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Show REDS PEACE I IK III III Heavy Losses Suffered by Soviet Troops in Vigorous . Offensive Against Pet rograd LONDON, March 1 1, Revolutionary ' autherttiea at tha Farteaa Kronatadt hava aent an ultimatum to tha soviet authertttae In Peroarad demanding the aurrander af tha city before March 26. If the city ta not givan up, tha ultimatum ulti-matum declares, there will be a ganaral gan-aral bombardment, it ia asserted in sn Abo, Finlsnd. dispatch ta tha Londan Times. Wholeaale arreeta and executions execu-tions af workman are ssid ta hava aa-curred aa-curred at Oranienbaum, Systsrbsk and Petregrad. LONDON, March 11 The bol-'aheviki bol-'aheviki " received reinforcements reinforce-ments and commenced . on Wednesday a vigorous offensive on the Pctroprad front, but suffered suf-fered heavy losses, says a dispatch to the London Times from Riga today. War Minister Trotzky ordered the entire bolahevlat southwest army to the aid of the commander In the sector, but the Moscow commissary replied that he could not trust his troops and demanded special Instructions. General Avroff the dictator In Pet-rograd. Pet-rograd. is reported to have ordered the electric light and water power stations blown up. There sre 40.000 sailors and soldiers at Kronstailt. They have a plentiful supply of ammunition and ! mines and their morale Is excellent. 1 More than 24.000 laborers are striking. I It is reported from Khllsselhtirg. near I Petrograd. that the sailors of the fleets on I-akea Ladoga and Onega have revolted. re-volted. FOOD SCARCE. Trustworthy news from the Interior of Russia shows that antisoviet revol's i are spreading throughout the country. I The food alt nation la becoming catastrophic, catas-trophic, no food trains having reached I the country from Siberia since Feb-jruary Feb-jruary 11. The situation Is made more : serious through the congestion of the transport system. On the main rail-l rail-l way from I"erm to Vologda J00 train i are being held up. It Is announced, the dispatch continues, con-tinues, that 40,000 communist troops 'are approaching Petrograd. but that their loyalty l doubted. lleavv fighting continues in Petro-grsd. Petro-grsd. The Nikolavisk railway ststlon has been bombed by airplanes from Kronatadt. A Holslngfors messare reports the antisoviet peasant leader, Antonloff. has hadlv defeated the red troops in i the Kursk region. ! Kronstudt last night sent out a wire- ! lens denying bolshevik statements that the fortress was wihout 'food, rays a telegram from Stockholm. To the contrary, con-trary, there is plenty of food and ammunition am-munition there, the message stated. DEADLY FIRE. Artillery fire from Kronetadt hss been extremely well directed, the wireless wire-less dispatch is quoted ss ssyins,. "The fortress of. Toole ben end sll other soviet batteries on the Karelien peninsula have been completely demolished," de-molished," the dispatch adds. "Two of the four U-lnch guns st Kraenoye Gorka have been silenced by shells from the battleship Petropavlosk. Kms-noye Kms-noye (iorka has been Isolsted. the railroad rail-road to It has been destroyed and a thaw has plsoed the surrounding marshes in such condition that the (Continued on ps k ll REDS PLACE (Continued from pa.e 1.) fortreaa haa been cut off from tha reat of tha bolshevik forcea' A irreat antibolahavik movement In the vicinity of Mlnak. Wnlta Kuaela. j la reported In a Reutera' dlapatch from I Helalngfora. Hoviet troopa ara aald to have mutinied and murdered bolehevlk commlaaarg there. Another dlapatch mentions atreet flrhtlnr between tha bolshevlkl and antlaoviet unite In Kiev. RAILWAY DESTROYED. STOCKHOLM. March 11 fBy the A-aoclated A-aoclated Treaa.- A dispatch from Teriokl. Finland. aent at S o'clock Thuraday niKht aay: "The fortreaa at Krona'.adt Wednea-Iday Wednea-Iday aher.ed and completely deatroyed the railway to Petrourad. ! Tha fortreaa alao heavily ihelled the ahore near Kyatrbak. where Trotiky haa concentrated conaiderable forcea. "The cnmmunlat congreaa opened In l Moacow March I In depreaaed gplrita. 'There) la open demand that the eoviet i government chance Its economic and j f ralrn oollclea." I FINNS ODIOUS. Riga. Latvia. March 11. Tha Rua-lan Rua-lan mlaalon here publihea a alate-ment alate-ment by tha eoviet foreign mlnlater. I M.Chltcherln. alleging thut everything I la normal In the province of Pskov land adjoining dialrict. i A Waranw report of Wedneadnv aald ! the white Kulheniana. In the aouth-weatern aouth-weatern provlncea centering nround I Mlnak. had proclaimed their Indrpen-'denra Indrpen-'denra of Ruaaia.- ' f'hitrherin'a atalement speuka of the ndioua part" played by ttie Finnish government In aaxlillng the mutinies land by the British foreign office in claiming to poaseaa official newa of re. ivolta at Patrograd and Moscow which Ichltcherln characterlaeg ai "a He from 'beginning to end." EXCITEMENT INTENSE. HARBIN. Manchuria. Mnrch 11 E-cilement E-cilement here la Intense. The telegraph aervice to the weat la Interrupted. The last dispatch received here from j Verkne-l'dlnak. on the Trana-Hlberlan 'railway east of Lake Ruikal. was dated I March t. It waa aald the Chelyablnak railways were In tha handa of the Insurgent. In-surgent. The places held by tha In-aurxema In-aurxema Included Cheremknovo, the coal center. |