New Britain herald., 1917-11-17

V active attempt of the Kerensky forces to attack, and they retreated. We now hold Tsarskoe-Selo. x
 One soldier, who had been captured by the Ct-sacks and had escaped to his own lines, told the correspondent that kerensky's Cossacks had deter-ls mined to surrender unless he was abl09 to reinforce them with "6O. 1000 troops" The premier. tho Soldier,I said, promised to get them The cor.,I respondent made 8 tour of the bAt- tlefield in a Petrograd droshl<y whose driver calmly directed his fat horse over the military road. lodging huge lorries and Red Cross motors home ward bound with wounded. Members of the red guard coming from the battlefield walked along the roads, singing. Some carried pretxels on their bayonets. These are obtainAblos in Tsarskoe-Selo, but not in Petro-s grad where only black bread Is sold.
 The droshky passed numerous een~s tries unquestioned, the soldiers Rp-5 parently considering tho ludicrouS conveyance of the correspondent above suspicion. A constant stream
 of ambulances discharged their cargo of wounded at hospitals along the TOau Just OuCS3Oe the CILy. ~ffE&4+s At Pulkova, where the soldierA sailors and the red guard shared their
 soup and black bread and discussed the victory, which had startled the inhabitants of the small village. The correspondent was directed to staff headquarters. There was an extreme contrast among the occupants of the bare. lamp-lighted room in which ap- parently had once been the parlor of a farm house. Seated about a pine table were some officers, who, though unshaven and battle-worn. showed plain evidences of their aris-f tocratic training. With them were a few common soldiers, plain sailors from the Baltic fleet and one work man wearing the badge of the red guard. These shared their common fare with the correspondent and ex- plained that they were all fighting to- gether against Kerensky.
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 The fact that the officers directing the Bolshevilzi campaign were aris- tocrats was a surprise in view of the popular supposition that the Bolghe-5 wiki included only the proletariat A staff colonel explained this as ,fol- lows:
 You probably are surprised to lind officers, many of whom fought brave ly and were wounded in the cam Y paigns against the Germans, fighting with the Bolsheviki. The truth is we were disappointed with Kerensky, who first destroyed discipline in the army and we are against him, first of all"
 This attitude was observed plainly at regimental staff quarters where the officers rejoiced over the victory. but ben oaned the reported decision Of tho Maximalist government to reduce all officers to the same pay as private1-- seven and one-half roubles a month and to force them to wear the GamO uniforms. fa
 Tho Bolsheviki troops display an attitude in obeyng tho of t1cers without question, bpt at tho same time calling them "tavarash" (comrade) and insisting on equal rights elsewhere than on the battle 1eld.
 That there is efficiency in the direc- ion of the Meximal1st army could bO noted by the long motor trains of stores, ambulances and artillery which were going toward Pulkova to- night as the correspondents droshky to Petrograd