The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-04
KERENSKY FELL" LIKE
AROTTEN Ash BARREL
THE TRUTH THEREOF is A VERY
INTERESTING STORY OF A
"TER-R-RIBLE" BATTLE.

| The mysterious week in Russia is
rapidly losing its mystery, explains
the New York Times, editorially.
When the Bolsheviki deposed Keren-
sky, he fled and appealed to the army.
| Most of it was apathetic and hostile,
but he raised 1900 men and marched
on Petrograd. The report of his ad-
vance, spread and magnified, induced
a handful of military cadets to try,
in moment of ecstatic enthusiasm,
to overthrow the Bolsheviki before
he could get there. They were sur
rounded, shot to pieces, and captur-
ed. The whole thing was a mere
street row, which even approached
the dignity of the barricade fighting
in Paris on former occasions. At the
same time similar aimless and I'M
necessary riot broke out in Moscow,
with much more disastrous results
for thousands of innocent people,
since the rival mobs fired at long
range and without aim, like the Mex
leans in the targetless fighting that
preceded the overthrow of Madero.
BoIsheviki in Wild Panic.
Meanwhile Kerensky marched hap
PLY toward Petrograd, where the
Bolsheviki were in a panic-the pan
ic being attested by the wild procla-
nations of Trotzky and Mourbavieff.
They hurriedly collected a miscella-
neous mob of 10000 and sent it
against Kerensky's 1900. In this
amateur army of theirs were some
soldiers, good many sailors, but the
great majority were factory hands
and boys, frantically and feverishly
armed by the Bolsheviki and decorat-
ed with the bloodthirsty title of ''the
Red Guard" This assemblage march
ed against Kerensky in a condition
bordering on panic-the proof of
which is again to be found in the
Bolsheviki proclamations after the
event.
The two forces, the Bolsheviki mob
and Kerensky's Cossacks met. Most
certainly Mourbavieff, the Bolsheviki
commander, expected his men to cut
and run as soon as the dreaded Cos
sacks charged this it proved by the
delirium of JOY in which he and
Trotzky were thrown when it did not
happen. The Cossacks, officers and
men alike, were disguised with their
leader and their task, and growing
roO,,o o,oJ v,,oro disconnected o1,o,.,- ,,oi,,
use They confronted the Red Guard
for two days, occasionally firing aim
less volleys, and finally made a sullen
and apathetic charge They did not
get near enough to the Red Guard
for hand-to-hand encounter, as is
demonstrated by the BOlsheviki re-
port of the so-called "battle" in
which occurs the amusing boast that
the COssacks were dismayed to see
so many of their horses 'toppled
over"
Cossack General Disguised.
Gen. Krasnoff, the Cossack leader,
now decided that this nonsense had
gone far enough. His men were in
unanimous agreement with him that
Kerensky was nothing to fight for.
He and they were making arrange
ments to turn the premier over to
the Red Guard and go home when
Kerensky discovered what was up,
and, after demanding the truth and
learning the worst from Krasnoff, he
agreed to submit to arrest. But while
Krasnoff was TRANQUILITY preparing an
escort" to hand him over to Mour-
avieff, Kerensky escaped and disap-
peared.
Mouravieff had telegraphed his
victory" to Petrograd, and Trotzky