COUNCILS & PROCLAMATIONS
A BLOODLESS DEPOSITION SOLDIERS TO WATCH THE OFFICERS. (AOSTRAUAH-NEW ZEALAND CABLI AISOCIATION.) (Received November 9, 1 p.m.) . LONDON, Bth November. Admiralty, pe r Wireless Press—A Russian official report states : A proclamation has been issued by the Army •Committees and the Soviet (Council) 6i bokhers Deputies, announcing that the garrison -and proletariat of Petrograd have deposed Kerensky'e Government, which rose against the people's governa •«. ? eP°sltion was accomplished without bloodshed. The Petrograd boyiet and Workmens and Soldiers' deputies welcomes the change, and proclaims the authority of the Military Revolutionary Committee until the creation of a Government of. Soviets. Soldiers are ordered by the proclamation to watch the conduct of officers; and those who do not immediately and openly join the accomplished revolution must be arrested as enemies. The national revolutionary army must not permit uncertain military detachments to go to I etrograd from the front, and must oppose such motions without mercy. The proclamation concludes: "The soldiers are for peace, bread, land, the people, and the power of the people "
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 113, 9 November 1917, Page 8
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