FRENZIED HOSTILITIES.

Northern Advocate, 14 November 1917, Page 3

FRENZIED HOSTILITIES.

MESSAGES OF LOYALTY

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association,

(Press Assn. —Reed. 11.15 p.m.)

LONDON, November 13,

The "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent, summarising the position on Monday says: "The Provisional Government lacks sufficient forces to maintain office, and the Bolsheviki lack sufficient to exert authority. Both sides are awaiting reinforcements. The Bolsheviki on Sunday besieged and captured four military training schools and the. Telephone Exchange. The Bolsheviki previously armed thousands of young, undisciplined, factory workers, forming the so-call-ed Red Guards, capable of any atrocities. They massacred hatches of Captured Cadets with the utmost brutality. Three Cadets were trampled to death during the battle at the Telephone Exchange and their bodies left in the street. The crowds captured* one of the schools where the defenders had used all their ammunition and shouted, "Chop them up!" Frenzied sailors tore Cadets to pieces. Rifle fire was heard everywhere in the city. An armoured car containing an inexperienced Bolsheviki crew plunged headlong into the river. Field guns were used against the Cadets, who were .defending the place for seven hours. When a larger gun broke the walls the survivors narrowly escaped lynching, and many of them were thrown into the river. There were eight hundred casualties on Sunday and the situation is becoming worse. Street fighting will inevitably increase.

"M. Kerensky, with troops and artillery, is reported 1 to have reached the outskirts of the city. Kerensky troops are reported upon the Finland railway; thus the troops are approach, ing the capital from two sides."

A Stockholm message states that A!. Kerensky's proclamation was issued at Gatchina, where the Bolsheviki engaged in battle with troops from the front, great bloodshed ending in the defeat of the Bolsheviki.

A Russian troop on the West front have sent a message of loyalty.to M. Kerensky.