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Show MB I f Mi REBELS DEMANDING REDS' SURRENDER CAPITULATION OF PETROQRAD INSISTED ON IN ULTIMATUM TO SOVIET AUTHORITIES. Demand Surrender of City Before Maroh 25, Bolshevlkl Being Informed In-formed Bombardment Will Follow Fol-low Refusal to Vacate. London. Revolutionary authorities nt the fortress of Kronstndt havo sent an ultlmutum to tlio soviet authorities In Petrogrnd, demanding tho surrender surren-der of tlio city beforo March 20. If the city Is not given up, the ultimatum declares, there will be n general bom-bnrdment, bom-bnrdment, It Is asserted In nn Abo, Finland, dispatch to the London Times. Wholcsalo arrests and executions of workmen are said to ihavo occurred at Orunlonbnum, Systerbnk and Pctro-grad. Pctro-grad. ICronstadt sent out a wireless denying deny-ing bolshevik statements that tho fortress fort-ress was without food, says a telegram from Stockholm. To the contrary, there Is plenty of food and ammunition there, tlio message stated. Artillery fire from Kronstndt hns been extremely well directed, tho wireless wire-less dispatch Is quoted ns saying. "The fortress of Toolcbcn and nil other soviet batteries on the Knrclcln peninsula penin-sula hnvo been completely demolished. Two of tho four 12-Inch guns nt Krntt-noyo Krntt-noyo Gorkn hnvo been silenced by shells from tho battleship Pctropnv-lovsk. Pctropnv-lovsk. Krasnoyo Gorga lias been Isolated, Iso-lated, the railroad to It has been destroyed de-stroyed nnd a thaw has placed tho surrounding marshes In such condition condi-tion that the fortress dins been cut off from the rest of tho bolshevik forces." A great nntl-bolshevlk movement In tho vicinity of Minsk, Whlto Russia, Is reported In n Router's dispatch from Ilclslngfors. Soviet troops nre ald to hnvo mutinied nnd murdered bolshevik bol-shevik commissars there. |