Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-11-20
News Writer Gives First De-
tail Report of Street Fight
ing During the Bolesheviki
Revolution In Petrograd
Delayed Cablegram Tells of
the Cadets Trying to Hold
Telephone Booth Against
Sailors and Red Guards
Cry for Kerensky
(Ry Review Leased Wire.l

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19.-DetaIls
OF fighting in the streets of PeTograd
incident to the Bolesheviki revolution
were printed today by the San Francis
@ Bulletin in a,special cablegram from
its staff correspondent, mentioned in
first dispatches as being one OF two
Americans who took shel .er in the tel
ephone exchange around which the
fighting centered.
The Bulletins cablegram was dated
November 18th, and was delayed in
transmission. In part it said:
u was in the telephone building
Sunday while squad of sixty military
cadets tried to hold it against Boleshe-
Wiki sailors and red guards. In he
doorway, talking to the cadets was an
American socialist, Albert Rhys Will
Jams, who. pulled me into the shelter
of the entrance. Up stairs we found
800 operators plugging in calls while
rifles cracked outside the windows.
Cadets Attacked.
AT O'Clock the sailors attacked the
cadets in the streets. Boys trained
in this business of war had built bar
ricades of boxes and boards across the
sidewalks. Some hid behind motor
turcks, resting their guns upon the en-
gines, some lay fat in the mud, and
others fired from underneath trucks.
',rhe girl opera .ors had deep circles
under their eyes; their faces were pale
and their hands trembling. They hud-
died together or fed in one direction
or another as the firing marked the
danger points, but a hundred or more
stayed at their posts until o'clock
when the firing reached its height and
caused a panic Twenty remained at
their switchboards until the building
was surrendered.
Suggest Peace.
In a room on the second floor was
Antonoff, head of the Bolesheviki war
ministry, and some other prisoners. In
the middel of the afternoon the cadets
tried to start a peace parley, offering
IT, surrender Antonoff if allowed free
dom for themselves.
I'VE will take Antonoff from you
and kill every last one of you was the
answer.
''The boys became desperate.
why doesn't Kerensky Gomez
they asked again and again
Their stock of ammunition was di-
minished. The red guard and sai.ors
were crowding the courtyard and the
firing had stopped. Everybody was
paralyZed into inaction. Then Will
liams came into the room with An
tonoff.
Cadets Surrender.
'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
ioss of their own men, these were Gag
er to go up stairs.
Il have given my word of honor as
a revolutionist that the boys shall not
be killed, and as revoiutionists, you
must keep that word said Antonoff.
L will myself shoot the first man who
harms one of the cadets. would
rather we all die than that this Ameri-
can should say that the revolutionists
of Russia were base and revengeful.
AS the first cadet filed down stairs
Antonoff took his hand and turning 10
the sailors, said:
Girls Not Molested.
This is number one and | trust
his life in your hands. Guard it, for
it honors the revolution
''As the last cadet passed a sailor
said: There goes the last of the trash,
but he was quickly hurried away by
his comrades.
THE girls in the telephone exchange
slipped out quietly and were no. mo-
Tested"