The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-17
FALL OF FORMER
PREMIER LAUDED
BY RUSS PEOPLE
Little Sympathy Felt For
Old Provisional Gov
eminent.

London, Nov. 17--NQwhere through
out a journey from. the Caucasus to
Petrograd did correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph hear a word Of SYM
pathy for Premier Kerensky. The
educated passengers he met, he says,
were infuriated at Kerensky's laxity
in permitting the bolsheviki agitation
and soldiers were indignant that the
premier was unable to maintain au-
thority and order. Railroad men, the
correspondent adds, said that Keren-
sky, and Lenine and Trotzky, the
bolshevik leaders, all ought to be
thrown into the Neva.
For the provisional government no.
where was there q spark of enthu-
siasm. as it was felt to have deserved
it's fate. Everywhere, however, the
correspondent found longing for real
order and real authority and for some-
body who would save Russia from
trouble.
Throughout the 10 Ku5an terri
tories order was undisturbed, but on
arriving in Rostov on the Don on Nov
8 the correspondent found the garri-
son and workers in a ferment They
had passed a resolution in favor of the
bolsheviki, but in the neighboring
town of Novo Tcherkask, the capital
of the Don territory, the Cossack gov
eminent under Gen. Kaledines, had
declared for the provisional govern
ment, assumed full power in its own
territories, and established contact
with Cossack governments in the
neighboring territories.
/, A few DAYS before the Don Cossacks
rose. backed by the Cossacks in the
provinces of Kulban and Astrakhan,
the Kalmuks of the steppes and the
mountain tribes of Daghestan and
the Black sea coast had formed a
league of autonomous units with a
common federal government over tho
whole territory north Of the Caucasus
between the Caspian and the Black
seas. The existence Of this league,
the correspondent says. guarantees
complete order in THAI territory,
which includes the richest gr1nery IN
Russia
Gen. Ka1edines, government on Nov,
declared martial law in the disturbed
mining area in the Donetz basin, and
it was said that the miners had re-
stunned work.
The Cossack congress, which hap
pened to be sitting at Kier, took COM
mand of the situation there and i'm
meldiately arrested the Ukrainian
council and suppressed the lbolshe-
Wiki,
I'VE heard the sound of guns the
Telegraph correspondent says, "and
were told by officers that the training
school was being bombarded. Wom-
en- told terrible stories of fighting and
bloodshed throughout Saturday and
/ Sunday. They declared that the
entire broad lines were moved down
| by machine guns.
cat the station there was not a sin
gle intelligent person, and I could
only gather vague rumers of contin-
ueus fighting, of houses destroyed by
| artillery and of thousands killed and
wounded. The streets near the sta
ton were lined with people listening
to the battle, but it was said that the
streets beyond we're empty. AS the
train left the station the sound of a
volley came from somewhere near
the central pest office, The only
passenger who boarded the train in
Moscow was a soldier, whose infor-
nation was confused and fragmen-
tary, He said the foreigners were
helping the government troops"
Thereafter until the train reached
Petrograd only contradictory runners
were heard: Arriving in the city, the
correspondent found the residents
guarding the doors and gateways to
theiR dwellings,. He eaaeludesi