New Britain herald., 1917-11-13
VARIOUS REPORTS
 FROM PETR0GRAD
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telegram to the committee of public safety on Sunday said that the Ker- ensky adherents there had driven the Bolsheviki into the Kremlin, where they were besieged.
 Among the reports heard Is one indicating that Lenine and Trotzky are aboard the cruiser Aurora and are directing operations from that place of safety. The. scenes on the streets today were similar to those of last Thursday when the people quiet ly transacted their business as though no bullets had disturbed them.
 At the corner of the Grand Mors- kaia and the Gorokovaia, near the telephone exchange, during the long battle on Sunday in which the Bolshe- wiki regained possession of the eX- change from the military cadets, in cidents of the fighting could be seen from the office of the Associated Press nearby. There were intermittent fusillades from rifles and machine guns during the morning and after noon as the Bolsheviki stationed 100 yards down the Morskaia, made spas- modic sorties toward the exchange. A curious crowd peered around the cor- ners, hugged buildings and crouched
 
 An armored car, manned by mili- tary cadets and stationed in the square around the cathedral of St. Issac, cleared the streets there with a fusillade in reply to occasional fir ing from Bolsheviki infantry men hidden behind the marble columns in front of the great cathedral. Some time later the fuel supply of tho car became exhausted and the car was captured by Bolsheviki sailors, who Killed two of the occupants by firing through the portholes. They then broke in the steel door and dragged the third occupant who was wounded. to the street. He was killed by the sailors while a crowd of spectators within the hotel Astoria cried out in protest. The bodies lay in the street for half an hour until hospital nurses and French officers gained permission to remove them.
 At one moment machine gun bull lets were Whizzing through the streets the next the firing ceased and the people doffed their hats as a funeral cortege, with four white horses draw ing White canopied hearse and black-garbed mourners following on foot, crossed the Morskaia directly in the line of fire.
 Bullets spattered against the facades of the building and one mili- tary cadet fell in a crumpled heap across the street from the Associated Press office. Another fell with a shot the head as he was warning the *onlookers to seek safer quarters The military cadets within the tele- phone exchange surrendered shortly after dusk when their ammunition became exhausted The city then be- came quiet except for occasional spasmodic firing.
 BOlSheViki forces, reinforced by sailors from the battlcship Petroslav- off and other warships and from Hels- ingfors, patrolled the city today. The heaviest guard, backed by artillery. was stationed at the telephone ex- change to prevent surprise attack to recapture.
 Two other clashes between the mill itary cadets and the Bolsheviki oc- cured Sunday at the Fontanka bridge, where a military cadet car was cap tured and the inmates killed, and at Vladmirsky the military cadet school, which was bombarded and captured only after a brave defense. The mill itary cadets, who correspond to the West Point cadets in America, are the only military forces in Petrograd loyal to Premier Kerensky. Until Saturday afternoon from surface indl- cations things were going fairly smooth for the Bolsheviki. Rumors of the approach of Kerensky with an armed force were given little credence.
 A wave of excitement swept over the city Saturday afternoon when re- ports arrived that battle was in progress at AlexandrOvsk, half way to Gatchina. The shutters went up, the shops were closed and excited people thronged the streets eagerly reading the posters which appeared at fre- Quent intervals.
 Throughout Saturday night and Sunday the whereabouts of Keren- skys army was the expressing sub- iect Today no news of it had been received The populace expects to hear the roar of guns announcing it's approach almost any time. Bolshe- wiki troops have been rushed to all the approaches to the city and ap- peals have been made to the factory workers to go to the suburbs to dig trenches or prepare barricades. The Nicholas, Tsarskoe-Selo and Baltl: railway stations have become armed camps.
 Petrograd was tranquil Monday
 morning. Meanwhile the committee
 of public safety is proceeding With its efforts to unite the opposition ele- ments It proposes the formation of a stable power to take charge of the government until a constituent as- sembly meets. The seizure of the central telephone exchange by the military cadets was made possible by deceiving the Bolsheviki guard, to whom the cadets presented forged credentials from the Lenine govern l ment Two Americans spent Sunday i with the cadets who defended the l building. They were Bessie Beatty, of the San Francisco Bulletin, and AL Rorto1,