The Prescott daily news., 1917-12-10
TELLS OF KORNILOFF
 REVOLT IN RUSSIA
Follows the Third Article By Wm. c. Shepherd, Lately U. F. Correspondent at PetrOgrad Tells of the kOrnilOff Revolt.

cIONhuOln, OcI. 70 (BN Mall )- KerenslIy whipped the Bolshevili in the July uprising, but, instead of pun ishing Lenine and Trotsky, he per mitted them their liberty. He later released every Bolsheviki prisoner
 This gave the soldiers at the front great cocurage to oppose the war. There are some terrible secrets yet to ] be told of how the Russian soldiers killed their officers after they saw that Kerensky had not dared to pun ish the Bolsbevilli. Every Russian soldier, who does not want to fight, is a Bolshevik, not for reasons of socialism, but because the Bolsheviki openly say they want the war to end,
 The only way to save these officers was to restore capital punishment. Kerensky could not bring himself to agree to capital punishment. True enough, at one time, he promised not to oppose capital punishment in the front lines, but he never declared him self in favor of it.
 Korniloff knew, as a soldier, that a soldier, in warfare must have sure death and disgrace behind him, if he retreats, and only possible death and honor before him, if he advances. No fighting army can exist without capi- tai punishment. At the Moscow con- ference Korniloff said that capital punishment must be restored through out the Russian army, both at the front and at the rear.
 Within a few days after making this declaration Kornilotf was advanc- ing on Petrograd, seeking the dicta- torship of Russia. Capital punish ment' that was Korniloff's war cry Of course the soldiers of Russia( al- most to a man, were against Korni- loff. To them he meant the end of the soldiers self government; he meant the end of their trench meet ings and speechifying.
 Kerensky met the Korniloff situa- ton with his same bravery-anl lack of decision When Kornilof sent his demand that Kerensky turn over the government to him Kerensky's friends fell away from him as if he were the plague. The Winter Palace rooms in which he had his headquarters were deserted. Even the clerks did not come to their work. The Winter Pal ace was like place doomed to de- struction. Only Botchkorava, the white-haired old "grandmother of the revolution" who had moved into the Winter Palace to be near Kerensky with her advice and her mothering stood by him.
 In those days, it was feared that the palace might be bombed at any time On the floor below Kerensky's quar- ters a fire broke out that, for time threatened to destroy the left wing of the palace But still Kerensky. who had every reason to fear for his life, to fear of being murdered in his rooms, stood pat and refused to sur render to Korniloff.
 Each day, as the Kornloff troops came nearer to Petrograd, Kerensky grew bolder and bolder. He sent out defies, by wireless; he issued state ments to the press; he ordered Korni- loff's arrest. He sent out troops, in whom he could have had little conf dence, to meet the Korniloff forces and he sent out three miles of freight cars and locomotives to block the railway near Tszarky Selo, He closed down the biggest newspaper in Rus ! sia.
 1 When the troops of the Kerensky and Korniloff parties met, they fra ternized; Korniloff had lost and Ker- ensky had won. Russia cheered for 1 him, as it cheers for every victor. in civil war. The Kronstadt sailors, who had caused the bloody massacre in July, and who had guarded Kerensky and the Winter Palace during Korni- loff advance, seemed to worship him.
 Kerensky had Kornil6ff arrested, And yet, though he had been willing to risk his own life in the venture, he declined to take the life of Korniloff. Today it is clear that twice he made