File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎661v] (970/1080)

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The English are inclined to form an Eastern Galacian buffer state, where
their companies would be protected from continual competition.
2. The Sub-Commission of the French Chamber of Deputies has decided
to demand the publishing of notes exchanged between the Polish and French
Ministers for Foreign Affairs. The Sub-Commission demanded the publication $
of details of military and political agreements concluded between Poland and
France, which, it is stated, recognise the eastern frontier of Poland as estab
lished by the Eiga treaty, and that Eoumania is to defend this frontier.
3. There is a split amongst the right social revolutionaries. The Central
Committee protests against members of the party, headed by Tchernov, taking
part in the Paris Conference. The Eussian S. E.'s know that there is
no cadet party in Eussia and they want to act independently. They are still
supporters of the Constituent Assembly, but, under the “ Constituent cloak ”
there are already noticeable many GeneraPs epaulets, Banker’s frock-coats and
the whip of the estate owner. The working classes are not much interested
as to how the S. E. brothers are dressed in 1921, but it is doubtful whether
Tcbernoff will listen to his own Central Committee, and whether Kerensky will
agree to be subordinate to anybody but himself.
4. Notwithstanding the serious position of supplies, scarcity of clothes
and the illness scurvy, the workingmen of the Krasnovodsk workshops have
done their duty to the Eepublic. In the second half year of 1920 they
repaired 612 engines, 1,375 various rolling-stock, 1,880 cisterns. In January
1921 they repaired 17 engines, 52 various rolling-stock and 655 cisterns.
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Extract from the “Nabat,” Askhabad, dated 8th March
1921.
A WUteguard insurrection in Kronstadt.
Tetrograd, 1st March. A revolution led by the social revolutionaries and
General Kozlevski has broken out in Kronstadt. A portion of the fleet has
been seized. The mutineers are in possession of the battleship Petropavlovsk.
ihe insurrection is due to the present economic and fuel crisis.
Spies of the Entente and of our own Whiteguards have profited by the
grave economic situation of our workers and under a mask of political neutrality
have involved the sailors of the fleet in a revolution.
This is what is guiding the insurrection.
The leaders of the revolution appear to be Petrichenko, Yakovlenko,
Captain Burtsev and Engineer Mechanics Oreshin and Putilin General
Kozlevski, although not officially concerned in the affair, appears‘to be the
leading spirit in the movement. His two brothers, who are in the Naval
Academy m Petrograd, have been arrested.
The Kronstadt Administration.
. , °® c i al President of the revolutionary organisation appears to be Pet*
nchenko a clerk in the brigade staff. Another°seems to be^reshin an Engi*
neer Mechanic. The secretary is a sailor called Tnrchin and his’ assistant
another sailor named Perepepkin. The brother of the latter is well known for
noroffijfallv Aeh ry ? d W ° U,d Seem to be the **1 secretary though
a urW bM nowt In P f C ' P w tS appear t0 be perswis 1'ke Putilin, some time
a pi lest, out now a social revolutionary.
scouN ofThl^emh^^ 7 *- -W mi' laTe eaptured t,,ree telephonists who were
scoUuS ot the revolutionaries. They confess that cohesion amon-the latter is
destroyed. Many intend to flee to Pinland. Supplies are at an end
TW^r^on 5 ’ 0 ? p00ds of , bi . scuits wbicJl will not last more than 3 or 4 days.
Pp-na.ds of 200 refugees are being maintained in Kronstadt. In an edition of