The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-14
CONFIRM NEWS
KERENSKY WINS
over BIOL SHEvIKI
Provisional Govt Orders Signed
by the s"Three KS"
eliminates Three Days OF Con-
fusing Reports From Russia.
COSSACK DICTATOR IN SOUTH
Report ''Pacifist" Troops Have
Gone Over to Kerensky.
Govt Again Controls Telegraph
Bureau at PetrOgrad.
COSSACK DICTATOR IN SOUTH

London, Nov. 14-The Finnish
Telegram bureau says the whole of
Russia except a small part of Petro-
grad now is in the hands of the pro-
visional government.
Premier Kerehsky is now in Petro-
grad and has taken virtually the en-
tire city, the announcement of the
Finnish bureau says.
The provisional Russian govern
ment referred to in the foregoing is
the government of Premier Kerensky
which the Bolsheviki attempted to
overthrow.
The Finnish telegram bureau says
Moscow is the headquarters of the
provisional government and that Pre-
mIer kerensky has issued orders from
Moscow which have appeared in the
PetrOgrad papers.
The anti Bolsheviki papers of Pc
trograd, as well as the Helsingfors
newspapers, have headlines ANNOUNCE
ing that the Bolsheviki government is
nearing its downfall.
General Kaledines, the Cossack
leader, is said to be dictator of south
ern Russia. The orders of the pro-
visional government are signed by NJ.
Kerensky, General Kaledines and Gen
eral Korniloff.
Defeated BOIsheviki in Battle
The arrival of Premier Kerensky in
Petrograd, accompanied by troops, is
reported by the Russian lega ton at
Stockholm, according to an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen.
NJ Kerensky is said to have defeated
the BolSheViki
According to these advices. which
were received in a cablegram filed at
Stockholm at 4 o'clock yesterday aft
ernoon, Premier Kerensky defeated
the Bolsheviki at Tsarskoe. The Cos
sacks are reported to have DESTROYED
the Red Guard. The telegraph lines
are now in M. Kerensky's hands, the
telegram bureau reports
The majority, or MaximaIist. troops
nave Joined the premier, the CORE
spondent adds.
travellers arriving from Petrograd
the Finnish Telegram bureau reports
say that when they left the capita
there was fighting in the streets be-
tween the Bolsheviki and the popu.
lace. The Petrograd garrison was re-
! ported to be deserving the Bolshevik
and the allied EN- bassies were said IL
nave got into touch with Premier
herensky. The people of Petrogra d
| the travellers said, were turning doWr
the Bolsheviki proclamations ant
| hooting their leaders in the streets.
Third Account of Battle.
For the last three days reports have
/ been coming in from Scandinavian
sources of the defeat of the BoIshey.
M put Ihey nave been cOntradicteC
| BY wireless dispatches from Petrograd
| This is the third time that an accounr
| has been received of a, battle at Tsar.
| skoe-Selo Kerensky victory havins
| been reported twice and a Bolshevik
/ success once.
| The Finnish telegram bureaus ad
vices so closely parallel the dispatche.
| received on Sunday and Monday, az
1 sorting that Premier Kerensky hat
! oVerthroWn the Bolsheviki as to sug.
| gest that they may be a delayed yer.
SION OF the same reports, which were
| contradicted by the announcement re-
ceived yesterday from Petrograd tina
| the Kerenslly forces had been defeat
ed in battle near Tsarskoe-SeIo.