The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-02-10

decision regarding recognition Of the
new regime was taken and it was sta
led that special instructions form the
respective governments would be nee
ce5s2ry, as there was now no one es-
tablished government in the country.
Leon Trotshy 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 amaze
ment, that documents relating to- ar
fragments made during the war were
incorporated in the protocols of the
Interallied Conferences and were not
available. il. PI2ssIograd. ID.
In view of the overthrow of the
Provisional Government and the diss0-
luton of the temporary Council of the
Russian Republic, the Municipal Coun-
Gil became center of political life.
BY neon the Hobbies of the Municipal
Council building were filled with rep
resentatives Of all democratic organic
atiCns, united to protest against the
seizure of by the Bolshevilli leaders
Demands were made for guarantees
for the salty and if possible the re
lease of the members of the Women's
Battalion.
November 10: The extraordinary ses
sion of the Municipal Council was
most stormy, owing to a proposal to
eXpel the Bolshevik members Of the
Great excitement was caused by re-
ports OF the arrest. Of five members
OF the Council. sent as emissaries to
the army i'll an attempt to prevent
bloodshed. and by street fighting start
ed near the building of the Council.
A Bolshevik woman representative
tried to explain the irritation of the
soldiers and sailors against the coun-
ell, which had become the center of
the struggle against the Bolshevilz
authority. A tremendous uproar STRAIT
cd when reports came in that a little
girl had been killed and women in
iured in the fighting, in the midst of
| which the Cadet A. L. Shringaroff
tSlnce killed in the January troubIes)
arose and demanded the immediate
release of all the arrested ministers
and declared that the chiefs of the
Rolshevik are responsible for this frat
cidal war.
"Out of here" cried Shingaroff TO the
BoisheViki representatives in the Coun-
Gil, you are murderers and traitors TO
the country" Representatives of the
public Joined in the tumult with shouts
OF Out of here, looters, murderers."
With great difficulty riot was aviod
ed, the Council finally adopting a resc-
luton demanding the release of the
ministers.
The following day, Nov II, was al
SO day of complete uncertainty. The
telephone system was still working
thanks to the self-sacrifcing work of
the telephone girls, some of whom had
been on duty "a hours without relief
in spite of the bombardment of the ex-
change building, but communications
were very poor, giving an opening for
the most sensational rumors to circulat
among the population. Kerensky with
an army was reported approaching the
Warsaw railway station and about to
lombard that building with heavy
guns. Another set of rumors had the
destroyers in the river at the point of
opening fire across the city against
the Kerensky forces. Municipal hos
pitfalls were reported full of wounded
from the steet combats. Such rumors
drove the population from the streets
III, II, ...n.., !.