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Show mm u ' m . m m a THOUSANDS-JOIN-REVOLT--AGAINST BOLSHEVIK RULE PETROGRAD TAKEN BY REBELS 60,000 Peasants Said to Be Marching onj Moscow as Uprising' Spreads Over Country By UNIVERSAL SERVICE" Special Cable Dispatch. . , LONDON, March 5. A rery terioui antiboUherik revolution revolu-tion ia in . progress, in Russia, judging - from varied reports which continued to accumulate tonight. All of Petrograd. says a lata dis-! dis-! patch, has been captured by antl-bo'sheviki antl-bo'sheviki Insurgents. This informs, tlon comes from Helslngfors. and it Is added that the counter revolution In southern Russia Is spreading rapidly. The "whites" are reported to , bo miking appreciable progress at Odessa . : LEADS 60,000 MEN. General Antonoss , Is said to bo moving upon Moscow, bolshevik capital, cap-ital, at the head of 90,000 peasants. The Copenhagen correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph says leonine has issued a proclamation declaring a atato of alege in Petrograd and outlawing out-lawing Koshovaky, leader of tho atriker-lneurgents. and hla confederates. confeder-ates. Pome of tho loval soviet leaders at Petrograd are reported to have been arrested. SPREADS TO FORTRESS. Additional word la to the effect , that tha counter revolutionary move-i move-i ment at Petroarrad haa apread to tha ' Kronetadt fortreaa, which defend tha old Rueeian capital from tha aaa aide. Kuaaian warehtpe, which had son over to tha Ineurrenta, aaalated In 1 taking part of Petroarad. Tha Fetroflrrad inaurcenta hava ia-aued ia-aued an ultimatum to tha Moecow government demanding' the reieaee of, all political prlaonera. Manx former for-mer bolahevlit adherent hava joined tha revolutionary army In aouUiara Kuxala. FIERCE FIQHT1NO. A dtepatch from Riga aa tha new revolution la on llnea parallel to tha ona which reeulted in tha overthrow of tha cxar, but the fighting la de-acribed de-acribed aa much fiercer. Rebel workmen. Bailor a and eo Idler are Involved, In-volved, aeaiatlng by battleship. Including In-cluding tha crulaer Petro Pavloak. Tha Inaurgenta captured all tha riant bank of the Nevsky at Petrograd and also have taken Wailevaky, Ostrov, Beltysky. Warshavsklt , and other main rail stations. Several times the rebels were nearly near-ly defeated, but were aaved when entire en-tire regiments went over to th white. Th soviet force are described de-scribed as "losing their heads" and proclaiming a state of siege. They called reserves from Pskov, LrUga. Yam burg and other towns and early today were reported concentrating their main force at Wlbosiskaya and aJtoroa. WILL ORGANIZE. Dispatches to th Dally Expres describe the revolt aa completely organised or-ganised with crlee of "down with th red reaction" being heard everywhere. every-where. Hallway men took the lead In the uprising. - Moscow was described , aa feverishly fever-ishly organising against a new attack on the- Kremlin, seat of government, which waa guarded by the communist International legion. The movement waa precipitated when the workmen, soldiers and sal iocs went on strike demanding political, po-litical, freedom, th freedom of ln- (Continued on Page 2.) PETROGRAD TAKEN (Continued from pace 1.) dividual trade and Industry and the convoking of the constituent assembly, assem-bly, the fitftttlng start In wbea Lenin attempted to suppress the raaN contents with naval and military cadets. ca-dets. A call haa been Issued to tho "whites" throughout Russia, to Join In the fig ht for theln civil righto. I |