The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-08

behind the soldiers at the loOting and
went around with bags collecting
what struck their fancies. In the
Round Hall of the Press Bureau all
the papers had been torn to bits. In
one room heavy guns had been set up.
Windows were pierced with bullets.
1t was a nightmare of destruction"
The eighth of November, the day
following the siege, passed quietly, the
street cars were running everywhere,
the number of patrols had decreased
and absolute order prevailed. The
municipal Council had passed reso-
luton, instructing the population to
defend itself against looting, by use
of arms if necessary, and though the
Bolshevik authorities opposed this Or
der, the formation of house commit
tees of self-defense went steadily for
ward
/ The representatives of the Allied
Powers held long conferences but no
decision regarding recognition of the
new regime was taken and it was
stated that special instructions from
the respective governments would be
necessary, as there was no one estab-
llshed government in the country.
Leon Trotsky had visited the foreign
Office, announced himself as the For
eign Minister of the new government
and asked for the Secret Treaties of
the Allies" He was told, to- his
amazement, that documents relating
to arrangements made during the war
were incorporated in the protocols of
the Interalled Conferences and were
not available in Petrograd.
November Gin view of the over
throw of the Provision Government
|, and the dissolution of the temporary
, Council Of the Russian Republic, the
Municipal Council became a centre OF
, political life. BY noon the lobbies OF
the Municipal Council building were
, filed with representatives of all demo
cratic organizations, united to protest
, against the seizure of power by the
Bolshevik leaders. Demands were
: made for guarantees for the safety
and if possible the release of the
members of the Women's Battalion.
November 1O.-The extraordinary
session Of the Municipal Council was
most stormy, owing to a proposal tt
expel the Bolshevik members of the
, Council. Great excitement was
> caused by reports of the arrest of five
members of the Council, sent as ennis
saries to the army in an attempt tt
. prevent bloodshed, and by street-fight
, ing started near the building of the
Council. A Boleshevik woman repre-
sentative tried to explain the irrita
> ton of the soldiers and sailors against
the Council, which had become the
centre of the struggle against the Boil
: shevik authority. A tremendous up
/ roar began when reports came in tha
a little girl had been killed and WON
en- injured in the fighting, in the mids
] of which the Cadet A. |. Shringarof
! (since killed in the January troubles)
Z arose and demanded the immediate
release of all the arrested ministers
I and declared that the chiefs of the
Bolshevik are responsible for this fra
tricidal war.
"Out of here" cried Shingaroff t.
] the Bolshevik representatives in tn,
4 Council, you are murderers and trait
ors to the country" Representative.
of the public joined in the tumult will
shouts of "Out of here, hooters, muir
derers!"
With great difficulty a riot wa!
l avoided, the Council finally adoptins