The Washington herald., 1921-03-08
KERENSKY GOES
TO END RULEOF
TOTTERINC REDS
Former Ruler of Russia
Leaves Paris to Join
Revolution.
SEES REPUBLIC
LIKE AMERICA
Peasant Army, 100000
Strong, Now Marching
On Moscow, He Says.
Especial Gable to The Herald.)

PARIS, March s.-Kerensky. one
time ruler of Russia, left Paris for
Reval tonight, to personally assume
of the movement to over
throw the Soviets. The details Of
the program under which Kerensky
will work were drawn up by the
Russian revolutionary committee in
Paris in January. 1t has since been
revised and approved by allied mill
tary and diplomatic chiefs.
On the eve of his departure Ke-
rensky explained his plans.
This is the beginning Of the end
for Lenine,' he said. within six
months Russia will no longer be a
Communist state, but republic
modelled on the American Declara-
tion of Independence.
Revolt L. Spreading.
The movement which began Feb
ruary Is at Kronstadt Is spreading
throughout Russia like a forest FIRE.
Pesants in the Ukraine, the north
ern Caucasus. the Crimea and in
Western Siberia have revolted.
My latest information is that
,Petrograd has been taken by re-
voting Red troops allied with the
kronstadt marines. 1t was captured
Saturday night and the fighting is
still going on on the outskirts. In
the south the peasant army. 10o,-
900 strong. is marching from Kief
to Moscow commanded by Gen.
Boukhartine, who was formerly sec
ond in command under Gen. Wran-
gel.
Sees Allied support.
We are confident of support by
the allied governments to whom all
plans for the counter revolution
were submitted in January. Our
committee in Paris today cabled
Washington demanding the active
aid of the American government,
which can best be given in food
supplies, medicines, bandages and
chemicals"
LONDON, March War Minister
Trotsky, of Russia, has been ap-
pointed dictator of the Bolshevik
government and has been vested
with unlimited powers to handle the
revolutionary situation, according
to a Helsingford's dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph tonight.
1t is added that Trotsky has left
Moscow for Petrograd where the
revolution appears to have gained
its greatest headway.
VIBoRG. Finland. March Red
troops which started for Petrograd
to suppress revolutionary forces,
have been forced to retire at CAT
china Ei1nnaatar. L.
grad, according to dispatches re-
ceived here today.
Concentrate Forces.
The reports said many of the Red
soldiers deserted their comrades to
join the mutinous sailors and the
workers. Leon Trotsky, minister of
war. was said to be concentrating
forces at Gatchina- preparatory to
a drive on Petrograd.
Sailors from Kronstadt, forcing
ice breakers into Oranienbaum. were
said to have driven Soviet officials
from the city.
Twenty-Five Bolshevik commssars.
abandoned by their troops in the
vicinity of Petrograd. have fed into
Esthonia, the French foreign office
in Paris was advised today. The
report said several were arrested
before reaching the border.
1t was reported that Boris Lit
vinoff. trade commissioner for the
Bolsheviki. made a sensational es-
cape, in a Red battleship whose
crew remained loyal. He was said
to have taken with him all the
Bolshevik funds collected at Reval.
Great fires are sweeping through
Petrograd. according to couriers
The reflection OF the flames is Wis
ible on the Finnish frontier.
According to advices to the State
Department, which the authorities
regard as reliable, the Bolshevik
regime in Russia is rapidly crumb-
ling under the ever increasing
weight of revolution.
1t is reported further that work
men who have recently returned to
Russia from America are leaders of
the revolutionists, are anti-Bolshe-
vik. and are playing an important
part in the present outbreak. The
strikes by laborers of Petrograd
have increased in number and vio-
lence. and crowds are reported to be
|congregating in the streets in de-
fiance of the military orders issued
by the Soviet regime.
In other parts of Russia disaffec-
tion on the part of the Soviet troops
is increasing Uprisings of pea sa nf q