Petrograd found itself on Wednesday week in the hands of
the Anarchists. K Trotsky, as President of the Petrograd Workmen's Council, declared the dissolution of the Provisional Government and the Preliminary Parliament and ordered the arrest of the Ministers. M. Lenin reappeared to ride the whirlwind in this interests of Ger- many and proposed the immediate termination of the war, the transfer of the land to the peasants, and the " settlement of the economic crisis." The moderate Socialists withdrew from the Council, but the Anarchist majority Lammed for itself the powers if a Government. Anarchist troops, supported by the fire of some warships, besieged and took the Winter Palace, which was completely looted by the mob. The Workmen's Council appealed to the armies and to the nation for support, denouncing M. Kerensky. General Komiloff, and General Kaledin as the loaders of the " counter-revolution."
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