"We have reliable information that
the garrisons of i'skov and, Smolensk
have revolted; that in Tula, SorpukholT
and Kolomna1 (respectively 100 miles
south, 57 miles south and 63 miles south
en -t of Moscow) ttie workers have ex
pelled the Commissaries and proclaimed
i a general strike, and that the peasants
of the I'kratne, Western Siberia and the
' Ural are in open revolt.
"Moscow where the most reliable
Soviet troops are concentrated, now is
quiet, hut only by military force can
the authorities prevent the .Moscow
workers from Joining the revolution
aries."
Reports from Reval to-day elate that
the flood of Russian refugees over the
frontier has suddenly ceased, and it is
presumed the Soviet authorities are pre
venting any one from leaving Petrograd.
The Central News Jlelslngfnrs corre
spondent says that, according ro a
refugee who has just escaped from Pet
rograd, the town of Tver, ninety miles
northwest of Moscow, has fallen Into the
hands of the revolutionaries, through th?>
Soviet troops having been withdrawn to
Petrograd.
"Artillery lire from KronstHdt has
been extremely well directed," a wire
less despatch from Kronstudt Is quoted
as saying. "The fortress of Todleben
and ill other .Soviet batteries on the
Karelian Peninsula have been completely
i demolished. Two of the four 12-Inch
, gun s at Krasnoye Gorka have been
! silenced by shells from the battleship
| Petropavlovsk. Krasnoye Gorka lias
| been isolated, the railroad to it has been
I destroyed and a thaw has placed the
) surrounding marshes In such condition
that the fortress has been cut off from
! the rest of the Bolshevist forces.
