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Show PETROGRAD QUIET UP TO WEDNESDAY, SAYS TRAVELER STOCKHOLM. Nov. 1 V Petrograd was quiet up- to Wednesday evening, according accord-ing to advices from wha t are regarded here as reliable sources. The railway employees were refusing .to transport i troops for either faction and the food j situation in the capital was becoming I serious. 1 Thre Is little definite news from the : Drovinces. but an apparently reliable re-j re-j port said that General Kaledines was as-i as-i semhling a considerable force of Cossacks Cos-sacks There tas been hard fighting at Moscow, Mos-cow, where the only resistance to the Leninites came from the military cadets and the university students. It Is feared that Kremlin has been damaged by the bombardment a,,d that the street fighting fight-ing was more severe than In Petrograd. It is stated that efforts sre st ill being be-ing made, but wit h what prospects of success is unknown, to form an exclusively exclu-sively Socialist government. M. Tcher-noff, Tcher-noff, who is believed to bo with Premier Kerensky. has been suggested among presidential posslbtll t ies. The correspondent talked with an American business man, who left Petrograd Pet-rograd Wednesday. Ho reports that no foreigners in the city had been molested and thnt Nikolai Lenine said to a delegation dele-gation of foreign diplomats, who called ! on him at the Smolny institute: , ; j "Just ructions have been given to treat ' foreigners with all consideration. They ! are guests of the republic,' I The American traveler characterized j Lenine as a man desiring pe-aie. but said tha t Leon Trotzky was using violent ; language and threatening all his oppo- nents with death. Comparatively little ' looting was reported. |