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Show RUSSIA'S RED RULE CRUMBLING: KEREN SKY'S FORCES VICTORIO US MOSCOW IS mm er mm Cossacks Join Minimalists Minima-lists in Petrograd and Defeat Maximalists; New Government Cuts Railway to Hold Back Kerensky's Men Marching March-ing on Capital. GENERAL ALEXIEFF WITH THE PREMIER All-Russian Committee Formed to Save the Country From Chaos ; Overthrow of the Radicals Radi-cals Believed Matter of Only a Few Hours. By International News Service. LONDOX, Nov. 11. Kerensky is hack tn the ring. At the head of some 2:Q.- 000 loyal troops he Is reported marching on Petrograd. In the capital the support behind the Ienino-Tratzi-y bund Is fast crumbling. The railway workers' union, which en tie up all Russia overnight, has deserted the Bolsheviki government and a strike is threatened. The Moscow gin ison has gone back to Kerensky "s side. The garrison of Petrograd, Lenine's chir--; weapon. t wavering. Troops bacl;-liiir bacl;-liiir Kerensky have ta ken Tsarskoe-Seio, where Nicholas had his sreat Ciat later Pe'an".e his prison. Details of how Kerensky succeeded in ' escaping the fate of his fellow ministers, are as yet lack ins:, hut in its roujrh outline the story could be pieced together tonight to-night from eye-witnesses reports and rumors. ru-mors. Escape of Kerensky. The night that the Bo;siieviki. perched on motor cars, bristling wit h machine guns, tore loose acai nst t;'e prunional goverrtrcent. there came d;Ls;:ing from th.e cihi'-tion of the Ta.TLrir- pa1 ace a great grey anto'r.ohile amtmLuioe. Its clansing bed commar.ded gangway everywhere, cans ma: ev en the rebels to pause in their wild ven-ti::e. ven-ti::e. to let the '"sick man' pass. At top sriee.l the smbtila ne raced through the Nesky Frospe-t and disappeared in the daikness. It was manifestly a hurry eJl. a tace for life. Pome of the Bolsheviki chieftains voiced displeasure. It see-in ed an ill omen. Had those who cast a curious cu-rious glance behind them been able to penetrate the heavy curtains that covered the glass parti t inn door, they iou!d have seen only a great white sheet covering an apparently lifeless form, t'nder that sheet lay Alexander Kco-ioreviteh Kerensky. Keren-sky. 1 Jo was Indeed racing for l'fe not so nut h his own a? for tli.it of R'jFsia. That was Wencs'lav inch!. Destination Unknown. Wither the ambidance took i:m s not k no w n. The fact is ( hat a da y or t w o 1 ter he ?prea--d at general headquarters headquar-ters and rallied a strong force of loal trwps N-hiud him. Whether he had conferences wirh Korni-ioft Korni-ioft or Ka!ei!!:ie. or with b'h. is also un-certm. un-certm. Put there is a strong report Lhat he did. and tli.it the three "K'5" then ajwt the-e formed a s.mmt 1 alh in -e with the vow in s.i . e Ku.- pia ftvm her foes, at "nn-ne ;1Ti.-i ;i t th- Trent . M.'niu!h t; FlsiirrKi hold on rhe catitat ret of liussia is fast hreaUms: to pe-s Vv- m-er'1 lenine vr.-ms L" ' ''.e heei. tfn,l .ml fp'md w,nt-in w,nt-in I v hi -! hi t : men in a sort and -itui iv-mc t .-s' . Wha t will hanen to hi'M and f" T'-vc-A-. ihe form.-r Nw York .it side ncusnapi- lei'-r'e'-. one th worker!. s-.! J.'.ers .inl i'msj nts become com ini-'-J that thf?' twrv nen t tempted to ilellver Russia in t o r he ha nds of hr -nrnv,P-. j. iIiop-' t that m.kes tnose v ho hji'iw the R::ss..ins t-h.ud'Ier. Iron Rule Predicted. If Krensk c Micccds in re ca nt u-fr g 'Mml it is believed he will institute the rule or the iron hand whi-h he So pt'te.M t'r-e. tcred. hut ne er emploi ed. H's experience t the i'ands of th'-v-e whom h.-. ti'ne and ns-ain paved from the wraih of (Contlnned on Para Twix MOSCOW DETll BY i LOYALiST SDLDIE!iS (Continued from Page One.) j 1 1 t :r eountr'men is believed to ha e j j taucrhi him a bitter lesson. The first tiling that th pro-Korensky , I troops di.1 when they took Tsa.rskoe-Seio as 10 seize the -hief wireless station. I In Petroprad also." the Rolshevikl monopoly ! o: outpoina news is looisinsr. This whs indk-:itei iy a dispatch from f'le capital ' t hat Kt-reusky lias gathered an army oi '' J'io.o.Vi nien. Nor would the l.enine i-en- ' sorshlp have allowed to pass the message i reeeived by the Weekly Dispatch that the railway workers' union has bolted. Kerensky. aet'ordina to anot her dispatch, j is now in comniuni-ition with loyal troops j in Petrojrrad. Street fighting is reported ; to be point," on in t he capital. j Another force loyal to the provisional Ruvernnient is said to be marching- on JVtrocrad from Finland. This may spell ' danger ratiier than hope, however, for the Germans are reported to have taken Hel-sing-sfors, the Finnish capital. |