The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-11-20
HUNGER HOVERS
RUSSIAN CITIES
UNDER THE REDS
Famine Appears in the Wake CT
Slavic Reign Of Terror
and Blood
DRAMATIC STORY OF
PHONE EXCHANGE FIGHT
Radical Leader Relieves Little
Garrison by Holding Off
Attackers.

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in Russia suddenly has become more
pressing than the question of revolu
ton or counter revolution. Not only
in PetrOgrad and Moscow, but also al
the front.
The spectre of famine appears tc
have done more than the force OF
arms to bring about quiet At many
places the Bolsheviki and BOurgeOise
the pacitists and the military cadets
and the kerenskyites and the Lenin
ties have joined forces against the
common enemy hunger-in a con
Centrated effort to stave off disaster
which seems almost inevitable in view
of the disorganized state of transpor.
tation and widespread destruction of
stores and supplies.
The political situation, roughly
speaking, is that the Bolsheviki's have
been victorious everywhere. A Mos
COW telegram says:
1.-THE fighting lasted in the city from
the seventh to the fifteenth and ended
in complete victory for the Bolshe
wiki. The casualties amounted to sew.
eral thousand and the property dam
age was heavy, including large loss
to residential property in various parts
of the city. All is now quiet and ex-
cellent order is being maintained
, Dispatches from PetrOgrad say that
the BOlsheviki were entirely victori-
Gus, that Premier Kerensky has dis.
appeared and apparently is almost for
gQuen.
FIGHT At PHONE EXCHANGE.
San Francisco, Cal, Nov. 20.-De-
tails of the fighting in the streets of
PetrOgrad incident to the Bolsheviki
revolution were printed today by the
San Francisco Bulletin in a special
cablegram from its staff correspond
ent, mentioned in first dispatches as
being one of two Americans who took
shelter in the telephone exchange,
around which the fighting conferred.
The Bulletins cablegram, dated Nov.
10, and delayed in transmission, in
part said:
II was in the telephone building
Sunday while squad of so military
cadets tried to hold it against Boil
sheviki sailors and red guards. In
the doorway talking to the cadets was
an American socialist, Albert R. Will
Jams, who pulled me into the shelter
of the entrance. Upstairs we found
300 operators plugging in calls while
rifles cracked outside the windows.
Barrieade Fighting.
"At 2 o'clock the sailors attacked
the cadets in the streets. Boys trained
in the business of war had built barri-
cades of boxes and boards across the
sidewalks. Some hid behind motor
trucks, resting their guns on the en-
gines; some lay fiat in the mud and
others fired from underneath trucks.
"The girl operators faces were pale
and their hands trembling. They hud-
died together or fled in one direction
or another as the firing marked the
danger points, but hundred or moro
stayed at their posts until 4 o'clock,
when the firing reached its height
and caused panic. Twenty remained
at the switchboards until the building
was surrendered.
'In room on the second floor was
Antonoff, head of the Bolsheviki war
ministry, and some other prisoners.
In the middle of the afternoon the
cadets tried to start peace parley,
Offering to surrender Antonoff If al
lowed freedom for themselves
No Quarter.
"'We will take AntOnOff from you
and kill every last one of you,' was
the answer.
"The boys became desperate.
"'Why doesn't kerensky come
they asked again and again. Their
stock of ammunition diminished The
rcd guard and sailors were crOwding
the courtyard and the firing had
stopped. Everybody was paralyzed in
to inaction. Then Williams came in
to the room with Antonoff.
"'Taveriskh AntOnOff, save our
lives pleaded the cadets. Terms OF
surrender were quickly arranged and
Antonoff and Williams went down to
face the red guard. Maddened by the
loss of their own men, these were
eager to be upstairs.
Antonoff to Rescue.
81 have given my word of honor
as revolutiOnist that the boys shall
not be killed, and as revolutionists,