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Foreign Relations of the United States : 1918 The November Revolution
The Minister in Sweden (Morris) to the Secretary of State

File No. 861.00/651

The Minister in Sweden (Morris) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

STOCKHOLM, November 18, 1917, 5 p.m.

[Received November 13, 3.15 a.m.]

977. I have been able to get into telephone communication with Tornea and I am informed that according to report current there Kerensky is in control of Russian telegraphs; that telegrams from southern Russia report country is controlled by Cossacks working under Kerensky; that the Bolshevik troops badly beaten at Tsarskoe Selo and retired to Petrograd where they are quartered in certain section of the city; that the Allied missions in Petrograd are now in connection with Kerensky who has announced Government centers at Moscow, Novocherkassk; that Generals Kornilov and Kaledin have called upon every one to oppose Bolsheviks. According to passengers arriving at Tornea to-day from Petrograd, newspapers are reappearing in Petrograd all announcing defeat of Bolsheviks; that there has been considerable fighting on Nevski Prospekt.

MORRIS

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