HOW KERENSKY ESCAPED

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 115, 12 November 1917, Page 8

HOW KERENSKY ESCAPED

EXCITING NIGHT JOURNEY BATTLE IN THE STREETS OP PETROGRAD LATE WAR MINISTER A LENINIST. (UNITED PRES3 ASSOCIATION.-COPTRIGHT.) (ADSTRAUAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received November 12, lpm.) STOCKHOLM, 11th'November. Reports from Haparanda state that M. Kerensky has an army of over 200,000 men devoted to his cause. It will probably be unnecessary for it to march to Petrograd. The latest news indicates that a veritable battle was fought in the streets of the capital, the Cossacks and Minimalist troops having placed the Leninist troops in a, difficult position.

Details of M Kerensky's flight show that he learned that Gen. Verkhovsky .(Minister..of War) had been conferring with Lenin and Trotzky, and that a ioJehevik coup d'etat was being contemplated, aiming to create Gen. Verkhovsky Uenerahssimo arid Dictator. M. Kerensky ordered Gen. Verkhovsky to leave Petrograd. The Jatter secretly returned on the 6th. iNovember, and completed the plot againsv; Kerensky. The.Premier discovered secret meeting being held in the barracks, and also the defection of the gunners in the fortress of Peter and Paul and of the crew of the cruiser -Aurora. Seeing that resistance was impossible owing to the small numbers of the loyal ??? S 'z } L Keren sky fled on the night ot the 6th, hidden on a motor ambulance. It is understood that ho was accompanied by M.-'Teretschenko and General Alexieff. Maximalist patrols three times stopped the vehicle, without discovering M. Kerensky.

[Haparanda, which has figured several times recently as a .clearing-house for news for Russia via Scandinavia, is a small town on the northern shore of the Gulf of Bothnia. It is just west of -the K-usso-Swedish frontier, and is about five miles from the larger Russian town of r ? rnea - Ifc was .only founded .in 1812, when Tornea was ceded by SwedeA to Russia.]