Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-12
LOYAL TROOPS AND
BOESHEVIkI MA "
NOW BE ENGAGED
Moscow Restored to Keren-
sky Regime and Troops Of
Provisional Government
Believed to Be Marching
on Petrograd.
NO COMMUNICATE.

IStTOSTdu, ny WlTtltSS " hou-
don, Nov. 12.-No communicate was
issued from headquarters today.
This is the first word received
direct from Petrograd since Sun
day forenoon. Non issuance of an
official statement may mean the
Kerensky government desires to
withhold information as to troop
movements from the Bolsheviki in
Petrograd, with whom they are
probably at this moment fighting.
London, Nov. 12.-The Bolsheviki
government" of Russia is crumbling
fast. 1t may already have crumbled
away. Moscow is once again restored
to control of the provisional govern
ment.
There is every probability that the
expected battle between Kerenskys
loyal troops and the Trotsky- -Lenine
factions is now in progress.
Not since Sunday forenoon have any
detailed dispatches been received here
from Russia. And none since then
have come direct from Petrograd. This
silence, as London interpreted it to-
day, betokened a battle. The last word
received from Petrograd direct told
of the near approach of Kerensky and
his loyal government troops. 1t also
declared that even In the city itself
elements were banding together to oust
the Trotsky-Lenine usurpers of power.
VICTORY IN SIGHT.
London does not expect the Bolshe-
Wiki to put up much of a fight. They
are constitutionally not fighting men.
They would not stomach a contest
where the forces arrayed against them
| were nearly their equal in number.
Despite the kaledeiscopic changes
and uncertainty of information from
various Russian sources, the London
press reflected a more cheerful atti-
tude today The conviction was ex-
pressed everywhere that Kerensky had
once again drawn strength from initial
defeat.
German agents, with which the army
Is known to be plentifully sprinkled,
are probably doing their utmost to
prevent the lining up Of Kerensky's s
forces against the revolutionists. One
dispatch received from Moscow, told
of certain troops ordered to entrain
for service against the Bolsheviki who
mutinied and attempted to halt pass
age of special trains bearing their SOL
diers toward Petrograd.
| SWITCH ALLEGIANCE.
Most encouraging of the late news
was word from 'Petrograd that the rail-
way post and telegraph employees
all government servants-had switched
.I | on a RnlahoViki
back to the provisional government
and refused to obey Bolsheviki CEN
sors. This opened the first channel OF
news from Kerensky's side as to con-
ditions in the capital. Special cor
respondents for London newspapers
in Petrograd sent dispatches agreeing
that support of the pacifists was dis
solving.
According to these dispatches there
has already been some fighting on the
streets of Petrograd. A great deal has
been due to lawless elements taking
advantage of the disorganization II
, the capital to loot and rob.
! LooTERs SHOT.
Numerous government buildings, in
cluding the winter palace have beer
stripped by soldiers of decoration!
and valuables, the process going OF
openly. Many of these soldiers, loaded
, with their booty, have encountered
provisional government troops clos
, ing in on the city and have been shot
' Wireless dispatches from Moscow
declared that the counter revol
against the Bolsheviki was in progres
in Petrograd and that overthrow o
the pacifists was only matter o
hours. The same source asserted tina
the village of Tsarkoe- Selo. about L
miles from Petrograd. had been takel
by Kerensky troops.
ALl-RUSSiA ORGANIZATION.
= Formation of an all-Russian organi
xation to rescue the nation was ais
J, reported. Kerensky, with Genera
, AIexieff, chief Of staff of the army. wa
: reported to have escaped the Bolshe
Wiki by lying concealed in the bottom
= of an ambulance.
One dispatch from Petrograd de
tailed that the Russian fleet whic
appeared in Petrograd in time to over
awe the provisional governments de
tenders and make the Bolsheviki cou
certain came from Helsingfors o
forged instructions. The fact that
German fleet attacked Helsingfor
last Friday or Saturday is too closel
= related to the removal of Russia
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