The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-06
SIEGE AT PETROGRAD
Lenine, in Moscow, Acts to
Curb Spread Of Revolution
Sweeping the Country
RAIL TRAFFIC DEMoRALIzE
All Trains West of Moscow
Are Suspended; Narships
Join in the Mutiny

LONDON, March 5-rho most
/ dangerous counter revolutionary
movement against the Russian soviet
government since its creation more
than three years ago is under way
and is spreading, according to ad.
| vices received here today.
An lfchanse Teleeraph dispatch
| from Copenhagen this afternoon
said Premier Lcninc had issued a
! proclamation at Moscow declaring
/ Koslovsky and his confcdefatcs at
Patrograd outlaws. \ state OF siege
has been declared at Pctrograd.
All railway traffic west Of Mos
cow had been suspended, said a dis
patch to the Daily Express.
Tho Russo Rumanian frontier has
been closed owing to an anti-bolshe-
yik uprising at Odessa.
Warships Join In Revolt.
Warships have Joined the revolt
at Petrosrad.
General Semenoff with $4,000 an
ti-bolshevik Cossacks is reported ad-
vancing through Siberia.
The Moscow wireless in a message
today said that the Georgian peas
ants who had revolted against the
MensheyIks had requested French
warships to lombard the districts
held by tho "Whites."
Private dispatches received during
the afternoon said that the counter
revolutionary movement was gaining
i'm Russia despite the vigorous meas
ures OF the soviet to combat It,
There are indications that Russia
will not he able to make her report
cd offensive against Poland and Ru-
mania in the spring. Il In reported
that troops are being constantly
withdrawn from the front to main
tain order in tho interior.
Demand Insurgents Release.
THE Russian rebels at Petrograd
have served an ultimatum on the
soviet demanding the release Of all
the imprisoned insurgents" said an
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Copenhagen this afternoon
The bblshevik diplomatic rcprp
sentativcs at Reval and elsewhere,
in the Baltic states, were said to beN
deeply distressed at the trend of
events in Russia. Boris Lityinoff.
head Of the Russian delegation at
Reval. the chief doorway through
which Russia communicates with
tho outside world. has asked for
protection by tho Esthonian govern
ment and tho red flag has been re-
moved from the Russian legation.
The following radiogram was rc-
ceivcd from Kronstadt, the fortress
defending Petrograd on the sea side:
Power has passed into the hands
OF a temporary revolutionary COM
mittee headed by General Kozlovsky |
TO whom both the fleet and garrison |
are loyal. A call has been issued to |
all the Whites in Russia to Join the |
present government"
Like Overthrow of Car.
According TO advices from Riga. |
the counter revolution IL pursuing |
lines similar to those which resulted |
In the overthrow OF the czar. The |
however. which has broken |
out at some places is said to be |
much fiercer than that which ac- |
the overthrow OF the |
Romanoffs. Rebel workmen at Pc |
-rograd, assisted by soldiers and sail
prs and battleships. have captured |
all Of the right bank'of the Nevsky |
~ well as all OF the important rail-
way stations. Among the ships that
went over TO the insurgents was the
'ruiser petropaylosk.
The rebels at Pctrograd We're near /
y defeated at one juncturc. Al the
'ritical moment rumhcr ~ rcd
roops went over TO them, however
The soviet commander called up
'eserves from Pskov, Luga, Yam
1urg and other places and is mass
ng them on the outskirts Of Petro-
;rad,
Revolution Wen Organized.
The counter revolution is COM
,letely organized" said Riga dis
,atch to the Daily Express. "Reac-
ionary cries Of down with the rcds'
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