Evening star., 1917-11-11
H0u the B0Lsheuiki Seized
the Rei,1s From KerenSky
Graphic Word Picture of Scenes in Petrograd
Before and During Radicals
Hours of Triumph
LOUIS EDGAR BROWNE.

BY LOUIS EDGAR BROWNE.
Cablegram to The Sunday star ana
Chicaxo Daily News. Copyright, 1917.
PETROGRAD. Russia, November
(delayed) additional details or
the overthrow of the provisional gov
ernment by the bolsheviki may now be
given.
Tuesday night the government off,
cials became panic stricken and hur-
riedly made preparations for resisting
the blow which was obviously impend-
ing. It's first act was to order the
bridges over the Neya to be swung SO
as to prevent traffic between the manu-
featuring districts. which are on the
other side Of the river, and the Hain
art Of tho city. The bolsheviki hao
tha bridges opened to traffic within an
hour.
rv.rv nnit which Kerensky summon
- 20 hts support either fatty refused
to obey either through sympatny W.
the soviet or succumbed to soviet m
fiuences soon. after responnins ,e.ders 70 ers
held conference at 3 o'clock "ednes-
day morning, but failed to come 70 any
ngreement They were still IN an an
Rry mood regarding the prov ,sioaa' a,,.
I -
olution Of July and In the hofh'ioAA
affair.
Two Units Back Kerensky.
When day dawned Kernesky found
only two units supporting MIN -
Women's battalion which was encdHp
Cd on the Winter Palace Square ana
S,,rIar battalion composed OF student
onMsrers from the Dranten Baum Mill
tary School. .
lost to him: at Least for ne tne 'ilhh abandon"
inC his baggage and personal enects'
he left the city in an automoplie. wen
hera Of the soviet declared later IN the
afternoon that he had oeeh arles.ea'
hnt this proved not to be the case:
Clashes were momentarily expected and
The Neysky Prospekt was barricaded
from end to end. All traffic was stopped
by soviet troops. outside OF this thor-
ourhfare However, the street cars
Continued to run and business went on
Al usual. Railroad trains were oper-
efad as usual and even the munitions
factories went on with their work.
Occasional Street Clashes.
Here and there in the streets there
were occasional clashes and some hlty
minor casualties Wee Weer al Ieporee dsr Wednese .e
day and in the evening there We're
n,,mber of heavy machine gun fusil-
| ladies' near the Winter Palace. several
salvos of artillery were heard. put what a !
or where the target was could not be
learned. So effectively was the coup
d.etat engineered by the soviet that the
majority OF the people IN Petrograd
did not know anything about IT until
| hours after it occurred. The good-na-
tnred street crowds were seemingly
hanpy and gay. Every one was smil-
| ing and joking.
50 far as thhe capital is concerned the
provisional snr ana ana
| the former leader can rally forces to
his aid outside Of Petrograd remains
| TO be seen. although everybody here
believes it to be fmpossiole-
! Under the leadership OF Leon Trot-
zky the soviet is in full control of the
| situa ton and is using every effort to
have the local soviets eNeryWnre
throughout the nation seize the reins
gates to the a1l-Russfa congress, now
p session. are men OF bolheviki tend
| encies
| Winter Palace Attacked.
| 1ust before midnight Wednesday
soviet troops with numerous armored
! cars and several machine gun detach-
ments. aided by the big guns OF the
! cruiser. launched an attack on the
| Winter Palace. which was the last
| stronghold of the provisional govern l.
noant in the Russian capital. The
| armored cars took up positions on the
| Nevsky Prospekt and other nearby
| streets opening on the Winter Palace
| square The machine gun deta chments
| nsad as breastworks huge mounds OF
| winter wood fuel which was piled be-
! fnrs the foreign Office and the general
| stan headquarters, on the opposite side
| of the palace square.
| Then the Winter Palace garrisan was
| eummoned to surrender Gnconditional-
| To hut refused For the space of sew
| aral minutes there was a terrific din
| from the firing of rifles and machine
| Guns. punctuated by frequent and vfo-
! IRON, the Aurora struck the palace. A
vivid fash like a streak of summer
! iiphtnine sweeping across the sky gave
Warning. even before one heard the
,letonation that another shell was com
| ing. Immediately this flash was OBJ.
served the groups of soldiers on the
side streets gesticulated unconsciously
and took cover.
I Reply Vigorously to Attack.
| Four cabinet ministers were supposed
( 70 he in the Winter Palace-Terest-
chonko, Konovaloc, Kishkin and Mkt
fin These with the womens battalion
i and the tunkers from the Oranienbaun
| military Academy defended the palace
and replied vigorously to the attack by
the soviet troops
| Petrograd was thronged with armed
sailors from the Baltic fleet. which
unanimously cast its lot with the soviet
THE cruiser Aurora and several destroy
ers proceeded to the Neva several days
ago preparatory to assisting the soviet
lwhen the time was ripe. When on Wed.
lnnaAaW XAranslY ordered tho Aurora n