Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-11-14
CIVIL WAR RAGING
IN RUSSIAN CAPITAL
At Last Accounts, London Hears
That Bolsheviki Still Are
in Control.
KERENSKY BADLY DEFEATED
Maze of Contradictory Dispatches
Como Out Of Strife-Swept
Petrograd.

49, 3 oN'
LONDON. Noycm her l3.-Ciyil War is
In full blast in and around petrosrad
That. and nothing else is certain At
last accounts. the 10 lsheviki were still
In control OF the city But last ac-
counts" do not cover a multitude OF
happenings that may have come tn
pass since the latest adviccs reached
here from the strifc-suept capital
where ever hour makes history.
The assumption that the Bolshcviki
are still in power is based on Tie FAC.
that every direct word from pctroErad
said go. To the victor belonss the
telegraph station. /, is invariably the
first thing seized by the winners of a
battle for power
A maze of con;radictory dispatchc,
reached London to-day. Those COM
ing from retroGrad direct reported a
smashing defeat inflicted on the kc-
rcnsky- kornilon forces. Eercnsky. af-
ter his dramatic fight from Pctrograd
made l<orni!oif tho commander OF
troops loyal 10 the provisional gov
ernmcn,. DispG tchcs received by a
roundabout route. VIA Scandinavia. said
exactly tho opposite. According to
these. kerensky had won a decisive
victory. kornion had entered Petro-
grad, and Lenine. the radical IRE
micr." was under lock and key
Altogether. the assumption seemed
justified tonight that the Lenine-
Trotzky promises TO the massa. OF
bread. peace and power have ter,ror-
ari!y hypnotizcd ;hc bulk of the rol-
diers. workers ani peasants. and that
these masses are still clinsing to the
millennium preachers in the hallucina-
ton that their stomachs will be filled
and that they will be made landed
lords or captains of industry over
nilon.
HoLLOWNESS OF LURES
BEGINNING TO DAWN
t:ut tie ho!lowness OF the I.enine
lures has begun to dawn upon them.
advices indicate. and the Russian nno-
pic are counted upon TO awaken
promptly tc the impossibility Of thu
realization Of radical promises am, TO
rally behind the banner of law and
order before many days have passed
Two bombastic Official statements"
came from ;he BoiShcviEi camp to-day.
One was issued b. one Mouravicn, pre-.
Sunably the chief of whatever mill
tary support the Lenine government"
commands. 1t ga d:
Yesterday, after bitter fighting near
Tsarskoc Selo. the revolutionary. army
completely defeated the countc.-rcvo-
lutioHary forces OF kcrensky and Eor-
niloff.
I'm the name OF tho revolutionary
government. orCer opposition 10 ali
enemies of the evolutionary denoc-
racy and the tal-ing OF all measures
10 effect the capture 2f Kcrensky. I
also forbid similar adventures which
arc ,ndangerlnS the success of The
revolution, and the triumph OF revolu
tionary army"
Then came another, much longer
manifesto. signed by Trotzky. 'in tho
name of the peoples commissarics" +"
Both statements breathe in every line
the fear OF kerensky Knowing that
al! Russia looks upon linn ns, the
heart and the soul OF the revolution,
the radicals took pains 20 picture him
no it's fec. and themselves as its so-
viors. Knowing that as long as Ee-
rensky is at large their orgy is mon
accd by a quick. forciblc ilnis, thcs.
have ordered" hi. arrest.
NERENsKS EXPECTED
70 ESCAPE SNARE
Eut kcrcnsky. whom the secret no.
lice annals i'll tho Cars time knew
only rs the swift ono" is relied unon
By ALI we'll wishcrs OF Russia TO be
clever and circLmspect enough to
escape the fate the Trotzky-Lcninc
bund would metc on, to him
Even il the reports of his victorious
entry into rct:ograd. ALI of which ar.
vague and lacl direct confederation.
are discounted. il seems clear from
to-day's news that lie has "A strong
and loyal force behind him II.. il
believed to bc making his hcaduuar-
tors at Catchina. thirty miles south
wcst from FetroErad. 4 StocEi,uI,,,
dispatch said thar his troops had en-
tered The city and captured nart OF
il; including the Ncvsky Prospelit. tho
capitals main thoroughfarc Another
dispatch said that Korn:loh entered
the city Monda%. and rallied the Whole
garrison except tic sailors behind him
II added that the foreign Ambassadors
arc in communication with the gen
cral.
Then there was another rcport tn
the effect that tho CoSsacks have al,
gone over 10 kcrcnSky and arc in CON
troll Of the country. II added that the
Cossacks had badly beaten the Fol
sheviki. the latter rctrcating TO Pctro-
grad.
The stuat ion at Moscow is similarly
nchulous. The American consulate
there has been the center OF violent
street fighting, which made il impos-
sib1c for the United States consul
general 10 get in touch with John r.
Stevens. head of tho American railroud
commission. This was Sunday. The
consurs message. sent to Ambassador
Francis at Pctrograd. said that All
Americans in Moscow were safe. II,
added:
at seems tho government troops aro
winning. Rumors Coasacks already ar
rived"
Ambassador Francis himself up to
early to-day had received no word
from Washington since November Z.
!Ic said he would remain In PetroErad
to safeguard American interests. No
offers had becn made to him by the
Bolshevki, he declared.