The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-10
Bitter Disappointment at Find
ingTruth of Soviet Cause.
More BOlsheyik Troops Desert
to New Revolution.
SOVIET LEADERS IN FLIGHT
Red Assault on Fortress of
KrOnstadt Failure.
Moscow Continues to Issue En-
phatic Denials.

Riga, March 10.-Three brigades OF
Bolshegik soldiers in Moscow have de-
serted and Joined the revolutionary
forces, it is said, in advices received
here. The action of the soldiers was
prompted by the very acute food sit
uation in the soviet capital.
U. S. Reds in Lead.
The Hague, March 1O.-According
to the Reval correspondent of the Rot
terdam Maasbode, Russian radicals re-
Gently deported from the United States
are playing a prominent part in the
new revolution in Russia.
This correspondent asserts the de-
ported Russians had great expecta-
tions of Russia, but were bitterly dis
appointed when they found, he said,
that the communistic regime repre-
sented nothing but a sentence to an
indefinite term of hard labor without
adequate food"
Petrograd Is Cut Off.
Copenhagen, March 10.-Tnere was
virtually no firing during the day yes
terday between the combatant groups
in the Petrograd area, according 10
Helsingfors correspondent of the Poh-
tiken The stream of fugitives from
Russia into Finland has almost ceased
the correspondent reports. pointing 10
the conclusion that Petrograd has been
cut off.
The effects of the Bolsheviki fire
upon Eronstadt are declared TO nave
been small whereas great damage Is
reported to have been caused in Petro-
grad by the firing from the outsiue'
Rcd Forces Retreat.
Helsingfors. March 10.-Repulsed
after determined attempts to recap
n L.,
sheyik forces have withdrawn, leaN-
ing hundreds of bodies lying on the
ice, according to advices received mere
today.
Conflicting reports were received re-
s.ardfng the situation in Pctrograd.
1t was believed to be in the hands
of the revolutionaries except for the
fortress of Saints Peter and Paui-
The revolt was spreading thruout
Russia. marked especially by new up
was said to have been employed IN
the streets of the capital where num-
dreds of rioting printers and factory
hands were mown down.
News of the revolution is being
scattered broadcast by the Petrograd
rebels. who are making use of the
wireless station there to urge demon
STATIONS in other regions.
A soviet victory was reported from
Kalomn. southeast of Moscow, where
rebel force was Sdlu u nave bCSh
suppressed by Red troops.
Revolt Growing Rapidly.
London, March 1O.-The Russian
revolution is r.pidly attaining the
PROPORTIONS of the 1917 coup which
overthrew cZardom, according TO mes
sagos delivered to former Premier
Kcrensky here today.
Advices reaching Kerensky said
eastern giberia is in revolt. the activ-
itv centering in Omsk and Tomsk.
Messages dated Tuesday declare
that the rebels have seized Pskoff,
south of Petrograd, and that the re-
volt is rapidly radiating from Petro-
grad" Kerensky said.
Much of the province of Novo-
gorod, between Moscow and Petro-
grad. is in rebel hands. The city of
Novogorod may have fallen now. Our
detachments are known to be en- route
TO the railway junction of Bologoyia,
half way between Petrograd and
Moscow.
.'Petrograd garrisons, including Lyz-
zynossis and Krasna Gorda have yield
ed and there is bitter fighting in
Petrograd. An uprising in the Ural
mountains is also reported
soviet leaders in Flight.
official reports in Riga state that
Petrograd has fallen to the anti Boil
sheviks, according to the correspond
ent of the Times. Soviet leaders were
said to have escaped IN dutohoDlles.
T .d forces were declared to have been
dictated at .Gatchona and Krasnoe
Selo.
Russian rebels are demoralized. the
official Moscow wireless declares in
the regular news bulletin.
Mutinous sailors in Kronstadt have
rebelled against the authority of Gen.
eral Koslovski, czarist general who
has directed the campaign in Petro-
grad. The bulletin denied there had
been heavy defeats for government
forces.
Communication with Siberia has
been cut for more than two weeks
according to unofficial Moscow reports
Dispatches yesterday said anti-Bol-
sheyilx uprisings were beginning with
initial successes already claimed by
General Semenoff whose troops were
reported under command of Grand
Du1xe Michael the former czars