The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-12
Faith in "Three K's" To Re-
store Provisional Govt.
Kerensky, KOrnilOff, KaIedines
Look Like "COmebacks."
MUCH FIGHTING GOING ON
But No Real Battle Apparently
VIII Be Necessary.
Turn Against Lenine Regime in
PetrOgrad and Moscow.

London, Nov. 12.-England's opti-
mism of an ironing out of the Rus
sian situation was centered on impor-
tant events which dispatches this af-
ternoon hinted were occurring at
Moscow, recently wrested from Boil
sheviki control by the provisional
government forces.
Russian diplomats here hoped that
President Rodzianko of the duma,
General Korniloff and General Kale-
dimes, head of the All-Cossack troops,
| now reported meeting at Moscow,
would be able to form a stable gov
ernment.
An authoritative dispatch dated at
Moscow yesterday at 4 p. m. and re-
ceived today declared there was Sc
we're street fighting in progress there
/ and that the provisional troops were
doing we'll
He did not disclose what this Off
cial had reported. Except for brief
great light on events of the day. no
direct press dispatches have been re-
ceived from Russia since Sunday
forenoon.
Government Employees Desert.
1t was then believed fighting was
in progress in or around Petrograd,
kerensky's loyal troops having last
been reported close to the capital.
Most encouraging of the late news
was word from Petrograd that the
railway, post and telegraph employees
all government servants-had
| switched their allegiance from the
| Bolsheviki back to the provisional gov
] ernment and refused to obey Boil
| sheviki censors. This opened the first
| channel of news from Kerensky's side
as to conditions in the capital. Spe-
! cial correspondents for London news
papers in Petrograd sent dispatches
| agreeing that support of the Pacifists
was dissolving.
According to these dispatches there
! has already been some fighting on the
streets of Petrograd. A great deal
has been due to lawless element TAX
| ing advantage of the disorganization
| in the capital to loot and rob.
Buildings Looted.
Numerous government buildings
| including the winter palace have been
stripped by soldiers of decorations
and valuables, the process going on
! openly. Many of these soldiers, load
ed with their booty, have encountered
provisional government troops clos
! ing in on the city and have been shot.
Wireless dispatches from Moscow
declared that the counter revolt
against the Bolesheviki was in prog
ress in Petrograd and that overthrow
of the pacifists was only matter OF
hours. The same source asserted that
the village of Tsarkoe Selo. about
twelve miles from Petrograd, had been
taken by Kerensky troops. Formation
of an ll-Russian organization to res
cue the nation was also reported.
How Premier Escaped.
! Kerensky with General Alexieff
chief of staff of the amry, was re-
| ported to have escaped the Bolshe-
Wiki by lying concealed in the bottom
of an ambulance.
One dispatch from Petrograd de-
tailed that the Russian. fleet which ap-
peared at Petrograd in time to over.
awe the provisional governments de.
tenders and make the Bolshevik
coup certain, came from Helsingfors
on forged instructions. The fact tina,
a German fleet attacked Helsingfor,
last Friday or Saturday is too CLOSELY
related to the removal of Russian ma.
val forces from that station not t.
suggest a direct coordination of Ger
! man activity. in the opinion of OBJ
servers here.