After an interval of silence, Russia is again in communication
with the outer world. The Anarchists control Petrograd and Moscow, and have defeated the scanty forces gathered by H. Kerensky in an attempt to regain the capital. IL Kerensky has disappeared. General Kaledin, at the head of a Cossack army, is said to have set up a military Government in the mining districts of the Don Valley. The Cossacks are said also to have suppressed the Anarchists at Kieff. The Socialists, according to Dr. Williams, the Daily Chronicle's correspondent, fear to oppose the Anarchists but refuse to work with them. The Anarchists are a small and illiterate minority, who cannot form a durable Government. They have decreed the confiscation of all houses and factories and of all landed estates. Meanwhile the cities are threatened with famine during the winter. After this outburst of anarchy Russia will begin to set her house in order, but for the time being she has ceased to-count as elector in the war.
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