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Show am SLAUGHTER AT KRDNSTADT 0III1S ID VOMEII AID III FIGHT Terrible Sacrifices MaJe of Forces Led by War Minister Min-ister Leon Trotzky 1)NW)N, starch It (Associated Preaa.) Ieon Trotsky, th bolahevlk war mlnlater. leading th attack Thursday which resulted In tha fall of Kmnetadt. had no thought for Ihe terrible eacrtfirra which tha aaaault entailed, according to advices received hers by way of Stockholm. Ha attacked at-tacked wt'h overwhelming force a. Including In-cluding Chinese and women, regardless regard-less of the heavy loss of life which hia followers wer suffering. Kronatadt wss engaged from two direct ions, the main attack coming from eranlenhaum. (twtng to the hort diatanrs between tha two point, the big guna nf the defense could not ba uaed. but lha machine guna nf the furtreea mowed down Ihe bolahevlkl until piles nf dead covered the Ice. Preen columns Inceaaantly appeared out of the dene fog anj the boHhe-vikl boHhe-vikl eventually penetrated the gates of the fortress. TWICE REPULSED. The bolahevlkl forces wer twice re. pulsed, but continued their ssaault re-lentleaaly. re-lentleaaly. following their entrance fr the third time there waa furious street fighting for several hours, when Ihe followers nf Trotsky became maa-ters maa-ters of the altuatlon. The revolutionary garrison withdrew to Terlokl, on th Kusaian-KlnUnd frontier. The man whn Is described ss th reel leader of ths revolution. M. Pe-trlrhenko, Pe-trlrhenko, la now at Terlokl, enjoying popular confidence. SEEKS PROTECTION. f.enerul Kosloveky, another nf the revolutionary lender, haa applied to the Finnish comm.inder for protection for the refugeea. He deacrlhed todny how Kronatadt fired the first ahot In the evening of Marrh T, amid great enthual.iem. It had been hoped lo hold nut until April 1, but rlrrum-ulaurra rlrrum-ulaurra were overwhelmingly against the revolutionaries He added that tha rarrlaon. contrary con-trary to prevloua repnrta, wna made up of only ""0 men. whereaa the sovleta wer able to draw fresh reinforcements, rein-forcements, and the holders of Kron-,sisrit Kron-,sisrit begsn lo wear nut. under the enormous strain. On Thuradsy Ihelr phyaicsl resistance wss at an end. The general declarea hat In spite of defrnt. the Krnnstadt eplode "haa knocked a hole In ths soviet system." Fugitives Arrive On Finnish Frontier Hrjl-ttlNOrtiKH. Finland. March 1 (Associated Pres). Throughout the night fugitives from Kronmsdt hsv been arriving on the Kinnlsh frontier snd the roads leading to Terlikl are crowded with refugees, some nf thrm itfiMit.. walking In close ranka. and others on sledges retrying their pro. visions. Finnish frontier guards arc bringing In Ihe wounded and helpleaa. The American Ited Croea la taking charge of supplies and hss promised to help th refugees. , Advocates Proprietorship By Russ Peasants PARIS. March 1 Premier Lenin, addressing Ihe communist congress In Moscow, virtually sbandoned cum-munlsm cum-munlsm and advocated peaaant proprietorship pro-prietorship In It a stesd. according to a dispatch to the Herald from Keval tori iy. The bolshevik leader also urged granting of liberal concessions to foreign for-eign capltsllsls. Th congress Indorsed hia stand. . . The agency of tha Russian union (Continued on pegs l. ORIENTALS AND (Continued from page I.) haa received dlspatchea from llelalng-for llelalng-for declaring that the upriaing against the bolshevik government haa spread throughout Russia. While the out- break was aald to have been "prema-i "prema-i lure." It wa atated that great number num-ber nf peaaanta In tha Volga region and lha I'krslns had Joined the Insurrection, Insur-rection, burning ovit office and Imprisoning Im-prisoning red official. Ilnlshevlk garrisons wsr reported to hav mutinied muti-nied and handed over their arm. General Kameneff Is Under Arrest l.oNIxiN. March It. M DJerJInaky. head nf th all-Ruaalan eitraerdinary 'eommlaeion, haa peraonally arrreted Oeneral Herglua Kameneff. commander In chief of the bolshevik armies, and Colonel Lenedieff. th chief of staff, st Moscow, sccording to a Ixmdon Time dispatch from Riga. No rra-sona rra-sona for tha arrests ar glvrn General Wrangel Appeals for Money Ct INHTA VTI VOI'LK. Mrch lKAs. soclated lrs Oeneral Wrangel fnrraer antlbolhvlk leader on the Crimean front. I appealing lo the governments nf th I'nited Mtaleand other countries lo furntah money so that hi army, whlrh ha declare to b lh only trained ant:bolshs Ik force remaining, need not b disbanded. dis-banded. The lYench. unwilling In rnntinur advancing fund, have pmpoasd th I repatriation of hi army. |