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Show RUSS EXPECT ' NAVAUHACK Feverish Preparations Being Made to Repel Enemy at Gulf of Finland. WORK DAY AND NIGHT Men in Famous Island Fastness Fast-ness Determined to Defend Freedom of Russia. KRONSTADT, April 8, via London, April 10, 9:25 a. m. Kronstadt Is feverishly fe-verishly preparing to repel an expected expect-ed German naval attack when the Gulf of Finland is free of ice. A correspondent corre-spondent of the Associated Press reached the famous island fastness by traveling over the vast Ice wasto which separates it from the mainland and found the garrison working night and day In anticipation of the long-predicted long-predicted assault The fortress is entirely controlled by a council olected by tho troops, which is unanimously resolved to defend de-fend Russian freedom and territory to the last. Ono member of the council said that as long as Germany was unwilling un-willing to abandon its plans of annexation annex-ation there was nothing to do but fight. Will Fight to Finish. LONDON, April 10, 9:40 a. m. Russia Rus-sia has renounced all idea of territorial territor-ial expansion, according to a Pctro-grad Pctro-grad dispatch to Reuter's, quoting a statement of Minister of Justice Ke-rensky. Ke-rensky. Minister Kerensky, in the course of a speech delivered onMon-day onMon-day baforo tho military delegates, declared de-clared that while Russia wished no moro territory, she would defend to the end the liberty which she had won. Reuter's correspondent also reports that the new governor general of Finland, Fin-land, Fedor Roditcheff, denounced Russian peace advocates in an address ad-dress before tho congress of the Constitution Con-stitution Democrats, the party which he formerly led in the duma. General Roditcheff, after referring to tho sacrifices sac-rifices made at Gallipoli for Russia by France and England, said: Would Yield to Nothing. "In Pctrograd there Is a body of bold persons which dares to speak of peace In tho name of the people. But the people themselves are silent. Our duty toward the provisional government govern-ment is to raise our voices and say 'Russia is with you, yield to nothing, which concerns hor requirements and interests ' " |