The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-09
Lenine, Arch Potter of leu
tons, Comes Out From Hid.
ing Jubilant at New Revolt
PROPOSED PLANS WHICH
PROMISE GERMAN MULE
Success or Failure Of New
Government Deepen d 9
Upon Army~Soldiers Warn
I'D Against heir officers

London. November s.-Kerensky has
fallen.
Deposed with his entire government
In SO far bloodlsss countsr-revolt
by the pacifist radicals OF Pstrograd.
the man who staered Russia through
eight months OF trial and turmoil Ii
tonight q fugitive hunted by the very
men whom only yesterday he refused
to prosecute defytng the warnings OF
his friends.
The viper of rRdicaltsm. having fed
itself full upon the clemency of the
man with malice toward none, stuck
UP its heal In the Newska Prospect
early yesterday. complaeentiy surveyed
the neid and found the hour rips-
Cautiously 1t crept in the underground
channels of sedition to the secret coun-
ell chamber of the pacifist intriguers
and to the barracks OF the Petrograd
garrison. kissing everywhere I n .
watchword. ready" Quick as light
n.ps, It's obediene tools. intoxicated
by the poison Of promised power. per-
formed their task. Tonight they has
completed their work.
As result new government holds
| swny, set UP by the council of work
mems and soldiers deputies. Maxi
| rnaIists. Bolsheviki, extremists. radt-
cais-aiI these factions united under
| the banner of the council. only q
| small minority. the Maximaltsts stand
Ing atooK The council IL tonight in
| full possession and control of this
| capital
How the rest OF Russia stands to-
| ward this new regime Is for the pres
ent stiiI predetermined
Peaee Immediate. just, democratic
peace" 10 the keynote Of the new gov
ernment'f announced platform
As lure to the iand-hungry peas
ants the Immediate handing over OF all
proprietoriai lands " promised.
Homes, eonvooation of constitu-
/, ttonai asrembly' Is another plan,
/ But nrst and foremost all Russia
! is given TO understand that 'ali au-
! thority" Is ana must remain in the
| hands of the council of deputies
| Summing up its aims In proclarna-
ton TO the troops at the front the new
regime says:
Soldiers: For peace. for bread.
for land, and for the power OF the peo-
pc"
Initiating in form as well as In ae.
ton the second stage of the French
revolution. the nav government
signs itself: The Military Revolution.
AIRY Committee.
Ii Some OF the Kerensky ministers
have been arrested. Warrants are out
for others. One of the prisoners. It Il
reported. is the deposed foreign min
lister. Tereschtenko.
i Had the kaiser's general staff been
in full charge in the Tauric palace IL
could not have arranged and carried
out matters more favorably. more
pieaxingiy. TO its imperial master.
| " ~ a,
rensky wrecks all chances of Russia
participation in the allied Paris con-
florence next week.
i Tereschtenko, decried by the dep
uties as PRO English imperialist'
han been named by -keransky- Is Rus
| sias representative The council
named SkoheiefY, as the true repre-
sentative OF free Russia" The allie:
refused TO admit him. There lies this
ground cause of the new upheaval
Rather than be shut out from tina
conference. the radicals, stung In theil
sorest t--vanity-decided to shu
out all Russia. So they scored hons
run--for Berlin.
Skcbelef was to have urged peace
general peace"--at the Parts confer,
ence. kerensky refused to allow hin
to go. The councils verdict in assum
ing power WAS that he and his govern
ment rose against the revolution ant
the people,
Up to that moment the sinlste
forces that play the kaiser's game has
remained cautiously bslow the surface
Now they shot with serpentlike swift
ness to the forefront. Nikolh Lenine
the kaiser's star player" who hat
been hiding for months while pric,
openly. radiantly grinning in hi
friIy7ph The mask Was
81 Te the plank of the new government,
linn ediate democratic peace" he sug
. gested two additions. true samples 0
Leninte shrewdness AND trickery:
"Offer an armistice to the helliger
ents"
Settlement of the economic crisis.
Knowing full we'll that offers O
peace and armistics could meet but on,
fate at the hands of the entente O,
the eve OF council at which war L
the finish is to be resolved upon n
never before, the radicals made them
so as to be able to say: The aIliei
refuse: our enemies accept"
But shrewdest OF all Is Leninet
proposal of a settlement of the eco
nomic crisis 1t is nothing short o
J an economic agreement with Ger
many. this first step toward the Russo
, Teutonic economic coalition that Der
lin and Lenine are planning.
on Sveabors. the sea fortress pro
tccting the Finnish capital Helsing
: fors, a powerful German fleet has ar
rived. Little or no resistance is looked
for from the Firms, HeiSngfors taken
= German army could be landed and
with Finnish acquiescence or even sup
port march northward and take Petro
grad by land. with the utter confu
sion among Russia's, lighting forces
: simultaneous naval drive up the .Gul
Of Finland would be an easy matter
Marching northward from ePetrograd
frhe Germans. under such a plan rfsoult
take Archangel. and the isolation O.
} the Muscovite realm from the ives
would be complete.