The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-14
Mass of Contradictory Dis
patches Proves Only the bit-
terness of Conflict
TROTZKY-LENINE BUND
AFRAID OF kEREASKf
Russian People Expected to See
Hollowncss of Promises
Made by Counter-Revolu-
tionists and Defeat Them

London, Nov. 13.--Civil war is In
full, blast in and around PetTograd-
That, and nothing else. il certain.
At last accounts the Bolshekivi were
still in control of the city. But last
accounts" do not cover a multitude 81
happenings that may have come To
pass since the latest advices reached
here from the strife-swept capisai'
VI here every hour makes history
The assumption that the Bolsheviki
are still in power is based on the fact
that every direct word from PetroSrad
said so. TO the victor belongs the
"a lppraph station. 1t IL invariably the
first thing seized by the winners OF
battle vfor power.
i maze of contradictory dispatches
reached London today. Those coming
from Petrograd direct reported
smashing defeat inflicted on the ke-
rausky-K orniloff forces. kerensky,
after his dramatic flight from PetTo-
grad. made korinloff the commander
OF troops loyal to the provisional gov
erunent Dispatches received by
round about route, via Scandinavia.
said exactly the opposite. According
10 these kerensky had won a decisive
victory. Korniloff had entered Petro-
grad. and Lenine, the radical pre-
mier." was under lock and key.
- Altogether, The assumption seemed
justified tonight that The Lenine-Trot-
zkv promises TO the masses Of bread.
peace and power have temporarily
hypnotized the bulk OF the soldiers.
workers and peasants, and that these
masses are still cinging to the mil
ilcnium preachers in the halluniciation
that their stomachs will be filed and
that they will be made landed lords
/ or captains of industry overnight
| But th~ hollowness OF the Lenine
lures has begun to dawn upon them,
advices indicate. and the Russian peo-
Pile are counted upon to awaken pres
emily to the impossibility of the reali-
cation of radical promises and to rally
behind the banner of law and order be-
fore many days have passed
Two hombastic official statements"
came from the Boisheviki camp today
! One was issued Sye one Houravfeff. pres
sumably the chief of whatever mill
tary support the Lenine government"
commands. II said:
Yesterday. after bitter fighting near
Tsarkoe- SeIo the revolutionary army
com pletely defeated the counter revo-
lutionary forces of Kerensky and
Kcrrilof.
In the name OF the revolutionary
government, / order opposition to all
enemies or the revolutionary democ-
racy and the taking OF all measures to
effect the capture of kerensky. | also
forbid sir liar adventures which are
endangering the success of the revo-
luton and the triumph OF revolution
airy army"
/ Then came another, much longer,
manifesto signed by Trotzky, lin the
name of the peoples commissaries.
Both statements breathe in every line
the fear of kerensky knowing that
all Russ-2 looks upon him as the
heart and the soul of the revolution.
the radicals took prins to picture him
as its foe. and themselves aa its saw
Tors. Knowing that as long rs keren-4
sky is at large their orgy il menaced
by a quick, fcrcihlt fms, they have
ordered" his arrest,
1 Hut kerensky, when the secret po~
| lice annals in the czar's time knew
! only as "the swift one" lis relied upon
| by all we'll wishers of Russia to be
clever and circumspect enough to es-
! cape the fate the Trotzky- Lenine bund
would mete out to him.
| Even If the reports of his vertori-
Gus entry into Petrograd, all of which
! are vague and lack direct corroborA-
! ton, are discounted, it seems clear
I from today's news that he has a
strong and loyal force behind him
He is believed to be making his head
quarters Mt Gatchina, thirty miles
! southwest from Petrograd A Stock
holm dispatch said that his troops had
entered the city and captured part OF
it. including the Nevsky Prospeckt,
the capitals main thoroughfare. An
/ other dispatch said that Kornflofr en-
tered the city Monday and rallied the
whole garrison except the sailors be-
hind him. 1t added that the foreign
| am bassadors are in communication
with the general.
Then there was another report to
the effect that the Cossacks have ala
gone over to kerensky and are in con-
troll of the country. 1t added that the
Cossacks had badly beaten the Bolshe-
wiki, the latter reaching to Petrograd,
The situation at Moscow Is sim
ilarly nebuious. The American con-
sulate there has been the center OF
: violent street fighting, which made il
impossible for the United States con-
sul-generai TO yet in touch with John
+. Stevens head of rhe American rail-
road commission This waa Suuda&
The consufs message. sent to Ambas-
sador Francis at Petrograd, said that
all Americans in Moscow were safe.
, II added:
1T seems the government troops are
winning Rumors Cossacks already
arrived"
! Ambassador Francis himself up Ia
early today had received no word
from Washington since November 8.
He said he would remain in Petrograd
to safeguard American interests. No
, offers had been made to him by the
, 15otshevikT he declared
Meanwhile the Lenine governs
ment Is being fought by the .com-
. mittee on safety formed by the mor1
moderate elements. THIS body Ia try-
ing 10 set UP an ali-Socialist goyoEm&