unreadable, were pouring into this
city yesterday and last night.
Artillery fire from the fortress of
kronstadt was directed yesterday
along the southern coast of the Gulf
of Finland between Oranien baum and
Petrograd. Bolshevik artillerymen in
krasnaya Gorka shelled and destroyed
the lighthouse at Tollbaaben, OF
kronstadt. during the day.
A man who had just arrived from
Kronstadt was interviewed on Sunday
night and he emphatically denied
bolshevik reports that some of the
Kronstadt forts had been captured by
the bolsheviki. He said the revolu-
tionary leadership was wholly in the
hands of laborers, and he declares the
fight for the fortress would be long
one. as the garrison of kronstadt was
relying on getting food stores from
the American Red Cross station at
Viborg, Finland.
Refugees reaching Stockholm from
Petrograd say that the streets OF
that city are strongly patrolled by
soviet troops. and they declare that
the ordinary bolshevik soldiers are
no longer to be trusted.
Reds In Plea to Workers.
LONDON, March 15.-The tenth all
Russian congress OF the bolshevik
party, in session in Moscow. has
issued an appeal to the workers of
Petrograd to stand firmly to the end
for what was gained four years ago."
SAYS a wireless dispatch from Moscow
tooay. The appeal says:
The enemies of the working classes
are trying to kindIe the name Of q
new civil war and are striving 70 ning
us into endless calanfities by means
of risings, strikes and the destruction
Of the railways thus preventing the
movement of fuel. food and raw ma
terials This at the moment when the
congress is considering better organ
ization of the trades unions and how
their direction can be brought in
closer touch with production; how
is to be increased: easing
of the fuel and food crisis: reduction
of the red army. and the arranging
of more stable peace conditions with
all states.
THE leader of the Kronstadt rising,
Tyurkin, is a former czarist secret
(PreviOuS dispatches con-
cerning the revolt in Kronstadt have
not mentioned the name Of Tyurkin)
Will blockade kronntadt.
Leon Trotzky. the Russian soviet
war minister. according TO advices
received here today. has decided TO
blockade Kronstadt. despite the fact
that this will entail great suffering
to the 5000 women and children in
the town.
The reason for Trotzkys unwilling
ness to lombard the town is the pres
ence of the warship PetropavloAk,
which he is anxious to retain intNbt.
the advices said.