The Washington herald., 1921-03-07
Guns of Insurgent War
ship Trained on Petro-
grad, Advices Say.
TERRORISM REIGNS.
MESSAGES REVEAL
Refugees Block Roads
From Russian Capital as
Fall Approaches.


luton In Russia IA spreading
throughout the country. accord
ing 10 a Riga dispatch printed
I'm the Daily Express this morn
ing.
The dispatch addsI
slt In reported that the Mos
COW BoisheyIst officials are be-
ing assassInated everywhere.
ssTke fnhzbItants OF the VIII
lagos are Killing the members
of the food requiSltion parties.
sRisings are reported On Oral.
Brianrk. kursk, Zarston. liver
and Nishni NovoEored.
.Gen. AntonOn's army st
Tamber In cobtroIIiue the cen
tr.I volEs-
THE Astraehan cossacks have
declared against the Soviet gov
ernment.
.Am Of the Baltic heet has
Joined the revoIutIonarIes wks
state they have food supplies
to last thew for months
~Prenicr Lenine ts giving TO-
eOe.oOo gold rubIes 10 purchase
food I'm Western Europe
LO-NDO-Ns .hdEGI N--ENNp L. AEoNNA
Moscow, reaching London via Hels-
ingfors, says the Soviets have been
overpowered by the revolutionaries.
1t is added that bloodiest terror
ism reigns.
The revolutionaries. who held the
warship Petropavlovsk. HelsinEfors
advices say. have trained their guns
on Petrograd. The insurgents have
not obtained control Of the govern
ment building in PetroErad. but il
is believed il will fail under threat
Of the warship's guns.
Dictator Named.
Correspondents in the Baltic re-
ported today that the highways
leading out of Pctrograd are
crowded with fleeing rcfuEees. A
dictator for PetroGrad has been ap-
pointed and martial law invoked.
Some Of the refugees from Petro-
grad reaching border points state
that the Soviet officials have been
posting proclan,stious addressed to
the workmen urging them to have
patience with present conditions
until the arrival Of the ships which
Minister Krassin is sending from
England loaded, with meat. bread
and coal.
RuthIess Terrorism
II is added that the Soviets have
been handling the workmcn with a
gentle hand but are suppressinE the
military mutiny with. ruthless ter
rorism.
Although the restrictions on SELL
ing food have been abolished in
Petrograd. il is added. the city is in
a starving condition.
Russian laborers returning from
America imp-ecnated with Ameri-
can ideas are playing an important
part in the PetroCrad revolution.
additional Baltic dispatches say.
The fact that the Russian foreign
minister has sent out wireless or
ders that the borders are TO be
closed to any more immigrants
from America. is taken as an indi-
cation OF the seriousness Of the In
fluence OF the Americanized Rus
SLAMS.
Sailors Mutiny.
II is regarded as significant that
the sailors mutiny aboard the bat
tleship Petropavlosk and the rising
Of the iron moulders al Nassiiy and
Ostroff began with demonstrations
in which the insurgents shouted:
we want bread: we want work;
We want the liberty OF free trade
and We want a constituent assem-
bly,"
Cadet officers. il is reported. fired
o nthe demonstrators. which was
the beginning of the street lighting.
Address by LenIne.
Dispatches tonight quoted an ad-
dress made recently by Russian Pre-
mier Lenine before the Moscow So
viets. concerning the demonstrations
in Petrograd and Moscow on the
protest against the fuel shortage.
These are unfortunate days"
Lenine said, but We have lived
through even far greater diffculties
in the past.
I'VE are well acquainted with our
enemy. and we expect to beat him
finally this spring"
Lenine admitted a serious falling
on in the food ration in Moscow.
Moscow Adytces.
The Moscow advices added that
reports had reached the capital that
the old Czarist general Kozlowski.
with a few BLACK Hundred" fol-
lowers, had caused some disturb
ance at Kronstadt. but il was add
ed that Moscow as Vet had no def
mite reports from the scene Of the
rising about PetroGrac-
kozlowski came into fame in the
first instance as the judge advocate
who Investigated Gen. Korniloff's
plot against the Soviet government
some time back. When the Ger
mans were marching on Petrograd
and were before Brest- -LftovSk, the
Soviet appointed kozlowski as the
commandant of Petrograd. He was
a general staff officer of the Cars
army when Russia was fightinE on
the side of the allies.