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Show MOSCOW FIGHTING IS DESCRIBED BY LONDON JOURNALIST LONDON, Nov. 10. The fighting in Moscow between the Bolshevik! and troops of the provisional government has heen far more scrioue than anything that has occurred In I 'etrograd, according' accord-ing' to specinl dispatches received here from the Russian capital. The Petrograd correspondent of the Dally Telegraph savs he talked with n. member of the Moscow city council who came to Pet-rograd Pet-rograd to appeal for help. Ho was besieged be-sieged for four days in the council building, from which he made his way to the railroad station through the Bol-sheviki Bol-sheviki lines. He said the real fighting began on November- 10, when the Bolshevik! Bol-shevik! force seized the Kremlin. They were expelled by a party of cadets, who, in their turn, were killed by the Bolshe-viki. Bolshe-viki. The revolutionists later were again driven from the Kremlin. From November 12 onward, the dispatch adds, the councilman reported that the military operations were concentrated in the center of the city. The government force consisted of about 30fl0 military cadets. Of the 100,000 soldiers forming the Moscow garrison not more than 15,-ooo 15,-ooo supported the Bolshevik!. Mont of the regiments remained in their barracks, but thousands of soldiers escaped irom Moscow by train and on foot. The Bolshevik) Bol-shevik) red guard in Moscow was composed com-posed mostly of boys from 12 to IS years old. Tt had about fifteen field guna, with which the Kremlin was bombarded. Three, thousand persons, chiefly members mem-bers of the peaceful population, had been killed or wounded up to Wednesday, the councilman said, and as there was no means of collecting the bodies they lay for days where they had fallen. There had been continued firing in many parts of the city from windows find, roofs and the population was terrorized and afraid to move. It was impossible to get food supplies to the center of the city. The National hotel, where there were many British and French visitors, was under fire for several days and the upper up-per part of the hotel was destroyed by a shell. On Tuesday shells began to fall on the city hall, where the committee on public safety was sitting, and the committee com-mittee decided to move to the Kremlin. The pavement was dug up and a trench made to insure a safe passage. When the councilman left Moscow the Kremlin was well defended by machine puns manned hy cadets and there was an abundant supply of ammunition and food. A violent bombardment was concentrated con-centrated last Wednesday, the day the councilman left Moscow. On Wednesday the cathedral of the Assumption within the Kremlin, with the famous tower of Ivan Veliky, was destroyed de-stroyed and the church of St. Basil caught fire. This wanton destruction of national shrines, the correspondent says, shrines which even Napoleon spared, seems to have stimulated both sides to conclude peace. |