Evening star., 1921-03-07
KRONSTADT JOINS
RED OVERTHROW;
PETROGRAD AF|RE
All Classes in Great Naval
Base Unite to Escape
BoIshevik Yoke.
LENIN AND TROTSKY GET
READY TO FLEE CAPITAL
Russian Committee in Paris Ap-
peals to President Harding and
Hoover for Food Supplies.
by the Associated Press.

4AOOSSA 1VA 4OOu SuPPAASo'
BY the Associated I'ress.
HELSINGFORS. Finland, March =
All classes of citizens at Kronstadt,
the great Russian naval base near
Petrograd, have united IN the uprising
against the soviet government. says a
dispatch to the Russian union agency
here.
Organization Of revolutionary
committee. which later became the
provisional government. was carried
out without participation of political
parties, and its members were chosen
almost exclusively from seamen and
workmen having no political aff1lia-
tions.
The provisional government has
published Il program. the agency an
nounces, the essence of which is a de-
mand for imm ediate convention of a
constituent assembly and the restora-
ton of freedom of trade between in
dividuals.
Troops Coming From Moscow.
LONDON, March THE Central
News correspondent at Helsingfors
reports receipt of nef*s Of the most
serious character from Petrograd
since midnight. The advices said
many of the reside ntiai and business
quarters were in flames.
The soviet government. the message
continued. was dispatching a large
number of troops from Moscow to
Petroerad 10 assist in restoring order
The Petrograd rebels, it was added.
were planning TO extend to these
troops friendly reception in the
hope of winning the IN over.
A wireless message received from
Moscow today says:
The leaders of the PAtrograd rising
are Petrichenko. Yakovlenko and
SavchenkO father of Serge Savchen-
ko: Capt. Vladimir Burtseff. Eng
Oryeskin and former clergyman.
Putilin. Although Gen koZclovski
has been reckoned the official head, he
is in no way the principal leader Of
the movement. The generals two
brothers We're arrested in The marine
school in Petrograd."
The foregoing dispatch. showing the
existence of revolt in Pe,rogrs d,
comes from Official soviet sources. the
Moscow wireless service being con-
Quoted by the Russian soviet authori-
ties. This Official statement that
revolt actually has occurred follows
closely recent declarations from
highest Russian authorities that no
uprising existed in Petrograd.
warships Land sailors.
PARIS. March 1.-Russian bolshevik
forces have been driven out Of Ora
nienbaum. a town on the southern
shore Of the Gulf of Finland, nineteen
miles ives, of Petrograd. by naval
forces from Kronstsdt. says a dis
patch from Viborg.
Warships have gone up the Nevd
river. and landed contingen,s of sail
ors in Petrograd where part of A
garrison has Joined the revolutionists
The rest Of the garrison is declared
TO have retreated toward Gatchina
thirty miles southwest where Leon
Trotsky. minister of war. and the
bolshevik high command have head
quarters
Soviet leaders are terrified and
Nikoiai Lenin. bolshevik premier and
NJ Trotsky are preparing for flight.
says a Revai dispatch to the Natin.
Anti -bolshevik Leader Antoror at
th>bead Of 5o000 armed peasants.
is declared TO be in control ot the
governments of Noronezh and Tam
bov. in southern Russia, and il is
sa id that this fact makes il impossi-
Die 10 revictual the northern sections
Of the country
Soviet Faces Crisis.
Late dispatches from various
soviet government Of Russia is facing
situation OF extreme gravity and
IS struggling against a veritabIe rev
olut iorary movement.
Twenty-Five soviet Russian com
missaries who had been .abandoned
by their troops. have taken refuge
IN F.s,honja. according to a wireless
message picked up by the EireI
Tower station this afternoon
The garrison of krasnoya Gorko,
near Petrograd. has ra allied 10 the
anti-boishevik cause. says a wireless
message given out today by The
French foreign office.
The town OF Pskov. near the Estho-
Man border. IS reported 10 have been
captured by insurgents, who marched
there.
comm iSsa ries Zinivien and Kalinin
and several Of the other boIshevj K
commissaries ~ Petrograd are re-
ported 20 have taken flight and to
have been arrested at isborg wi
borbeD according to the wireless ad-
vices.
Maxim l.itvi noT. chief Of soviet le-
cations abroad. as said by the same
advices 10 have embarked in "A boi-
sheviki vessel of Reval after draw
ING an important sum from the bank
there.
The Russian Parliamentary com
mittee IN Paris Today sent messages
to President Harding and Herbert
Hoover. Secretary OF Commerce So
(icitine help in the form of food and
other necessaries for the anti bolshc-
vik: in Kronstadt and Petrograd The
messages were signed by N K edrine
of the committee.