12 MARCH 1921, Page 1
It is now certain that an insurrection against the Bolshevik
terrorists broke out in Kronstadt and Petrograd on February 23rd. The Bolsheviks, after denying that troubles had arisen, admitted last week that the Baltic fleet had mutinied and that General Koslovsky, a Bolshevik commander, was leading the revolted troops. The reports from Helsingfors, Rigs, Revel, and Moscow are confused and partly fabulous, but it is clear that there has been a good deal of street fighting in Petrograd between the starving workmen and Trotsky's Chinese mercenaries. On Monday and Tuesday the Kronstadt forts and the battleships were bombarding Petrograd. It was rumoured that the garrisons of the forts opposite Kronstadt had joined the insurgents, but this news from Riga is unconfirmed.
