“KERENSKI DEFEATED.”

Yesterday’s reports concerning the situation in Russia were bewilderingly confused, contradictory, and untrustworthy. On the one hand, the Leninites, through the mouth of one Colonel Mouravieff, who appears to be in command of the Bolshevik rebel army, and of Trotsky (whose real name is Braunstein), the “Foreign Minister” in Lenin’s “Cabinet,” claim to have defeated the forces of Kerenski after a fierce battle near Tsarskoe Selo. A certain degree of verisimilitude is lent to this assertion by the evident fact that the rebels are once more able to communicate with the outside world by means of wireless – presumably the Krasnoe installation, which on Sunday was in the hands of the Provisional Government. On the other hand, telegrams received in Scandinavia from Petrograd, and published in yesterday’s papers at Stockholm and Copenhagen, were practically unanimous in declaring that the Bolsheviks had been defeated after conflicts involving great bloodshed in the streets of the capital itself. The Russian Legation at Copenhagen is stated to have received a telegram continuing the defeat of the Bolsheviks near Tsarskoe, and saying that Kerenski is now “master of Petrograd.” None of these messages appears to be of later date than Monday night, and it is, of course, possible that the situation underwent a change yesterday. Late last night, however, we received the following statement from Reuter’s Agency: Telegrams from Moscow dated Nov. 11 report street fighting in that city. The Provisional Government troops have been reinforced, and are making good progress. As far as the British Consulate knows, there have been no casualties in the British colony there. According to reports telegraphed on Monday from Haparanda, on the Russo-swedish frontier, all political parties are deserting the Maximalists, and the revolution is expected to be over in a few days. It is also reported that M. Kerenski has arrived in Petrograd, and that Moscow and South Russia are controlled by Cossacks faithful to him.