Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-12
Battle Believed Now In Pro-
gress In Petrograd for
Control Of Russia
MOSCOW TURNS AGAIN
TO DEPOSE PREMIER
German influence Is Especial
ly Active In Army Late
Advices Report
By Ed. L. Keen

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
London, Nov. 12.--London Is optimism
of an ironing out of the Russian sit
uation was centered on important events
which dispatches this afternoon limited
were occurring at Moscow, recently
wrested from bolsheviki control by the
provisional government forces.
Russian diplomats here hoped that
President Rodzianko of the duma, GEN
eral Korniloff and General Kaledines,
head of the all-Cossack troops, now re-
ported meeting at Moscow, would be
able to form stable government.
An authoritative dispatch dated at
Moscow yesterday at p. M, and receiv-
ed today, declared there was consider
able street fighting there and that the
provisional troops were doing well. !"
| Not since Sunday afternoon have any
detailed dispatches been received here
from Russia. And none since then have
come directly from Petrograd. This ST.
lence, as London interpreted it today,
betokenedM battle. The last word re-
ceived from Petrograd direct told of the
near approach Of Kerensky and his
loyal government troops. 1t also declar-
ed that even in the city itself elements
were banding together to oust the Trot-
I sky -Lenine ustirpers of power.
i London does not expect the bolsheviki
I to put up much of fight. They are con-
stitutionally not fighting men. They
would not stomach contest where the
forces arrayed against them were nearly
equal in number.
4 Despite the Kaleidoscope changes ana
uncertainty of information from var
ious Russian sources, the London press
reflected a more cheerful attitude today.
The conviction was expressed every
where that Kerensky has one again
drawn strength fro mlnitlal defeat.
German agents, with which the army
is known to be plentifully sprinkled, are
probably doing their utmost to prevent
the lining up of Kerensky's forces
against the revolutionists. One dispatch
received from Moscow told Of certain
troops ordered to entrain for service
against the boisheVlki, who mutinled
and attempted to halt passage of spec
ial trains bearing their soldiers toward
Petrograd.
! Most encouraging of the late news
was word from Petrograd that the rail-
way, post and telegraph employes-all
/ So W ,AN-
their allegiance from the bolshevikt
back to the provisional government and
refused to obey bolshevih censors. This
opened the first channels OF news from
Kerensky's s side as to conditions IN the
capital. Special correspondents from
London papers in Petrograd sent dis
patches agreeing that support of the pa
clflsts was dlssolvlng.
According to these dispatches, there
has already been some fighting on the
streets of Petrograd. A great deal has
been due to lawless elements taking adj
vantagMe of the disorganization in the
capital to loot and rob.
Numerous government buildings, IN
eluding the winter palace, have been
stripped by soldiers of decorations and
valuables, the process going on openly
any of these soldiers, loaded with their
booty, have encountered provisional
government troops closing IN on the elty
Wireless dispatches from Moscow de-