Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-11-20 | Page 3 | No Central Head of Government at Petrograd

NO CENTRAL HEAD OF GOVERNMENT ! AT PETROGRAD WASHINGTON, Nov. 19. Ambassador j Krancis at Petrograd reported to the state department, in a message dated last Kriday and received today, that he had recommended that all unattached American Amer-ican women and American men accompanied accom-panied by women and children leave the city. Arrangements had been made for them to travel on the ..Trans-Siberian railroad rail-road in two special coaches. The am- bassanor reported conditions in the Ens- I sian capital chaotic, but fairly .quiet, j There was no central head of government ' and tlie embassy dpalt directly with the superintendent of passenger ycr ice in arranging for the removal of the Americans. Amer-icans. The departments of government cither were rinsed or being operated without their chiefs. Mr. FYancis said he feared no damage to tlie embassy, but condit ions were so unstable that he deemed it best to get tlie Americans out if possible. Information Informa-tion at the state department indicates : tha t there are in Petrograd about 200 Americans. ! A report from Moscow, sent hy Amer- ; lean Conwnl General Sommers, said all , Americans were safe. The Maximalists, he reported, had taken over the direction nf i he government after a week of bard Jigluing. Basing their opinion on the statement of I,enine that the success of the Bolsheviki Bolshe-viki was dependent on a world-wide revolutionary revo-lutionary movement by soldiers and workmen, work-men, officials at the Russian embassy today to-day predicted that the followers of the Kerensky government would win either through a military victory or through the evident incapacity of the Bolsheviki to make good their promises to their followers. fol-lowers. No late news has been received at the embassy, but officials declared that the mention of Captain Pavloff as the commander com-mander of troops opposing the Bolsheviki was an encouraging sign. Captain Pavloff is said to be of the staff of the Social-Democratic Social-Democratic workmen's party, and the opinion was expressed that this means that one of the strongest factions of the opposition had gone over to the moderates.