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Show REVOLUTION SPREADS IN PETROGRAD AND MOSCOW 300,000 III BATTLE Ofl sop Strikers Join With Revolting Re-volting Troops and Sanguinary Fighting Reported in Progress LONDON,"" WarT"?. Reperts "r-eived "r-eived in effieial British singles todsy confirm dispatches telling of an anti-soviet anti-soviet rising in Russia. They state that the situstien in Russia is serious. se-rious. The latest official news received, re-ceived, however, did not indicste that the soviet government had lost control. con-trol. LONDON, March 2. Reports from Russia received thlsj morning in Helsinpfors, Finland, I by way of Reval, Ksthonia, dis-j close a situation "which may; result shortly In the complete over- j throw of soviet rule." says the Central News' lielslngfors correspondent. I Fighting Is proceeding in msny parts I of Russia, with Petrograd and Moscow I as the centers of the revolutionary movement, the reports add. The fighting In Petrograd Is of gigantic proportions, according to the reports, for 100.000 strikers are declared de-clared to lie arrayed against the soviet i troops, whose exact number It is Impossible Im-possible to estimate. MANY KILLED. "It Is reliably reported." the dispatch dis-patch says, "that very many have ueen amen or wounaeo. on both sides in street fighting and that there has been considerable property damage. The naval garriaon at Kronstadt has Joined the relieis. "Reports of the revolution In Moscow Mos-cow are meager, douhtleas owing to the censorship. One message Indl-cstes Indl-cstes that large numbera of former officers of the Kussian army are leading lead-ing the Insurgents there. FIGHTING IN STREETS. "In Petrograd the military cadets, who have been among the most re-1 liable supporters of soviet rule, suffered suf-fered heavy casualties. Combined ' forces of laborers and marlnea. of I whom 100 were former service men, attacked the cadets, drove them through the streets to the schools snd quickly overwhelmed the cadets. The surviving cadet only obtained shelter when soviet reinforcements were rushed ud. "Sanguinary flphtlng continues In I the streets and also in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of I'etrograd. The garrison, while not participating actively In the fighting, ha handed over all Its arm and munition to the rebels. The rebel reb-el are holding VaKslly-Ostrov lit suburb sub-urb of I'etrogrnd) and important residential resi-dential quarters of the city. LEADING REBELS. "In southeast Russia General Dutoff fantltfolshevik leader of the Orenburg Cossacks, with strong force of Cossacks, Cos-sacks, I operating suece.-sfully tn the Orenburg plains, while Oeneral An-teoff, An-teoff, who i leading the Insurgents in the central, southern and Volga dis-t dis-t rlct , ha made a cons lderabl a d -rane which thratn to cut off communications com-munications with Caucasia. "I tad railway communlNitlons are handicapping both side. The fieorgitin government ha ordered moblltzat ion of all able bodied- Mohammedans, who are instructed to support the Chris- ttans defending the country. |