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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1921
Page
3
The Kronstadt uprising against the Bolshevik regime grew from strict discipline clashes and food shortages. Trotsky redirected troops, used staged bravado, and intensified pressure after cutting rations, while sailors sought freedom rather than overthrowing Moscow.
William B Leeds Jr son of Princess Anastasia of Greece arrived in Athens from France by air to join his mother who recently had major surgery. He flew via Cherbourg Lyons Rome Brindisi and Patras with a Chinese servant. He reportedly suffered pain from an arm operation due to an infection from an insect bite in Sumatra and declined to continue by train.
In London a mining engineer uncovered 36 silver coins from various dates, two Tudor era rings, monk's chain fragments, medieval tiles, a Samian ware plate, and a small gold enamel ornament likely from a collar. Authorities deem the Grecian ware fragment among the finest from 400 to 500 B.C. Only a portion of the site has been excavated.
Japan plans to dispatch a battleship and four destroyers to Kamchatka to safeguard fishing interests amid reports the Far Eastern republic ceded part of Kamchatka to the Soviet government. Viscount Uchida declared Japan would take any necessary action to defend Kamchatka rights.
Vienna notes report Frau Schratt the famed court actress who influenced former Emperor Francis Joseph has sold her Schonbrunn villa and retired to Ischl after decades with the kaiserin Villegl. She hosted generals artists ministers and composers in the imperial circle and was known as the uncrowned empress.
Paris dispatch reports Mrs Anne Morgan and Mrs Anne Dike spearheading an American assisted athletic station in Soissons. The project aims to boost fitness for French youth under conscription by offering baseball football and basketball facilities plus clubrooms and separate playgrounds for boys and girls. A 10 kilometer race open to Soissons natives will award a silver cup. The cornerstone will be laid April 10 at the St Cripin site near the city center.
Paris March 26 Associated Press reports the League of Nations financial committee will again study relief for Austria through the Brussels plan of international credits. A Rome experts meeting will follow before discussions with Austrian representatives at Santa Rosa near Trieste to refine and seek approval in Paris and Rome.
In Stockholm on March 26 the Socialists of the left debated joining Mosca as the coalition faction split over lines of majority votes. The congress reflected tense divisions among socialist leaders and strategists.
The text reports an overwhelming majority adopting a resolution to join the third international in Moscow unconditionally, triggering the resignation of the minority who formed an independent party led by Carl Lindhagen, Stockholm's socialist mayor, and M Vennersten former finance minister. The radical representation in parliament now rests with Deputy Frederick Stroem.
London report Prince of Wales offers five pounds reward for return of two old briar pipes lost during hunting in Leicestershire. He carried them on colonial tours and one was used during a train accident in Australia. Two parties now search the Briars course for the pipes.
In central criminal court Sidney Marks facing fifteen months for housebreaking asked to be whipped. Arthur Haigh serving six months also requested twelve strokes of the cat claiming the prison did him no good.
The Department of Agriculture advised France is near normal bread rations as wheat use returns to prewar levels. Total wheat supply for the year reaches about 349 million bushels with imports around 80 million. France’s 1981 wheat acreage is 12.1 million acres, up 700 thousand from last year but 3.2 million below prewar averages.
Leland Harrison counselor of the American embassy in Paris sailed for New York on the Mauretania. Frederick A Sterling associate counselor succeeds Harrison temporarily as he is recalled to Washington for work in the Department of State.
Messages from Mannheim credit firm promising large funds to French industries in Alsace Lorraine and Saar border areas in exchange for mortgages on homes and high interest. French firms rebuff, preferring to block German access. Also note launch of schooner Bluenose in Lunenburg NS with plans to race Halifax Mayflower.
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