The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-11-08
MAX|MAL lists
IN BLOODl[SS
COUP D'ETAT
Immediate Armi3ticc with Ger
many One of the First Planks
In Platform
LAND MUST BE HANDED
OVER TO PEASANTS
President Of Executive Council
Announces End of Provisional
Government g..

UOVtIuMcUt
London, Nov. 8.-The Maximalists
have obtained control OF PetrOgrad
and have issued proclamation say
ing the new government will propose
Immediate peace, the semi-Ofticlal Rus
sian news agency announces.
The MaXimalists were assisted by
the Petrograd garrison, which made
possible a coup detat without blood
shed.
A proclamation sent out through the
wireless station of the Russian gov
ernment today and picked up here
states that the garrison and prOletar-
lat Of Petrograd have depOsed the
kerensky government. sr;
Leon Trotzky, president of the cen
trail executive committee OF the Pc
trograd council OF soldiers and work
meIs delegates issued 10 declaration
to the efgect that the provisional gov
ernment was no longer in existence.
The preliminary parliament has been
Dissolved. . ra,,,s atgs ,4Ay,4s'5
Al Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from / etrog, al says a strong detach-
ment OF troops OF the soldiers and
workmcns delegates occupied the Lal-
tic railway staLlOn, and tnai the gov.
renment conmendeered all motor
cars, cUnfinlng the troops TO the bar
racks. a /,
Call for Delegates.
A wireless dispatch from PetrOgrad
says that the council OF soldiers and
workmen's delegates have announced
that the split in tho council has been
healed, and that call has been sent
out for a delegate from each 25,OOJ
of the population TO express the will
Of the Russian army. - ,.ts, T.,
The Russian news agency which as
reported last night was seized by the
Maximalists sends the following dis
patch from Petrograd, dated $3.50
o'clock last evening: o..
THE day brought certain changes
in the general situation in the capital.
Ine MaXImallsLs movement made
fresh and very appreciable progress,
but no disorders have taken place.
"Toward five O'Clock in the after
noon, the military committee OF sol.
diers' and workmen's delegates issued
a proclamation stating that Petr0grad
was in us hands, thanks to the assist
ance of the garrison which enabled
the coup d'etat to be brought about
without bloodshed"
Immediate Peace. .....
The proclamation declares that the
new government will propose an I'M
mediate and just peace, will hand the
land to the peasants, and will sum-
mons the constituent assembly.
delegates from the three COssack
regiments quartered here declared
they would not obey the provisional
government and would not march
against the soldiers and workmen's
delegates, and would not maintain
puJ bic order.
The Petrograd council Of soldiers
and worlmens delegates had meet
ing this afternoon at which M. TrOt-
zky made his declaration that the gov
ernment no longer existed, that some
of the ministers had been arrested.
and that the preliminary parliament
had been dissolved.
.Nikchi Lemine, who received pro-
lOnged cheers, outlined three prob
lens now before the riUssian demOc-
racy.
FIRST, immediate conclusion of the
war; fer which purpose the new gov
renment must propose an armstlce to
the belligerents.
second, the handing over of the
land to the peasants.
Third. settlement of the economic
crisis.
At the close of the sitting, dec
laration was read from the represen'
tariyes of the democratic MaXimalists
party of the soldiers and workmen's
delegates, stating that the party dla.
proved OF the coup d'etat, and with.
drew from the council OF soldiers aad
workmen's delegates.
SITUATION SERIOUS.
London, Nov S.-Major Gen. Fred.
erick B. Maurice, chief director OF mil
itary operations at the war Office, said
10 the Associated Press:
The Italian situation is serious, but
a considerable part OF the alarmlst
talk which has been circulating is un-
true. The report that Won Macken-
sen made the attack with force Of
10000 men is fabrication. The en-
emy forces were commanded by Won
Below not by Won Mackensen.
"Moreover, the attack was no sur
prise to General Cadorna, who knew
it was coming so far in advance that
he issued communique warning the
.roops about it.
"The withdrawal of the Italians
from the Tagliamento line need cause
no Encouragement, because this was
part of Cadorna's scheme, from the
moment of the first falling back. De-
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