New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-30
AdvanceForce of Frenzied
Horde Storms Tamboff. !.
Loots Stores and Eats
Fire Department Horses
Red Guards Refuse
To Fire ON Mobs
Special Shock Troops to
Defend Cities; Workers
Slain in Petrograd Riot
By Joseph Shaplen
Special Gable to The Trihune

Copyright, 1921, New York Tribune Inc.
BERLIN, July 29.-Six million hun
cry and ragged peasants are marching
on Moscow in an effort to get food,
according to the official Bolshevik
newspaper in the capital, Izvestia The
vanguard of these starving hordes has
reached Tamboff, and, maddened by
hunger, has overwhelmed the Red
army detachments stationed in that
city. looted all the stores and ware
houses, seized every morsel of food,
and even killed and devoured the
horses belonging to the city's fire de-
partment.
Izvestia admits that the Red guard
at Iamboff refused to fire on the mobs.
- SIMILAR lnvasions have occurred at
1aroslav and Mini Novgorod.
Panic stricken by the advance of
COW. the Soviet war ccmmissariat is
rapidly forming special bodies of
shock troops, consisting of sharp
shooters and cavalry, for the defense
Of Moscow and Petrograd. The only
persons admitted to these bodies are
able-bodied young men who have
passed through the special military
and political courses established by
Munster. OF War Trotzky Special
Communist detachments, made up only
OF tired and true Communists, are be-
ing formed for the defense of other
leading cities and the protection of
the railway junction at Kiev. These
detachments are being placed under
the authority of provincial extraor-
dlnary commissions.
Workers Shot Down in Petroprad
Many workers are reported to have
been killed or wounded in a labor dem
onstration in Petrograd, in which 5000
working men and women advanced on
the offices of the Petrograd Soviet. de-
mandlng bread. The reply of the Red
ottclals was to meet the assembled
proletarians with several squadrons of
klrgiz cavalry, which fired into the
crowds. In the panic that ensued
the laborers broke ranks and fled, leav-
ing their dead and wounded in front
of the Soviet building.
The massacre so reused the ire of
the working population in Petrograd
thai. all the large factories were i'm
mn,edlateiy closed by a protest strike.
The strike started in the Baltic G. PHI
tiloff works.
The Bolsheviki placed the city under
martial law. and armed patrols, accom- :
panied by agents of the extraordinary
commission, invaded the working class
quarters and searched all dwellings
Systematically
These patrols warned the workers
that if they refused to 20 back to
work they would be Immediately ar
rested. Most of the men and women
agreed to return, but hundreds who ir
nored the summons, were placed under
arrest.
The search of the dwellings lasted
all the night of July 19 and 20. By
energetic action the Red authorities =
hnally succeeded in breaking up the
strike and forcing all the workers to
go back to their factories.
Appeals To U. s. Women
Catherine Breshkovsky, grandmother
of the Russian revolution" to-day for
warded to the Tribune correspondent
from Prague this appeal to the women
Of America to come to the aid of the
starving Russian people:
"A great part of mankind, a very
great and beautiful part of the human
family, is perishing from hunger, pow
erty and disease. A great part of
European Russia is being depleted Of
its population. The fields and mead
ows, woods and valleys of my fair
country are stricken with a terrible
calamity.
For thousand years Russia stood
guard over the culture of mankind,
protecting the West from the onrush
OF Eastern hordes who were ready to
drown in blood the triumphs of human
reason and spirit, and took upon her
self the blows of barbarism.
ut was for this reason that, despite
their great natural capacities, the Rus