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Show ffllilllKRS: Former Ministers of Russ Pro-! visional Government in St. j Peter and St. Paul. I ARREST MANY OTHERS Few Casualties Reported in Winter Palace Battle Kerensky Ker-ensky Ran Away. PETROGRAD, Thursday, Nov. S. Confirmation was obtained tonight that the former ministers of the provisional provision-al government who were arrested by. the military revolutionary committee have been incarcerated in the fortress of SL Peter and St. Paul. Tho cabinet ministers placed under arrest were A. I. Konovaloff, minister) 'of-lrado and industry; M. Kishkin, minister min-ister of public welfare; M. I. Terestch-onko, Terestch-onko, minister of foreign affairs; M. Malyontovitch, minister of justice, and M. Nikitin. minister of the interior. The confirmation was given by the commissioner In command of the for- tress who received the Associated Press correspondent and personally ox-' plained to him the details regarding' the confinement of the ministers. I The cabinet members, he said, were all arrested at the Winter Palace aft-, er its surrender early this morning. They were taken to the fortress, where they were placed in solitary confinement confine-ment but are courteously treated. List of Arrests. He gave a list of those taken into custody as follows: M. Maslov. minister of agriculture; M. I. Terestchenko, minister of foreign affairs; M. Nikitin, minister of the In-J terlor; M. Liverevsky, minister of ways and communications; M. Bernat-sky, Bernat-sky, minister of finance; M. Smirnoff, suite controller;. M. Malyahtovltch, minister of justice; M. Gusdovoff, minister min-ister of labor; I. N. Konovaloff, minister min-ister of trade and industries; Admiral Verdervski, minister of Marine; M. Kishkin, minister ot public welfare; M. Nanlkovsky, who succeeded General Gen-eral Verkhovski as minister of war; M. Kartashcff, minister of religion, and M. Tretyakoff, president of the Ecumenical Ecu-menical council. Many Others Incarcerated. In addition, chief of staff BagratunI and many of his subordinates were arrested. ar-rested. The commissioner said he did not know the whereabouts of Premier Kerensky Ker-ensky who "had run away." Few Casualties Reported. It is impossible at this hour to ascertain as-certain what the casualties were in the Winter Palace battle, nlthough they are reported not to have been many. The fighting proceeded with the rival forces alternately In possession of huge piles of wood stored in the plaza, a part of the city's winter fuel sup-Ply. sup-Ply. The glare of an arc light Illumined the positions of the forces in the plaza while tho rest of the city was in almost al-most total darkness, this condition increasing in-creasing the visibility of the flashes from tho guns of tho cruisers of the horizon which camo warning of the Bpeedy bursting of shells. Tho palace which already had been stripped of most of Its historic art objects, was completely denuded this afternoon of its tapestries and paintings. paint-ings. This occurred while the provisional provi-sional government was still in control of tho palace. The art treasures were taken to places of its selection. The correspondent, who was with a party of reserve soldiers' and workmen's work-men's forces a short distance from the great archway leading Into thep laza, did not see any of tho shells take effect ef-fect upon tho palace. In it, as also in the ndmiralty and foreign oflice buildings on the other side of the square, lights were still shining out of tho windows at midnight. Occasional crashes as if of falling walls, Indicated that perhaps other structures had been hit. Tho populace for tho most part re-; malnod indoors. A few of the curious j peered around the corners while thousands thou-sands of the Maximalist troops and' sailors from Kronstadt' gathered around the fuel piles at advantageous spots awaiting their turn in the battle. bat-tle. Leon Trotzky, president of the cxc-( cutive committee of the Pt trograd i council of soldiers' and workmen's I delegates, explained that the arrest of certain members of the Kerensky gov- j ernment was not an act of vengeance 1 or political repression. He said all , the members of the late government' would be tried for complicity in the Korniloff movement. I The political parties to which the! Socialist ministers belong have dc-j cided to turn over ail the ministers, Socialists as well as others, for trial, j In the meanwhile they aro being held under domiciliary arrest. |