PROSPECTS AT MOSCOW

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 114, 10 November 1917, Page 7

PROSPECTS AT MOSCOW

LOYALISTS MAY RALLY THERE ' KERENSKY AND THE COSSACKS (Received November 10, 11 a.m.) J •-. • . _, ■»■■„'■■• '■•'AMSTERDAM, 9th November. A German message from Petrograd states that, the troops in; the Russian Northern Army have joined the Maximalists, arid are marching to Petrograd. * 'm.'!', ■"',■■. LONDON, Bth November.' As the telegraphs, are in the hands of the Maximalists, news from Petrograd must he taken with reserve. News received :in London from an independent source indicates that M. Kerensky was aware of LeninVintention/ and had arranged for the transfer of the Government to, Moscow It is believedthat M Kerensky will endeavour to rally the moderate Cossacks and such troops.as have not been corrupted by the extremists. ■ ■ ' - . (AVSTBALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) ™ - j., , '■„' /' ■ '•■,' PETROGRAD, Bth November, lne Petrograd coup d etafc was accomplished at five o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. Three Cossack regiments quartered in Petrograd refused to'march against the Maximahsts, but declared their intention of maintaining order . uf^\ ■ ys whereabouts is unknown. The- hope is expressed that he lias teached Mosco^ where the loyalists are certain 'to attempt to constitute a Government if the control of Petrograd should not be regained; NO BLOODSHED SO FAR . (bbcteb's tkegbam.) ■■'.'•■• r, . , , „■"'■' LONDON, 9th November. « Reuters correspondent, cabling on 7th November, says that up to the presftuatio" k obsbur" n° blOOaSh?d' °"ly * few minor st«et collisions, The ■ WINTER PALACE OCCUPIED „.,,.,., . PETROGRAD, 9th November. The^Maximalists have occupied the Winte^ Palace, and also the premises Ca^t 6 T S f The.former was defended by the Women's BattaUori surre f nt er.ed after some shots were fired from the cruiser Aurora .and the fortress of Peter and Paul on the opposite bank o{ the Neva as well as are Irom the machine guns m the armoured cars of the Red Guards. KERENSKY'S ARREST ORDERED „- „ ■ . ,'. -.-.'■'■• PETROGRAD, Bth November. The Congress of Soldiers and; the Peasants' Congress of All Russia in a proclamation, delegates to the provincial branches the power to relieve the Government commissaries of all duties, and orders the release of the arrested members of the/ agricultural committees and the arrest of the commissaries who arrested, them The proclamation, also abolishes the death penalty, re-estab-lishes the freedom of political propaganda, orders the release of soldiers arrestX i° r o ai ffSe£- P°^! cal, c r nme => a.nd, the.arrest of the ex-Ministers, Terestchenko, Konovaloff, Kischkm, Malantovitch, Nikitin, and others. The military are en! o"^glSo^ and ln COmpl! City will be treated