The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-11-09
4 THIRD POWER
ATTEMPTS TO
GOVERN RUSSIA
kerensky Forces Capitulate In
der Fire From Cruisers and
Two F0rireSses.
ORDER kERENSkY'S ARREST
Soldiers and Workmans Dele
gates Form New Government
Declaring for Freedom OF 20
liticaI Propaganda.
ORDER KERENSkY'S ARREST
Icy Associated Press.)


PETROGAOD, Nov. S.-The new
general congress. composed of five
hundred and sixty delegates and call.
ing themselves the Soldiers and
Workmens Congress elected Leon
Irotsky president OF the Central Ex-
acutiYe Committee.
The new congress issued three pro.
carnations, towit: First they de-
clared themselves in absolute power
Of all Rushsia; Second, they have
revoked the death penalty at the front
which WAS re-eslaDIished by Kerens-
KY, declaring for freedom from all
political propaganda -1apted by the
deposed government; Third. they
have ordered the arrest OF former
premier kerensky anG declared all in
completely with him to be dealt with
as committing high treason
1t is reported from the Palace that
Premier Kerensky has gone to t!N
front delegation of authority to con
: suit with Minister kishllin the Minis
ter Of Public Affairs presumingly for
he purpose of seeking projections
The government iroces who had
been holding the winter palace were
compelled to capitulate under fire
from the cruiser Aurora and the can
ION fire from the forTesses st. Peter
and ST. Paul from across the Neya
river At two o'clock this morning
he womans battalion which had been
defending the palace were obliged to
surrender.
The workman's and soldiers dele
gates now have complete control of
the city,
LONDON Nov Semi-official
news agencies state that the several
ministers of the Kerensky govern
ment were arrested and placed under
guard. They are Domo Valon, Min
lister of Trade and Industry; Kishkin.
Minister of Foreign .silairs Malyan-
tovitch, Chief Justice OF the Republic,
and Nikitin, Minister Of the Interior
Information received here states
that Leon Irolsky, president os the
Petrograd Council o. the Soldiers
and Wprl1men' Delegates. has issued
declaration that the provisional
government no longer exists and that
some OF its members have been ar
rested
The preliminary parliament has
been Dissolved by the order of the CON
trolling faction.
The MaXimilists have obtained con
troll of Petrograd and issued procla-
nation saying that the new govern
ment will make an immediate propo-
sition for peace with Germany
The Exchange Telegraph says that
troops of the Soldiers and Workmen's
Delegates have occupied the Baltic
railway station and that the new gov
ernment has Communicated all mo
tor cars and that the regular troops
have been confined to their barracks.
A proclamation sent out through
the wireless station and which was
picked up by London wireless sta
ton states that the garrison and the
poletdrlat nave deposed kerensky and
his entire government and are in full
possession
WASHINGTON, Nov. S.--The State
Department is entirely without off
clai adEices concerning the affair. and
1t was therefore silent. wishing to
avoid making any statement until the
situation could be accurately assess
ed on the basis of intimate reports
from Ambassador Francis.
The Embassies of the Entente AL,
lies, realizing that this means d com
plete rearrangement of all the allied
plans in the war, were shocked but
not disheartened the news which
came this morning.