The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-11-08
RADICALS IN
CAPITAL TAKE
CONTROL OF
GOVERNMENT
Soldiers and Workmen Able
To Overthrow Constitu-
tional Force Without Any
Bloodshed.
TO POSTPONE PEACE

LONDON, Nov. S.-Premier Keren.
sky has been deposed.
A proclamation sent out through the
wireless stations of the Russian gov.
eminent today and picked up here
state that the garrison and proletariat
of Petrograd have deposed the Keren.
sky government. The new govern.
ment will postpone immediate peace.
A wireless dispatch from Petrograd
says the Council of Soldiers and Work.
mems Delegates has announced that
the split il the council has been heal.
ed and that call has been sent out
for delegate from each $4,000 of the
population to express the will of the
Russian army. The Petrograd gar
rlson made the coup d etat possible
without bloodshed.
Attempt Was Expected.
1t has been indicated for some time
past that an attempt was to be made
by the Maximalists in Petrograd to
seize control of the capital November
2 was the date originally set for an
extremist demonstration which was
expected by its promoters to result in
the taking over of power by this ele-
ment. A postponement to an an.
nounced date was afterward decided
on.
The Maxinaalist or Bolshivih ele-
ment, comprises the most extreme
class of the Russian revolutionary So
cialists. 1t first sprang into promin-
ence in the early days of the revolu-
tion under the leadership of Nikolai
Lenine, the radical agitator. who later
was put under han of the provisional
government because of his ultra-radic-
al preachments and his suspected pro-
German leanings.
He is known to have been in Petro-
grad for some time past, however, but
a government order for his arrest fail
ed to result in his apprenshion Mean
while the MaNmalists were uLder the
leadership of his chielf lieutenant
Leon Protzky, whose home was in the
United States when the revolution
broke but who sailed for Russia short.
ly afterwards.
Led in 1905.
He was one Of the leaders in the
1905 revolution.
The strength of the Maxtmalists
has lain in the support which thew
obtained from the military chiefs in
the Petrograd garrison. among
which they have been able to work
with little interference from their
government
They have failed, however, to i'm.
press their policies upon Russia as a
whole as has been shown by the
manner in which they were outvoted
in the all Russian congress and the
minority they played in the organiza-
ton of the preliminary parliament in
which they refused to participate aft
er they were shown to be outnum-
bered
Nevertheless, their influence upon
Russfa's policy both internal and ex-
ternal has been marked because of
their predominance in Petrograd, the
seat of government 1t was this sin
lister influence that in part prompted
the recent proposal by the Kerensky
government to remove the capital to
Moscow where it was believed the
government would be freer to rep
resent adequately the will of the
whole Russian people.
Worked Through Capital.
The Bolshiviki have worked chiefly
through the Petrograd Council Of
Workmen and Soldiers delegates
which was theirs absolutely.
1t appeared for time after the fail
ure of the korniloff rebellion that
kerensky might succeed in tiding
Russia over the dangerous shoals
upon which she had drifted as the
result of divided council and the
seemingly irreconcilable diverse cur
rents.
That he was becoming discouraged
over the situation, however, was in
dicated by a recent interview with him
in which, although he declared Russia
was still emphatically in the war, he
asserted she had been worn out by
the struggle and felt she had right
to claim that her allies henceforth
assume the heavier part of the bur-
den.
RUSSIA is NOT SPEAKING