The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-12
Captures Tsarskoe-Selo and
Opens Communication With
Friends in Capital
LENiNE-TROTSKY BUND
RAPIDLY CRUMBLINC
Fighting in Streets Reported.
Belated Reports Tell How
Premier Escaped First Fury
of Mob

London. Nov. 11.-lEerensky is back
in she ring. At the head of some
100000 loyal troops he is reported
marching on Pstrogrsd.
In the capital the support behind
the Lenine-Trotslxy bund is fast
crumbling The Railway Workers
union, which can tie up all Russia
overnight. has deserted the Bolshe-
wiki government. and strike IL
threatened, The Moscow garrison has
gone back to Kerensky's side. The
garrison OF Petrogrnd, Lenine's chief
weapon. Is wavering
Troops backing karensky have TAX
en- Tsarskoe- Selo. where Nicholas had
his great palace that later became his
prison.
Details Of how Kerensky succeeded
in esca ping the fate OF his fellowmin-
listers are as yet lacking, but in it's
rough outline the story could be pieced
.togsther tonight from eye-witnesses,
reports and rdmors;
The night that the Roishevifi
perched on motor cars hristling with
machine guns, tore loose against the
provisional government, there came
dashng from the direction of the
Tauric palace n great grey automo-
bile ambulance. Its changing bella
commanded gangway everywhere,
causing even II g rebels to pause In
rnetr Wrfd venture. TO let the sick
man" pass AZ top speed the ambu-
lance raced through the Neysky Pros
pect and disappeared in the dark
aess.
Ill Omen tor Bolsheviti.
II was 'nanifestiy a hurry call.
race for life. Sorie OF the Bolsheviki
cif.ettsfr7 --oiced dlspleasure. II SEEM
ed an I'll omen. Iad those who cast
a curious t,auce behind them been
able to pehetrate the heavy curtains
that covered the glass part of the am
hulance door they would have only
seen II great Whit, sheet covering an
apparently -uftless form.
Under that sheet lay Alexander
Feodorich Eerensky. He was indeed
racing for life; not so much his own,
as for hat Of Russia,
That was Wednesday night,
Whittier the ambulance took hin,
is not known lTact is. that a day
or two later BE appeared at general
headquarters ,n' rallied a strong
force Of 10, nj tr pops behind him.
Whether lie Ind conferences with
KnrniloT or Ia Iodine. or with both, is
also unet rtair. f3ut there is strong
report that IN 'iti. and that the three
ks" then AMI tliers formed a sacred
alliance with {, g vow to save Russia
from her foes. at tome and at the
front
Meanwhile The Be lsheviki hold on
the capital ard the rest of Russia Is
fast breaking Ia pieces. ''Premiert
Lenine seems 80 have been tried and
found wanting by his countrymen in
n short AM convincing test. What
will happen to him and 10 TrotsiSy. the
former New York East Side newspaper
reporter. once me workers, soldiers
and peasants be,>orn. convinced that
these two men attempted to deliver
Russia into the hands of their enemy,
in a thought TINT makes those who
know the Russia ms shudder.
Rule of iron Fand Expected.
If Kerensky succeeds In recapturing
control it IL believed he will institute
the rule of the iron hand which he 50
often threatened but never employed.
His experience at the hands OF those
whom he time and again saved from
the wrath OF their countrymen is be-
lieved to have taught him a bitter les
son.
The first thing that the pro- Keren-
sky troops did when they took Tsar-
SIX oe -SeIo was to seize the chief wire
less sta tion. In Petrograd, also. the
Bolsheviki monopoly or outgoing news
il losing This waS indicated by n
dispatch from the capital that Ke
rensky has gathered an army of full
" 200. 900 men. Nor would the Lenine
censorship have allowed to PASS the
MESA ge. received by Weekly Dis
patch. that the Railway Workers un-
ion has bolted.
Kerensky, according to another dis
patch Is now in communication with
loyal troops In Petrcgrad. Street
fghtinr is reported to be going on
in the capital
Another force loyal to the provis-
ionaI government is said to be march
ing on Petrograd from Finland This
may spell danger rather than hope,
however, for the Germans are report
ed to have taken Heisingfors. the
Finnish capital.