The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-09
Kerensky Deposed Without Blood.
shed-Garrison Assists
MaximaIiStS.
MASTER SPY IN power
Lsnine Cheered at Meeting of Sol
diers' and Workmen's Council
Trotsky Announces Provi-
sional Government No
Longer Exists.

London, Nov. 9-Maximalists have
seized control of the Russian pro-
visional government and have deposed
Kerensky, the Russian news agency
reports in a dispatch from Petrograd.
The news agency, which was seized
. by the bolsheviki, also reports that
a proclamation was issued by the new
government saying an immediate
peace would be proposed and that Of
ficials of the Kerensky government
have been arrested.
Aided by Garrison.
The maximalists were assisted by
the Petrograd garrison, which made
possible the victory without blood
shed.
Leon Trotsky, president of the GEN.
trail executive committee of the
Workmens and Soldiers council, is
sued an announcement that the pro-
visional government was no longer
In existence and that some of its mem
bers have been arrested. The pre-
liminary parliament has been dis
solved.
Text of Proclamation.
The text OF the proclamation or the
military revolutionary reads
"To army committees of the active
army and to all councils of Soldiers
and Workmen's delegates and to the
garrison and proletariat of Petro-
grad:
1--WE have deposed the government
of Kerensky, which rose against the
revolution and the people. The
change which resulted in the doposi.
ton of the provisional government
was accomplished without bloodshed.
"The Petrograd Council of Sol
diers and Workmen's delegates sol
emnly welcomes the accomplished
change and proclaims the authority
of the military revolutionary commit
tee until the creation of a govern
ment by the Soldiers and Workmen's
delegates.
Announcing this to the army al
the front the revolutionary commit
tee calls upon the revolutionary sol
diers to watch closely the conduct
of the men in command. Officers who
do not join the accomplished revolu
IlOu lUlu6uldttly duu OpOhLy muo'
be arrested at once as enemies.
Announces Peace Program.
"The Petrograd Council of Work
men and Soldiers considers this Il
be the program of the new authority
First: The offer of an immediate
democratic peace.
Second: The immediate handini
over of large proprietorial lands. II
the peasants.
Third: The transmission OF al
authority to the Council of Soldier
and Workmens delegates.
Fourth: The honest conyoyatio
of a constitutional assembly.
1.-THE National Revolutionary arm
must not permit uncertain militar
detachments to leave the front 70
Petrograd They should use persus
sion, but where this fails they mus
oppose any such action on the PAL
Of these detachments by force will
out mercy.
"The actual order must be rea
Immediately to all military detacl
ments in all arms. The suppressio
OF this order from the rank and fl
by army organization is equivalent
q great crime aginst the revolutio
and will be punished by all strengt
of the revolutionary law.
Soldiers! For peace, for brea
for land and for the power of II
people!
(Signed)
'The Military Revolutionary Commi
tee."
Won't Obey Government
Delegates from the three Cossat
regiments quartered here declar'
they would not obey the provision
government and would not mar
against the Soldiers and Workmer
delegates, but that they we're pl
pared to maintain public order.
The Petrograd Council of Soldie
and Workmen's' delegates held
meeting at which M. Trotsky ma
his declaration that the govenme
no longer existed; that some of I
ministers had been arrested and tn
the preliminary parliament had be
dissolved.
Cheers For Lenine.
Nikolai Lenine, who received p
longed cheers, outlined the pxob}el
now before the Russian democracy
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