Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1921, Page 13

b 3 RQNSTADT FALLS d Leader Hurls 60,000 Men at Defenses of the Fortress. the Associated Press. TOCKHOLM, March 18.—Reports t§at the Russign naval fortress of onstadt, the center of the revolu- tPn against the soviet sovernment, hi§s been taken by the bolsheviki ap- ¥8ar to be confirmed in dispatches I hing here from Finland. lLeon Tgotsky, Russian bolshevik minister of war,’ directed the assault on the fdrt. it is said, and hurled upward off 60,000 men at its defenses. Advices would Seem to indicate tHat commupists within the _fort agd town of Kronstadt assisted the balshevik forces when the latter had beoken into the outer forts of the place. The garrison, numbering approxi- “mbtely 15,000, is declared to have bgen exhausted by the constant bom- bardment of the place, and Wwas pdorly equipped ne important nE:m along the defense lines. any of the defenders of Kron- stadt, together with the commander the revolutionary troops, are re- ported to have escaped into Finland agross the ice. Attack Was F TOCKHOLM, rch 1 The fight- 1 for possession armed fort was of a furious ch ter. and tie attacking forces from the town at least or inf to reports received her ejected accord- 'he engagement began Wednesday evbning with artillery preparation, in which all the shore batteries joined. Great damage was done and many ns were injured by the falling bulldings. The bombardment culmi- Mated in a most intense drumfire, and at' 3 o'clock Thursday morning the Ruasian soviet war minister, Trotsky, in: command of the holsheviki, lagached his main from . Oranienbaum. i _For the assault here Trotsky had . concentrated the whole of the new sepe th army, consisting of red ca- dets from all the Russian cities and other troops, totaling 60,000, Kronstadt fired its ten-inch guns, and when the attacking forces were near enough opened with a machine- Fa fire, causing severe losses. Newertheless, the survivors managed to' force an entrance through the Petersburgsk gate into the town. where the local communists joined «them. But after two hours of fight- ln‘s they were ejected and at 7 o'dlock nearly all the attacking fotces had been killed or wounded. More forces renewed the attack. Rebels Blow Up Ships. HELSINGFORS, March 17.—Before retreating from Kronstadt the revo- lutionists blew up the warships Pet- ropaviovsk and Sebastopol. @en. Koslovski, leader of the revo- Iutionists, has also arrived in Fin- attack BOVIET LEADERS FREED. Bojsheviks Confirm Capture of Kronstadt. LONDON, soviet governmen in confirming by BEFORE TROTSKY T | wireless today the capture of Kron- | stadt by bolshevik troops, says M. | Kusmin, soviet commissar of the Bll-{ | tic fleet. and M. Vasileff, chairman of kthe Kronstadt soviet, who were ar- | rested at the beginning of the rising. | were released by the bolsheviki on | their entry into Kronstadt. M. Musmin participated in the final liquidation of the rising, the wireless adds. WRANGEL PLEADS FOR AID. General Asks U. S. and Other Countries for Army's Relief. By the Associated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE. March 17.— Gen. Baron Wrangel, former anti- bolshevik leader on the Crimean front. is appealing to ‘the govern- { ment$ of the United States and other countries to furnish money, so that| his army. which he declares to be the only trained anti-bolshevik force remaining, need not be disbanded. The unwilling to continue ng funds, have proposed the atriation of his army, asserting ith the exception of the offi- was mistaken humanity which iprompted. the evacuation of Gen. Wrangel's men from the Crimea. | REDS LOSE TWO CITIES. Ukrainians French, Take Mohilev and Jampol on Dniester. By the Amociated Press. BERN, Switzerland, March 18.— The capture from the bolsheviki of Mohilev and Jampol, on the Dneister river. by Ukrainian nationalist forces was announced by the Ukrainian mis- I sion here today. The Ukraini shevik com mission dec ALLIES WARN GERMANS AGAINST USE OF TROOPS the bol- the shot all s and officers, Plebiscite Area in Upper Silesia Is| Declared Exclusively Under Interallied Control. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, March 18.—The council of ambassadors today handed a note to the German plebiscite delegation here concerning the concentration of Ger- man_ troops on the upper Silesian frontier. ‘The communication, which is couched in terms similar to the warning sent to Berlin Thursday by the French government, recalls that the main- tenance of order in upper Silesia is ex- clusively under control of the inter allied commissio Germany, it says, will be held re- sponsible” for any disorders arising from the entry of armed German forces into the plebiscite area. A similar note was sent by the coun- cil to the Polish plebiscite delegation. | By the Associated Press. BERLIN, March 18.—The interallied plebiscite commission has ordered a suspension of telegraphic and tele- phonic communication with upper Silesia from Saturday to Monday. A plebiscite will be held in upper Silesia Sunday to determine whether Poland or Germany shall have sover- eignty over the district. Press tele- grams are exempted from the com- mission’s order, but will be subject to the approval of the authorities in Silesia. The sale of wines and other spirits’ probably will be prohibited during the same period. e Constantinople has several woman suffrage clubs. <, PRICES Fifty Models—smartest fabrics—correctly tail- ored throughout, with those little touches that appeal to distinctive dressers JUST LOOK AT THE PRICES " THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FMDA?. MARCH 18, 1921 PRICES IN FRANCE DROP, BUT STILL AT HIGH LEVEL KERENSKY ATTACKS POLE PEACE PAGT Calls Riga Treaty One of Great Oppression and . Trials for Russia. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 18. protest aguinst the peace treaty about to ba consum- mated in Riga, Latvia, by representa- tives of the (wo countries was con- tained in dispatches received here by | the Russian information bureau from Alexander F. Kerensky, former prime provisional govern- | minister in the ment, now in_lLoudon. i Kerensky teinwcd the peace one of voppression and national subjection,” saying: Kerensky's Views. “Under the provisions of the Riga treaty Poland obtains, in addition to and beyond the Curzon line estab- lished by the peace conference, fifteen | counties of the provinces of Volhynia, jrodno, Vilna and Minsk. in thelr entirely and parts of eleven counties in the provinces of Volhynia, Minsk, Vilna and Vitebsk. The total area of land taken away from Russia I8 about 140,000 square kilomeiers —(approxi- ! aately 87,000 square miles) his | terfitory is inhabited by about 7,000.000 | ~eople, of whom mnot more than} 700060, or only 6 per cent, are Poles. | The that the Poles’ constitute: only a small minority in this terri-| tory was acknowledged by the Polish delegation in Riga. “The Poles are mainly the local land barons, the rest of the popula- tion belonging to the peasantry, and it will be easy to imagine the state of the future relations between the victors and the vanquished. Here, as in eastern Galicia, a forcible Poloni- zation by means of so-called ‘col- onization,” through a systematic ex- propriation of the land from Jocal’ inhabitants in favor of Polish settlers from Poland proper, will be |’ inaugurated. “Peace of Oppressi n.” “The Riga peace is not a peace of compromise, as Poland’s official rep- resentatives claim, but a' peate of oppression and national ‘subjection. ! ot only is it a source of great trials for Russia, not only is it capable of causing new calamities to Poland, but in this peace there is also con- cealed a most serious menace for the peace and tranquillity of all Europe, if the allies shouid assume the responsibility for it, together with the Poles. The Polish government is trying in every way to attain that Until now, however. all attempts of official Poland to shift the great powers from the Curzon line have failed. 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