Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-11-15
PEOPLE OF RUSSIA
ARE DIVIDED AGAIN

ARE DIVIDED AGAIN
LONDON.-Premier Kerensky ar
lived at Luga, IS miles southwest OF
2etrograd, and the garrison there
attested its loyalty to his provisional
government, according to a Petro-
grad dispatch of Saturday to the
Weekly Dispatch. Saturday morn
ing he reached Gatchina, 80 miles
southwest of Petrograd, where the
same thing happened.
The newspaper report added that
troops loyal to the provisional gov
,rnment are known to be near Petro-
grad and division of Cossacks is
on the march from Finland. This
news was given out at the smolny
institute headquarters of the work
mems and soldiers congress-.
The garrison at Petrograd, which
4 few days ago was solid for the ex-
.remists, now is said again to be wa
lering in its allegiance.
Moscow Garrison Loyal
The Weekly Dispatch's advices say
hat at the town hall it was rumored
Friday night that most of the Mos
,ow garrison had retyansferred
allegiance to the provisional govern
nent after fighting the extremists
supporters at the Kremlin, where
hey had taken refuge.
M. Skobeloff, minister of labor of
Kerensky's ministry, in addressing a
meeting Friday night at the town
hall, said that the railway workers
union, which at first had worked
under the instructions of Nikolai
Lemine, now declares itself wholly
On the side of the committe Of pub
lie safety and that it would not obey
further orders of the Bolsheviki.
This is the heaviest blow that the
extremists have yet received. In 16
ministries the Union of government
servants has instructed its members
to strike, thus paralyzing the whole
governmental machinery.
Bolshevikis Begin Business. :.
Petrograd.-The all-Russian con-
gress of workmen's and soldiers del
egates is reported unofficially to
have named a cabinet composed or
Bolsheviki and then adjourned. The
cabinet is headed by Nikolai Lenine
as premier and Leon Trotzky, for
eign minister. The cabinet will
serve until the constituent assembly
approves it or selects a new one.
Revolution Collapsing.
London.-The Bolsheviki revolu-
ton in Petrograd was reported Sum
day to be approaching collapse. Reg
iments loyal to Premier Kerensky
are marching on the capital, and
fighting is under way in the city.
according to reports from Petrograd.
An organization, which has adopted
the name of All-Russian committee
for saving the country and the revo-
/ luton, announced that the defeat Of
the Bolsheviki movement was mat
ter of only days or hours.
Rebels Retire in Disorder
The town of Tsarskoe-Selo, Is
miles south Petrograd, where former
Emperor Nicholas lived much of the
time, is said to have been captured
{ by loyal forces, after which the reb-
els retired to Petrograd in disorderly
| mobs.
The chief wireless station now in
control of loyal troops.
PREPARE FOR NEXT
DRAFT SELECTION
| Observation-Disclosures Will
! son formally put the new machinery
| for carrying out the selective draft
bill into operation Monday with the
publication of the foreward he has
written to the regulations under
which the second call will be made.
The regulations themselves and
the questionaries. which more than
100000 registrants will be required
to fill out, are being forwarded TO
local boards, but have not yet been
made public.
War department officials estimate
that the whole process can be con-
pleted within 60 days. This means
that no second call will be made up
on the draft forces before the middle
of next February, as the period Of
classification will not begin until
December Is.
| The president describes the new
plan if listing all registered men not
already mobilized into five classes
subject to military service by class
! es as being intended to produce "a
imore perfect organization of our
ipower."
J. L. Johnson has been busy this
week repairing the Presbyterian
church and adding portico.