The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-03-13
PUTS
. FOE T0FL|GHT
Leads Red Troops to Victory.
Rebels Beaten All Along
Coast in Big Battle.
1000 DESERTERS ARE SHOT
Vigorous Fighting is Reported in
M0scoW-RevoIt Grows in
South Russia.
1000 DESERTERS ARE SHOT

LONDON, March I3.-Delegntes
sent by the revoIutionaries In COM
troll OF kronstadt to open pourpar-
Ieurs with Bolshevfk officials were
executed by Red troops, according to
Newspaper dispatches from Hell
sinsfors today.
STOCKHOLM, March I3.-Soviet
officials At PetrOgrad have formally
declared war upon the evolutionary
forces mt krOnstadt, according to
ndvices reaching here today.
Inmediate convOcatiOn OF a prop
erly constituted admi nistratiye
body was demanded at n heavily
attended meeting Of workers mt
PetroGrRd, il was reported.
Striking workmen expelled many
Soviet officials from the city.
HELSINGFORS, March 13.-The
Bolsheviks have recaptured Petro-
grad from the revolutionaries, ac-
cording to dispatch reaching here
today from the Russian Union
Agency.
Boishevik troops in the neighbor-
hood of Petrograd were reinforced
from Moscow and have ssaceede4 n
suppressinR the uprisink, II vas
stated. Only 3 small. section of the
city remains in the hands of the
revolutionists.
SOVIET HOLDS COAST.
A heavy battle which began Friday
night has ended with the re-estab-
lishment of government forces all
along the coast, it was reported.
Heavy casualties were reported on
both sides.
The newspaper Izvestia reported
that $500 deserters from Petrograd
garrisom were shot against a wall.
A courier who arrived at the Fin
nish border from Moscow reported
vigorous fighting in the capital.
Heavy guns were mounted in the
streets, he declared, and the city as
sumed aspects of a huge fort.
TROTZkY LEADS TROOPS.
The BoIshevtk troops at PetroEraA
were under the personal supervision
Of Leon Trotxky. Bolshevfk minister
OF war, who directed the attack on
the city.
Serious fighting was reported from
all sections of the country.
1t was semi-oTicially admitted that
COMMUNICATION WIN SIBERIA nau peen
broken by anti-Bolsheviki but Sow
lets maintained the uprising was
merely the result of dissatisfaction
with the food shortage and not
direct attack on the Bolshevk
regime.
Russian refugees at the Finnish
border reported the Soviet power had
been broken in Kieff, south of Mos
COW, an important rail center.
Red forces were said to be desert
ing and had aided in overpowering
the commissars in Tambov and Orel.
large cities in Central and Southern
Russia.
The revolt in South Russia was re-
were widespread that several cities
in the South had been captured by
the revolutionaries, Ukrainian troops.
LONDON, March 13-Leon Trotzky
Bolshevik minister of war. had 4
narrow escape from death under
shell fire from rebel guns near Petro-
grad, according to the following Gen.
trail News dispatch from Helsingfors
"Trotzky has returned to Petro-
grad. The train which bore him had
just cleared Oranienbaum when shells
from the fortress OF Kronstadt ex-
ploded behind it, tearing up a long
stretch of the line.
According to Finnish military
frontier guards, the fort at Krasnaya
Gorka, on the Russian mainland pear
Kronstadt. is again in the hands OF
the anti-red rebels"