The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-21
Russia's Energetic Minister of
War, Has Been Made
Premier for the
Present,
iPUTTING DOWN RIoTING
Over One Hundred Were Killed In
Five Day Revolution In
Streets Of Pet
rograd.
Ono Hundred Killed.

Press Staff Correspondent
PETROGRAD. July 20.-(delayed-
via London, July 21.)-One hundred
killed. seven hundred wounded, Of
civilian and soldier and sailor rioters,
and six hundred Cossacks killed, sew.
enty wounded. is the casualty list Of
Russia's second revolution apparently
ended today after five days of rioting.
with the government in control.
Out Of tho violence and bloodshed
has come reorganization of free Rus
sia- The government is now in the
hands Of the central committee of the
"workmen's and soldiers" congress
with the provisional (duma) represen.
tatives acting as an administrative
body responsible to this executive
committee.
Affairs in Petrograd city are in the
immediate charge OF General Polovt-
xof. chief OF the army garrison.
NJ. Lebedev IL minister OF war and
marine. Kerensky's naval assistant
and M. skobelov. formerly minister OF
labor. is now acting special labor com
missioner. N. Nekrasov n railroad
minister.
Exposure Of Nicholai Lenfne, paci.
fist agitator, as a paid German agent,
uoIpCO u Gnu JuS ToU5iIlOu. lSCuluS
had artfully paraded pseudo-patriot-
ism and acquired quite following.
The government did not desire to ar
rest him, knowing he would pose as
a martyr, but went diligently to work
looking up Lenine's past record as an
exile in Switzerland and Germany.
Lieutenant Ermolenko, q Russian Of
f1cer. recently returned from Ger
man prison camp. gave the govern
ment the evidence 1t desired. Ermo-
lenko swore that when he was a pris-
oner, the Germans sent him back to
Russia to agitate for a separate peace.
He was ordered, he swore, ito coop
crate with Lenine, Madame Sumen-
son and others"
1t is believed some of the German
agents actually participated in the
firing on the streets. Lenine was still
a fugitive.
The Kronstadt revolters and other
malcontents made their last stand at
the fortress of SITS. Peter and Paul,
where the officials Of the old regime
in Russia are imprisoned. Contrary
to early report, they did not surrender.
Crowds in the streets saw armed
men on bicycles and other skirmishers
from actual trenches dug in the ap-
preaching cross-ways, run first across
Troitsky bridge. Moro invaders sneak
ed across other bridges. Somehow
they managed to gain entrance to the
fortress. Then the walls of the old
building began to be dotted with fir
ures-some sailors and soldiers In uni
form, others the black garbed Lenin-
ties who had occupied the fortress
when they were ousted from the pal
ace Of the dancer Kshesinska. .
This last stand" was dramatic Tho
rat-a-tat-tat of machine gun fire sound
ed iii the fortress yard. mingling
strangely with the mellow chimes that
poured their melody from cha glitter
ing spire. The tiny figures to bs seen
from the river bank dottfng the fort
ress walls soon began to thin out
Then over the bridges came the gov
ernment's loyal troops, escorting a
filthy, unshaven body of prisoners,
They were some of the officials Of the
old regime, their velvet suits Of other
days of gorgeousness contrasting
strangely with disordered collars,
loose neck ties and faces trembling
with fear They were the typical
weakIings of the old governm ental
aristocracy.
ltownspeople or agitators in the street
| fighting.
The cabinet as now constituted. con-
sists of six socialists and threse mem
hers of other liberal parties, but over
all the workmen's and soldiers con-
gress is completely dominant.
| \ number of women marched with
the Krons tadt sailors in some Of The
earlier clashes in the streets. In com
pany with hundred others was
caught in one of these street battles
Ilate in the afternoon, in which dozen
psorle we're killed. Those wao were
wise lay PROSTATE -lpon the ground
while the bullets hiDmed and then
ran trr shelter of zeal by houses.
From these ebserys' ION spots CT
could see women among the paraders
One sat On an automobile beside {
machine gun. immediately before this
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