The Washington herald., 1921-04-11
RUSSIAN REBELS
FEDBY YREDCROSS
In FINNISH CAMPS
Inside Story of Latest Re.
-, volt Brought Out by
Soldiers.
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By EDMOND sTRATTON.

TERIJoKI, Finland, March a.
= delayed. Here in this popular
watering place on the Baltic and in
: Ihs neighboring village of Ino, the
American Red Cross is feeding
about 1000 Russian sailors and solz
diers and about ninety Russian
women and children in Finnish gov
ernment internment camps.
On the night of st. Patrick's Day
this army of refugees, the pick Of
the Red armies, retreated from the
Russian island fortress Of kron-
ostadt across the ice of the Gulf of
Finland. At their heels were thou
sands of Chinese and Bashkiri,
brought by Trotzky to maintain the
authority of the Bolshevik Emperor,
Lenin-
: The Kronstadt has been put down,
but the thunder of it's cannon still is
echoing louder and louder through
out Russia.
l met Sailor Petritshenko, chair
man of the revolutionary committee,
together with the chief of the gen.
eral stan, Arkannikoff. They were a
bit nervous, wondering whether
their time had come, but after chat
tering for a few moments they told
their side of the revolt.
Tells of Political situation.
.., What we might call the politI-
: cal situation was narrated by
Petritshenko.
1T is no secret" he said, that
local revolts are taking place in
various sections of Russia Dis
content is growing for both eco
Romical and moral reasons. Some
time ago there were strikes among
the workmen of Petrograd and
parts of the army were in sympa-
thy with the strikers.
THE following day. March 4. ar
airplane few over Kronstadt.' drop
a ping a demand by Trotzky to de-
liver leaders of the revolt and &c
turn over the forts to the Com
munists. Next day. March I, the
Bolshevist batteries at Sestroretsk
and Lisyi Nos opened fire upon US
- We knew we were in for il. anc
we answered.
Are you or any Of the commit.
tee interested in any particular po'
litical faction?'
volt was an elementary movement
to get rid of Bolshevist suppression
Once that is downed. the will oil
the people will soon manifest IT.
self"
- Attack by BoIsheviki.
~"Arkannikofr. the military chic
of the revolt. said:
The first infantry attack cam,
from the Lisyi Nos side on Marcr
3. but was easily beaten back. The
small batteries of Sestroretsk
Lisyi Nos. and Tarhofka were sooI
silenced by our big guns. Another
infantry attack came from Oranien.
baum. Very few got back TO tn,
shore alive.
FINALLY on the night OF Marcel
is the final attack came. All NIGH
long they bombarded US, while tn,
infantry, mostly dressed in white
rrawled over the ice toward us from
all sides. Just how many they
We're do not know: probably 10000
maybe more. maybe less. wher
the first rays of light appeared on
the morning of the 17th they came
up in mass formation and made a
rush for US.
Garrison Heavily Outnumbered.
We did not have enough infantry
to meet them, as the whole gar
rison Of Kronstadt numbered about
5000 men. including sailors and
- sgunners- and we also had about
5000 armed workmen scattered
about the island. which is about six
miles long and of varying width,
approximately a mile wide.
Before they arrived our twelve
inch guns struck down whole coll
umns and the machine guns killed
thousands. But they had too many
men The most bitter fight LASTED
% from about in the morning until
IL, when we knew there was nc
hope.
The stan then ordered the main
forces to leave the island. as to
stay meant death by the Chinese,
who never take prisoners. We re-
moved the breech locks from most
OF the guns and destroyed military
equipment as best we could, and
left under cover of fire from Fort
. Reaf"
Copyright, ls21.)