Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-11-12
.LEN|NE UPRISING
AGAINST KERENSKY
NEARS COLLAPSE
Premier, at Head of 100000
Troops, Marching on
Petrograd.
GARRISON AT MOSCOW
GOES BACK TO HIS SIDE
Town of Tsarskoe Selo Already
Reported Captured by
Loyal Forces.
REBELS RETREAT IN DISORDER
All-RuSsia Committee for Saving
Country Reports Failure
of Revolution.
REBELS RETREAT IN DISORDER
All-RuSsia Committee for Saving
Country Reports Failure
OF Revolution.

LONDON. November 11.-Kcrensky
some 100000 loyal troops hc Is report
cd marching on Pc,rograd. In thc
capital. tho support behind the I.e-
ninc-Trotzky hund is fast crumblnS
The Railway Workers Union. which can
tic up all Russia overnight. has de-
serted the Bolshcviki government, and
strike is threatened. Tho Moscow
garrison has gone back to Kcrcuskys
side. The garrison &C Pctrograd, Le-
mines chief weapon. is wavcrinE.
Tsarkoc-Selo. where Nicholas had his
great palace that later became his
prison.
Details OF how kcrcnsky succeeded
in escaping the fate of his fcllov.min-
listers arc as yet lacking, but in it's
rough outline the story could be picced
together tonight from cycwitnesscs,
reports and rumors:
The night that tho Rolahcvilli,
pcrchcd on motor cars bristlng with
provisional government. there came
ia shinG from the direction Of the Tau
ric Palace great gray automobile
ambulance. Its changing bell COM
mandcd ganSwdy everywhere, causing
even the rebels to pause in their wild
venture. to let tho sick man pass.
At top speed the ambulance, raced
through the Nevsky rrospckt and dis
appeared in the darkness.
ESCAPES FROM CAPITAL.
IN AUTO-AMBULANCE
1t was manifnstly a hurry call a race
for life. Some Of the Bolsheviki chief
tainS voiced dispicasurc. II seemed an
i'll omen. Had those who cast a curl
Gus glance behind them been able to
penetrate the heavy curtains that COW
cred the glass part of the ambulance
doo:, they would have only seen a
great white sheet covering an ap-
parcntly lifcless form.
Under that sheet lay Alexander +.
Kercnsky. lie was indeed racing for
life; not so much his own, as for that
OF Russia. That was Wednesday
night.
Whittier the ambulance took him is
not known. The fact is that day or
two later he appeared at general head
loyal troops behind him.
Whether he had conferences with
korniloff or Iialedinc, or with BOTH
is also uncertain But there is strong
report that he did. and that the three
ks" then and there formed sacred
alliance with the vow to save Rus
sia from her foes. at home and at the
front.
Meanwhile the Bolshcvki hold or
the capital and the rest OF Russia is
fast breaking 10 pieces. Premier
Lcninc seems to have been tried and
found wanting by his countrymen in
a short and convincing test. What
Will happen TO nim aud to TrotZky,
the former New York East Side news
paper reporter, once the workers. SOL
diers and peasants become convinced
that these two men attempted to de-
liver Russia into the hands OF their
enemy is y thought that makes those
who know The Russians shuddcr.
EXpECTED TO INSTITUTE
RULE OF IRON HAND
II Kerensky succeeds in recaptur-
ing control it is believed he will in
stitute the rule of the iron hand which
he so often threatened. but never en-.
pioyed. His experience at the hands
OF those whom he time and again
saved from the wrath of their coun-
lrymon is believed to have taught him
bitter. lesson.
The first thing that the pro-Keren-
sky troops did when they took Tsarskos
Sc!o was 10 seize the chief wireless
station. In Pctrograd. also the Bol-
:hcvi<i monopoly of outgoing news is
losing. This was indicated by a dis
patch from the capital that Kercnsky
has gathered an army OF fully 100000
men. Nor would the Lenino censor
ship have allowed TO pass the message.
received by tire Weekly Dispatch. thar
the hallway Workers Union has boIted.
kerensl<y. according 10 another dis.
patch is now in communication with
loyal troops in rctr SSrad. Street
lighting is reported TO be going on
in the capital.
Another force loyal to the provisional
government is said to be marching on
Petrograd from Finland. This may
spell danger rather than hope. how