The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-11
REVOLT is SPREAD
All Russia Affected by Anti
Soviet Uprising.
KrOnstadt Rebels Send Ulti-
matum to BOIshevik Leaders.
WILL DESTROY PETROGRAD
Whole Country Faces Famine
Siberian Supply Cut.
Food Trains From East Are
Being Held Up.
WILL DESTROY PETROGRAD

London, -Iarch 11-Trustworthy
news received from the interior of
Russia, says a dispatch to the London
Times from Reval, shows that anti
soviet revolts are spreading thruout
the country.
The food situation is becoming ca
tastrophic. no food trains having
reached the cou try from Siberia
since February II. The situation is
made more serious thru the congestion
of the transport system. On the main
railway from Perm to Vologda 800
trains are being held up.
UItimatum to Soviet.
1t is announced, the dispatch con-
tinues, that forty t. tcusand commL mist
troops are approaching Petrograd but
that their. loyalty is doubted. A Chi
nese regiment is reported to have been
destroyed.
Revolutionary authorities at the
fortress of Kronstadt have sent an ul-
timatum to the soviet authorities in
Petrograd, demanding the surrender
of the city before March 25. If the
city is not given up, the ultimatum
declares, there will be a general bonn
bardment, it is asserted in an Abo,
Finland, dispatch to the London
Times. Wholesale arrests and execu-
CURED at Oranienbaum, Systerbak and
Petrograd.
Rebels Well Supplied.
Kronstadt last night sent out wire
less dispatch denying Bolsheviki state
ments that the fortress was without
food, says telegram from Stockholm.
To the contrary, there is plenty of food
and ammunition there, the message
stated.
in the vicinity of Minsk, White Russia,
is reported in a Reuter- dispatch from
Helsingfors. Soviet troops are said to
have mutinied and murdered Boil
sheviki commissary there. Another
dispatch mentions street fighting be-
tween the Bolsheviki and anti-soviet
units in Kiev.
Pctrograd Under Smoke PAN.
Berlin, March 11.-Great clouds of
smoke rolled over Petrograd late yes
terday, according to the Copenhagen
National Tidende. The paper declared
the smoke was visible from the Fin
nish coast.
The Petrograd wireless station was
silent today. indicating a possibility
that soviet operations had withdrawn.
The last bulletin caught from it was
IN reply to an outside query as to who
was in control there. THE sopiets are
masters of the situation in Petrograd." ;"
was the quick answer
Reports from Russia continued to
be conflicting, but apparently Kron-
stadt was still in the hands of rebels,
serious fighting was progressing in
Petrograd and nearby towns while in
MOSCOW the government appeared
secure.
Trotzky in Uniform.
An apparently reliable report said
that Trotzky entered the garrison at
krasna Gorka yesterday at the head
OF three regiments. For the time,
Trotzkyi had discarded his plain leath-
form, distinguishing him as a field
marshal. Trotzky established head
quarters Immediately and spent eight
cen hours comforting with couriers
from the Petrograd district.
The al1-Russian congress is under
way at Moscow, Premier Lenine ap-
pea-ing In person to announce the
governments decision. One statement
arousing great discussion was the pro-
posal of new food policy to permit
peasants to sell their surplus products
in the city after giving the government
portion of the crop.
Abandon Food Program.
1t was stated the proposal was in
tended to provide the cities with food
the peasants, perhaps giving them
more of an incentive for producing
Objections were raised by numerous
delegates that such move would
throw Russia back into capitalistic
regime.
A large gathering of demobilized
soldiers was called in Moscow yester-
day to adopt a resolution declaring
they will devote themselves to eco
nomic reconstruction. An added
clause said, however, that in case the
soviet regime is endangered, they will
return to fighting.
The first soviet reception to foreign
representatives brought representa-
tives of six countries into the soviet
court"