Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-03-11
REBELS CLOSE IN
ON OLD CAPITAL
Petrourad in Flames as Soviet
Chiefs Flee City.
TRoTzKY is NOW DICTATOR
War Minister Put in Supreme Som-
mand of the Reds-Harding ana
Hoover Appealed To for Aio
by -Bolshevists.

by nti-BolSneVlStS.
London. March S.--War Minister
Trotzky of Russia has been appoint
ed dictator of the Bolshevik govern
tment and has been vested with unllm-
tied powers to handle the revolution
ary situation, according to Helsing-
ifors dispatch to the Exchange Iele-
graph.
London. March S.-The Central.
News correspondent at Helsingfors re-
ports receipt of news of the most Sc
rous character from Petrograd slncei
midnight The advices said many OF
the residential and business quarters
were in flames.
The soviet government, the message!
continued, was dispatching large
number of troops from Moscow to Pc
trograd to assist in restoring order.
The Petrograd rebels, it was ADDED.
were planning to extend to these
troops friendly reception in the nope
of winning them over.
Paris, March S.-Russian bolshevisti
forces have been driven out OF Gram
ienbaum, a town on the southern shore
of the Gulf of Finland, 10 miles west
of Petrograd, by naval units from!
kronstadt, says dispatch from VI
borg.
Warships have gone up the Neval
river and landed contingents OF sall-l
ors in PetrOgrad, where part OF a
garrison has joined the revolutionary
lies. The rest of the garrison Is de-
cleared to have retreated toward Gat-i
ichina, 80 miles southwest, where Leon
iTrotzky, minister of war, and the Boil
shevist high command have headquar-
tiers.
! Late dispatches from various SourceSi
confirm reports that the soviet govern
lment Of Russia is facing a situationl
lof extreme gravity and is strugglingt
against veritable revolutionary move.
iment.
/ Ask Harding and Hoover for Aid.
+: The Russian parliamentary cOmmit-l
tee In Paris" today sent messages to-
President Harding and Herbert HoOv-l
:er, secretary of commerce, soliciting
help In the form of food and other
,necessaries for the anti-Bolsheviki in
Kronstadt and Petrograd. The mes
the committee.
Soviet leaders are terrified and NikO-
ilai Lenin, Bolshevist premier, and M.
Trotzky are preparing for flight, says
"a Reval dispatch to the Matin.
commissars Flee to Esthonia.
:sars, abandoned by their troops, havel
taken refuge in Esthonia, according TOT
ia wireless message picked up by the
jEiffel towed station.
Commissioners Zinoviev and Kalinin
and several of the other Bolshevist
commissioners at Petrograd are re-
ported to have taken flight and to have
been arrested at Isborg (Viborg?), ac-
Ecording to the wireless advices.
/ Maxim Litvinov, chief Of soviet
Legations abroad, Is said by the same
;advices to have embarked In a Boil,
,shevist vessel at Reval after drawing
ian important sum from the bank there.
The garrison Of Kraynoya Gorko,
NEAR Petrograd, has rallied to the anti
iBolshevist cause, says wireless mes
lsage given out by the French foreign
ioffice.
The town of Pskov near the Es-
lthonian border, is reported to havel
been captured by insurgents who
marched there.
The anti-Bolshevist leader, Antonoff,
lat the head of $4,000 armed peasants.
Iis declared to be in control of the
government of Voronezh and Tambov.
lin southern Russia, and it is said this
fact makes 1t possible to revictual the
northern sections of the country.