Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-11-14
ANOTHER RUSS. REVOLUTION.
Kerensky Overtl,rOwn - Separate
Peace Declared Probable.

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sky has been deposed and the Maxi
malists have obtained control of Pet
rograd and have issued prpclama-
tion saying the new government will
propose immediate peace, the semi
official Russian news agency an
nounces.
The Maximali IS were assisted by
the Petrograd garrison, which made
possible coup d'etat without blood
shed.
Leon Trotzky, president Of the
central executive committee of the
Petrograd Council OF Soldiers and
Workmen's delegates, issued dec
laration to the effect that the provis-
lonal government was no longer in
existence and that some Of it's men,
bers had been arrested The prelim-
mary Paliament has been dissolved.
Report from Petrograi.
Petrograd, Nov. 8.-Goyernment
forces holding the winter palace were
compelled to capitulate early this
morning under the fire of the cruiser
Aurora and the cannon Of the st.
Peter and st. Paul fortresses across
the Neva river. At 2 o'clock this
morning the woman's battalion which
had been defending the winter palace
surrendered.
The workmen's and soldiers dele
gates are in compiete control of the
CITY, ...
Premier Kerensky was reported
.last night at Luga, IS miles south
west Of Petrograd.
Late yesterday evening, after the
government forces had been driven
into the winter palace, the palace was
besieged and lively fire Of machine
guns and rifles began. The cruiser,
Bridge, moved up within range, firing
shrapnel. Meanwhile the guns OF the
st. Peter and st. Paul fortresses
opened fire.
The palace stood out under the
glare Of the searchlights of the crui-
ser and offered good target for the
guns The defenders held out for
four hours, replying as best thoy
could with machine guns and rifles.
There was spasmodic firing in other
parts Of the city, but the worlmen's
and soldiers troops took every means
to protect citizens, who were ordered
to their quarters. The bridges and
the Nevsky Prospect, which early in
the afternoon were in the hands Of
the government forces, were captured
and held during the night by the
workmen's and soldiers troops.
The battle at the palace, which be-
gan shortly after 6 o'clock, was
spectacular one, armed cars of the
revolutionists swinging into action in
front of the palace gates, while
flashes from the Neva were followed
by the explosion Of shells from the
guns Of the Aurora.
-, Internal Strife Probable.
90 Washington, Now S.-Kerensky,s
= fall and the collapse Of his govern
ment in Petrograd into the hands of
the. Maximalists, who propose an
armistice to the end Of an immediate
and just peace with Germany, is re-
garded here as threatening Russia
with the CIVIL war which all her
friends hoped to see avoided.
The State Department, entirely
without official advices of it's own,
was silent, wishing to avoid making
any statements until the situation
could be accurately assessed on the
basis Of intimate reports from Am
bassador Francis at Petrograd.
The Russian embassy too, prefer
rcd not to make statement until af-
ter there has been opportunity for
communication with Ambassador
Bakhmeteff, who was travelling in
the South.
The embassies Of the entente allies,
realizing that the development means
hrst Of all probably rearrangement
OF their war plans, were shocked, but
not disheartened, at what is consid-
cred triumph Of insidious German
propaganda.
Pctrograd Not All Russia.
Memphis. Tenn, Nov. 8.-Boris A.
Bakhmeteff, Russian ambassador to
the United States, who arrived here
to-day from Washington, delivered
an address at the Central High
School, was entertained at luncheon
at the Country Club and spoke to a
large gathering tonight, leaving