Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-11-19
(By Associated Press.)
REDS" IN CONTROL.

tBy Associated Press.)
REDS" IN CONTROL.
The latest unofficial advices from
Russia indicate that Petrograd and
Moscow are still in the hands of the
Bolshevili and that Sebastopol, the
big naval base and arsenal in the
Black Sea, has gone over to the work
mems and soldiers delegates, the sail
ors of the feet having sworn allegi-
ance to them.
The Exchange Telegraph CORE
spondent at Copenhagen telegraphs to
London that the Berlin Tageblatt de-
clares Premier Kerensky and Nikolai
Lenine, leader of the Bolsheviki revo-
luton in Petrograd, have effected a
compromise essentially favorable to
Lenine.
The American embassy at Petro-
grad, according to Reuter- dispatch,
has requested that train be provided
to convey 200 members of the Ameri-
can colony in Petrograd to Harbin.
TO RELIEVE CAPITAL.
Petrograd, Nov. 18.-Reports of a
lew army composed of various ele-
nents from the front and the van
guard of which is said to be close to
Gatchina, have sent a new thrill
through the city. If the reports are
to be credited, the aim Of the new
force is to release the city from the
control of the Bolsheviki. It is COM
manded by Staff Captain Pavloff. of
the social-democratic workmen's
party, and already has had brushes
with the defending outposts of the
Bolsheviki army.
According to some versions, M.
Kerensky is returning with the army.
Still other reports tell OF an armored
train approaching from the direction
of Moscow. All the reports are i'm
possible of confirmation.
A report of the inter-frontal can
gress for the supply OF the armies
published today, declares the inability
of the congress further to- carry on
the burden laid upon it by the general
army committee and that unless the
present situation is clarified it will
give up the task and not be response
bic for consequences.
TRY TO RESTORE PEACE.
Bolsheviki leaders are endeavoring
to effect the resumption of operations
by the various branches of the gov
eminent, most of which have been
disorganized by strikes and the re-
iusal OF employees to work under the
Bolsheviki commissioners.
The newspapers which were sup
pressed in the early days of the upris-
ing have in some instances been given
permission to renew publication, al
though the status of the bourgeois
press is still indefinite:
An order of arrest for M. Neratoff,
former minister of foreign affairs, and
other officials of the foreign ministry
i3 reported to have been issued.
Capital Is Isolated.
HaDaranda, Sweden, Saturday, Nov.
l7.-The Bolsheviki we're still in COM
Dlete military control of Petrograd
when a correspondent of the Asso-
ciated Press left the city Thursday.
At that time Petrograd was complete
" isolated from the rest of Russia
by railway and telegraph strike,
called as protest against the
Bolsheviki government.
Up to Thursday morning no definite
success had met efforts to organize,
an all-sociaist cabinet in which
neither former Premier Kerensky nor
Lcnine would be included. NJ, Tcher-
noH. the socialist ex-minister of agri-
culture, was mentioned as the prob
able premier of the cabinet,
Though there have been many ru-.
mors of Bolshevikl outrages andf
cruelty. the truth appears to be that
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