Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-02-10
While BoIsheviki Were Over
throwing kerensky Regime
in Petrograd, KremIin Was
Under Siege,
STREETS OF TOWN
FILLED WITH TROOPS
BoIShevik Garrison, When Sur
rounded by Cadets and 10y
al Forces, SurrenderS;
Fighting Fierce,
t.r MORNING ,ou.s., .,.e,.. .s...o w,..,

New York, Feb. 9.--At the TIME OF
! the Bolshevik revolution in Petrograd,
which led to the overthrow Of the
provisional government under Keren-
sky Moscow was the scene of heavy
street fighting in which several thou
sand residents We're reported killed,
many houses destroyed and historic
buildings at the Kremlin riddled with
bullets and shells originally prepared
for use against the Germans. !, No
complete account of the troubles at
first reached the populace, owing TO
the suspension of the newspapers and
the Outro Rossii (Morn of RUSSIA
! of November 81, a copy OF which has
reached this country. first printed Il
summary of events, day by day. from
November to November II, from
which a picture of the revolution in
the second Russian capital can be OBJ
tanned. .'tt
News Started Trouble.
The news Of the Bolshevik revolu-
ton and the overthrow OF the provi-
sional government in Petrograd
reached Moscow November z. Depu-
ties of the workmen and soldiers (the
Bolshevik faction) and representa-
tives of the municipal duna, under
whose banner the anti Bolshevik
forces rallied, each Immediately took
steps to form organization to seize
the helm in Moscow, the representa-
tives Of the two hostile powers ga ath-
ering respectively in the palace of the
governor general and the building of
the municipal council. Both sides felt
distinctly the inevitable approach of
sanguinary encounter.
The Bolshevik element in control
of the council of workmen's and SOL
diers' deputies put through by Il large
majority resolution to appoint
military revolutionary committee to
act in harmony with the new Bolshe-
vik regime in Petrograd. The COM
mittee at once issued an order call
ing upon the Moscow garrison to be
ready for action at any moment and
to obey only orders of the military
revolutionary committee. The rival
body gathered in the duma, though
admittedly lacking physical power to
oppose to the troops of the military
revolutionary committee, organized a
committee of public safety and by
proclamation called upon citizens and
soldiers to obey only this authority
and disregard all mandates and p.gll-
lations emanating from the military
revolutionary committee. Represent
atives of various political parties. pro-
fessional and class corporations and
IN a..
the committee of public safety their
full support and if necessary their
lives.
kremlin IL Occupied.
While this preliminary Interchange
OF proclamations was going on the
BoisheVik forces had adopted a policy
OIL action and had on November ana
succeeded In occupying the Krem-
lin, the post and telegraph offices and
had made an armed attack on the
guard at the municipal duma. The
heal fighting, however, had not Yet
begun. Both sides were gathering their
forces for battle.
The following morning the com
mander of The Moscow military dis
trict, who had sided with the anti
Folshevik committee of public safety.
proclaimed Moscow in state OF siege
ordered all troops true to the -evolu-
ton and to the provisional govern
ment to hurry to the rescue OF Mos
COW, and at o'clock that evening
presented to the military revolution
ary committee an ultimatum ordering
the immediate dissolution of the com
mittee and the withdrawal from the
kremlin of the BoIshevik military
units which had occupied it. This ul-
'lmatum was disregarded by the Bo,-
sheviki. who had during the day loot.
ed the arsenal and gun shops and dis.
tributed the arms among their follow
ers
That night the first blood flowed, a
Bolshevik detachment firing from am
bush upon guards protecting the mu-
ricipal duna building. The civil war
now inaugurated was to last for days
and to cost thousands of lives. Dur
ing the whole night of the 9th, skir-
mishing was going on between Boil
shevik troops and those of the COM
mittee of public safety. Heavy gun
fire was heard in the Arbat region:
the cannonade increased toward morn
ing and continued heavy during the
entire day of the 10th, growing In in
tensity toward noon.
Business Is PaIalyzed.
The streets Of the town were trans
formed into military camps and filled
with armed patrols. barricades were
erected and trenches dug. In various
places. A general strike, proclaimed
by the Boishevlk commfttee. paralyzed
business and economic life, affected