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Show P ARMY THE FED ' T Vanguard Said to Be Close to Gatchina; Premier Pre-mier Kerensky Reported Report-ed to Be Returning With This Force; Bol-sheviki Bol-sheviki Remain in Military Mili-tary Control of Petro-grad. Petro-grad. AMERICAN COLONY READY TO LEAVE Berlin Tageblatt Declares De-clares Kerensky and Lenine Have Effected a Compromise Upon Terms Favorable to : the Latter; Finnish Diet to Proclaim Republic. Re-public. v f LONDON, Nor. 19. The Ameri- can embassy at Pctrograd,' according accord-ing to a Eeuter dispatch, has re-(X'josted re-(X'josted that a trim be provided to , convey two hundred members of the American colony in Petrogiad to Harbin. LONDON, Nov. 18 The r Berlin Tageblatt declares that Premier 1 Kerensky and Nikolai Lenine, leader of the Bolshevik! in Petro- grad, have effected a compromise essentially favorable to Lenine, the I Exchanges Telegraph correspondent at Copenhagen reports FBTROGRAD. Nov. 18, 2:30 p. ni. Ke-ports Ke-ports of a new army, composed of various elements from the front and the van- ' jnjorr of which Is said to be close to Oatr-hina, have sent a new thrill through the city. Jf tho reports are to bo credited, cred-ited, the aim of tho new foroe Is to release re-lease the city from the control of the Bolshevlkl. It is commanded by Staff Captain Pavioff of the Social-Democratic workmons' P'irly, and already has had brush r with the defending outposts of the Bolshevlkl army. j i Ac-cordins? to some versions, M. Kcr- 1 1 ensky Is returning with the army, ytill other rcrorts tell of an armored train ap- i proachins; from the direction of Moscow. All tho reports nre impossible of confirmation. confir-mation. A report of the inter-frontal congress for the supply of the armies, published to- day, declares the lnnbilily of tho con-I rfcss furthci' to carry on Lite burden laid upon It by the general army committee, and that unless the present situation is j clnrifled it. will give up the task and not be responsible for consequences. BOLSHEVIKI IN FULL CONTROL L OF PETROGRAD i irAPARANDA. Sweden. Saturday. Xnv. ; 17. The Rolshcviki were still In complete military control of Potrograd when a correspond cor-respond ent of tho Assciated Press left the city Thursday. At that, time Pcl.ru-grad Pcl.ru-grad was completely iisolated from the reel, of Russia by a railway and telegraph strike, called as a protest against the Bolabevlkl government. l:P to Thursday morning no definite suoceca liad met efforts to organize nn ail-Soi-iallst. cabinet, in which neither former for-mer Pi'emler Kerensky nor Lenine would be included. M. Tchernoff. the Socialist ex -minister of agriculture, was mentioned us tho probable premier of the cabinet. Though there have been many rumors of Polshevikt outrages and .cruolt ies, the 1 truth appears to b- that there has been 1 no marked violent except Hsainst tlie military cadets, a score of whom were I Billed. There had been no fighting in j- Fetrograd since Sunday. Rej)oriK from Kiev and other large el ties ' Indira te that a new organized rc- !' pittance aga.lnst the Bolhcvtki is helns prepared. I.Iran d Pnke Michael Aixandrnvit,l). the younger bnither of the former em-( em-( . peror. is said to have been at (.la t china ' with Kerensky. f RUSSO-SWEDISH i FRONTIER CLOSED BY MAXIMALISTS I LONDOX, Nov. IS. The Msjilnialist V cominissioners liae closed the Rnsso-i Rnsso-i nedl;;h frontier at Tornea, according to F'-pe F'etrofrrad correspondent of Reiner's ' T,im!tcd. who adds that no one Is allowed to pais without special a.uthorixatlon i (Continued cn Page Two.) I II FIEUl II RUSSIA; (Continued from Page One.) I from fhe i m i i t .'i r' revolutionary enminii.-1 enminii.-1 tee. ouiinuifiK T h e .1 1 1; ., 1 h smvh: Host I lit have (-a-i- in .Moscow. Term vif-rc. signed wnerelv,- :ne ?o-! ?o-! illd white guanl ) rr-1 id e rs I'M I aYmH a nd he .-omml r tee on public yafef y dlssoh eg. i The .Maximalist conditions to con- ; sentlng to i composite oelalist. j fe'ovr anient include control of the I troopa in the Pen osrad and Moscow I districts arid the systematic, arming of workmen throughout i:iit.ua. It is reported tha t roup." : mount-hig mount-hig to an army corps under orders of the armv cjmml 1 1 et-s have reached I.uku en rout to P- trograd to end civil war and the dictatorship of the Maximalists. The I kraine assembly has d-i hired the I ride pernle nee of (he I'ki-Hlne. It is prated that the Cossacks supporting sup-porting Premier Kerensky only num-I num-I be rod ydO. |