Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-05
saw RUSSIA RUN RED
MORE THAN TEN DAYS
Revolution Not Bloodless by Far,
Says DR.. Downer, Who Wit
messed Upheaval
MANY OFFICERS SLAIN
Hundreds Hanged in Streets-Physician
Himself Had Narrow Escape
From Mobs
By M'LISS

They have called It bloodless revolu-
tion' speaking OF Russia. and marvellous
tales have been written of how that country
reused Itself from the spell Of Czarism and
In three days became a wide-awake repub-
lie, but man Is i'm Philadelphia who
watched Russia run red for more than ten
days During that period he saw more
onlcers Killed by the revolutonists than the
Germans did for" in one whole year on the
battle front; he watched Russia turn itself
inside out and his vantage point was the
palace itself.
Or. Earl Bishop Downer, OF Lansing.
Mich, Is the man. After service in the
american Red Cross Hospital in Serbia,
DOCTOR Downer was sent TO Russia, as an
integral part Of the philanthropy Of Edwin
Gould' because Of his skill in plastic sur
gerry How he happened to get royal
suite IN the palace at Tsarskoye- -Seio and
now ne narrowly escaped hanging from q
shop sign in the streets Of Petrograd are
lwo OF the breath-taking experiences that he
reiated TO me today and which he will tell
at Witherspoon Hall tonight
=, me women really pulled of tho revolu-
uoh IN Russia" the young surgeon started
OH and their fight at the beginning was
10 ureau rather than for freedom Back OF
~ an was the work of Germany, Of course
When the officials-alI of them in the nav
Oh the haiser-began cutting down on the
preau and fuel the women began 70 rather
arms This they did by flirting with tho
arsenal guards. II was an open secret that
there was plenty of arms and ammuni-
.loh @ IN Petrogrld, because the military lead
. u.s were not sending any to the front-that
was German work, again.
1t was no blood tess revoIution ,rbo
streets ran red for ten days or more
Everybody who was suspected OF being a
Herman was strung up or decapitated right
OUT IN the open. There were no court
nartlals' The women led off, demanding
Dread the imperial guards fred on them.
Inc Cossacks demonstrated how widesprea.
| the spirit of the revolution really was. They
| dtd the unexpected. Ordered TO ride into
the crowds and fay them with bullwhips
! they rode. but they didn't fay. They mere
! ~ cracked their whips over the heads of
| the rlotlng mobs. Gradually one regiment
! aller another came over to the people
! numbering their officers as they did so
| FINALLY almost the entire sodiery was g
| part of the revolution In ten, days 6OOO
| oHcers were strung up or slaughtered
/ Add to this thousands of Germans and
suspects, and then call it bloodless revo
| luton II you cam You could walk along
the streets of Petrograd and bump into the
swaying bodies of dead men that were
hanging from telegraph poles. shop sign,
and lampposts. / was mighty near beini
one of them myself"
And then the very thin. very pale younI
surgeon who came through the revolution
alive and is here to tell the tale despite
the fact that he looks like a vertable ghos
| of his former self, went back and told mt
how he happened to be an eye witness e
this most stirring episode in modern his
tory.
when I got to Russia" he said. 81 wen
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