Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-16
Overthrow Kerensky and An.
nounce That They Will End
War With Germany.
ANARCHY is In THE SADDLE
Overthrow of New Regime Wrecks
All Chances of Participating in the
Paris Allied Conference-AII Pow
er in Hands of Usurpers.
London.-Kerensky has fallen.

LOnQOn.-herenSky mas Iallen.
Deposed with his entire govern
ment in a so far bloodless counter re-
volt by the pacifst radicals of Petro-
grad, the man who steered Russia
through eight months of turmoil is a
fugitive, hunted by the very men who
only yesterday he refused to perse-
cute.
Radicalism found the hour ripe and
completed it's work. AS a result a
raw government holds sway, set up
by the Council of Workmen's and
Soldiers Deputies. Maximalists, Boil
sheviki, extremists, radicals - ali
these factions united under the ban
ner Of the council, only small mi
nority, the Minimalists, standing
aloof The council is in full posses
sion and control of Petrograd.
Government forces holding the
Winter palace were compelled to ca
pitulate under the FIRE of the cruiser
Aurora and the cannon of st. Peter
and st. Paul fortress, across the Neva.
How the rest of Russia stands to-
ward this new regime is problemat-
ical.
Peace-"immediate, just, democrat.
ic peace"-is the keynote of the new
governments" announced platform.
AS a lure to the land hungry peas
ants the immediate handing over Of
all proprietorial lands is promised.
"Honest convocation of constitu-
tional assembly" is another plank.
But first and foremost all Russia is
given to understand that call author
ity is and must remain in the hands
of the Council of Deputies"
Summing up it's aims in a procla-
nation to the troops at the front, the
new regime says:
"Soldiers-For peace, for bread, for
land and for the power of the peo-
ple."
Initiating in form as we'll as in ac-
tion the second stage of the French
revolution, the new "government"
signs itself, @The Military Revolu-
tionary committee"
Some of the Kerensky ministers
have been arrested. Warrants are
out for others. One Of the prisoners,
it is reported, is the deposed foreign
minister, Tereschtenko.
Had the kaisers general staff been
in full charge in the Tauric palace it
could not have arranged and carried
out matters more favorably, more
pleasingly, to its imperial master.
The overthrow of Kerensky wrecks
all chances of Russia's participation
in the allied Paris conference.
Nikolai Lenine, the kaiser's "star
player" who had been hiding for
months while price was on his
head, has suddenly appeared openly.
The mask is off. To the plank of the
new government, "immediate demo-
cratic peace" he suggested two ad-
ditions:
"Offer of an armistice to the bel
ligerents."
settlement of the economic crisis
But shrewdest Of all is Lenine's
PROPOSAL Of a "settlement of the eco
no5uic crisis" 1t is nothing short or
an economic agreement with Ger
many, the first step toward the Rus
so-Teutonic economic coalition that
Berlin and Lenine are planning.
Three Cossack regiments already
have declared themselves silent part
ners of the council. Refusing to obey
the Kerensky government and declln-
ing to stop the councils actions, they
now act as a sort of self appointed
police force.