The Prescott daily news., 1917-12-08
TELLS OF BOLSHEv|KI
 UPRISING LAST JULY
William C. Shepherd Depicts the Bolsheviki Uprising in Petro- grad Last July-Kerensl1y is Man of Courage.

herensky's strength has always rested in his courage and his utter disregard for his life. From the very first days of the revolution his life has hung by cord.
 "The newspapers say your papa is sick, but l don't believe it." said little chap on the playground of public school in Petrograd to Kerens- ky's ten-year-old son.
 "IIe is too sick" said little Kerens- ky, Jr., "but l heard him tell mamma that he must keep alive to help save Russia"
 With one kidney removed by an operation which, the doctors told him was hundred to one chance against success, Kerensky has looked death in the face, and that vision seems to have given him a disregard for his life that stood him in good stead in the days when he was at the head of the Russian government.
 Kerensky's only fault is that he has been willing to die but he has not been willing to kill.
 The July uprising of the Bolsheviki, when some 800 men, women and chil- dren were killed in the streets of Petrograd during a reign of terror that lasted three days, was a fine in- stance of Kerensky's bravery.
 The First Machine gun regiment for weeks, had been Bolsheviki. It had demanded that all the power of the government be turned over to the council of Workmen and Soldiers Time after time the delegates of the Machine gun regiment-which had some 300 machine guns and twenty armored cars, came to Kerensky and threatened to go into the streets and make an armed show of power if he would not agree to surrendering the government to the workmen and sol- diers. The working men from the SlSaN loOtOIlSS' all ol NHOiu ldu dfHlS in their homes, as Kerensky well knew, made similar threats. Kerens- ky, knowing that much of the army was behind these men, refused
 On July IS, the machine gun men and the working men went to the dancers palace, where Lenine and Trotsky held forth and demanded the right to go into the streets and de monstrate. All that day Lenine, who was sick in bed, and Trotsky, pleaded with the soldiers and workingmen not to go into the streets. During the day delegations passed back and forth between the various barracks and the dancers palace. Lenine and Trotsky were afraid. l have had first hand stories of the terrors that existed in that palace that bloody day.
 They sent word to Kerensky asking him to temporize with the soldiers. Kerensky stood pat Unwilling to kill, an adversary of the death sen tence. he was brave enough to risk death himself and even brave enough to permit killings in the streets of Petrograd
 At II o'clock that night Lenine and Trotsky lost control of the machine gun men. Alright" they said to them, ''march through the streets and run around with your armored cars if you wish to, but don't shoot and return to your barracks at midnight"
 Within fftten minutes the sounds of rifle shooting were filing the city and men, women and children were dying in the streets. Kerensky, dash ing down to the Nicholai station in an automobile, got onto a special train and was beyond the outskirts of the city when a band of men came to the depot, seeking to arrest him. For three days the terror reigned and then subsided.
 Kerensky came back as a hero and ordered the arrest of Lenine and Trot- sky. The former "escaped;" that is no one even tried to find him. Trot- sky was found and jailed but Kerens- ky pardoned him. And thus laid the trap in which he was later caught and ruined.