Up the Nevsky, in the empty after-midnight gloom, an interminable column of soldiers shuffled in silence—to battle with Kerensky. In dim back streets automobiles without lights flitted to and fro, and there was furtive activity in Fontanka 6, headquarters of the Peasants’ Soviet, in a certain apartment of a huge building on the Nevsky, and in the _Injinierny Zamok_ (School of Engineers); the Duma was illuminated…. In Smolny Institute the Military Revolutionary Committee flashed baleful fire, pounding like an over-loaded dynamo…. Chapter VII The Revolutionary Front Saturday, November 10th…. Citizens! The Military Revolutionary Committee declares that it will not tolerate any violation of revolutionary order…. Theft, brigandage, assaults and attempts at massacre will be severely punished…. Following the example of the Paris Commune, the Committee will destroy without mercy any looter or instigator of disorder…. Quiet lay the city. Not a hold-up, not a robbery, not even a drunken fight. By night armed patrols went through the silent streets, and on the corners soldiers and Red Guards squatted around little fires, laughing and singing. In the daytime great crowds gathered on the sidewalks listening to interminable hot debates between students and soldiers, business men and workmen. Citizens stopped each other on the street. “The Cossacks are coming?” “No….” “What’s the latest?” “I don’t know anything. Where’s Kerensky?” “They say only eight versts from Petrograd…. Is it true that the Bolsheviki have fled to the battleship _Avrora?”_ “They say so….” Only the walls screamed, and the few newspapers; denunciation, appeal, decree…. An enormous poster carried the hysterical manifesto of the Executive Committee of the Peasants’ Soviets: ….They (the Bolsheviki) dare to say that they are supported by the Soviets of Peasants’ Deputies, and that they are speaking on behalf of the Soviets of Peasants’ Deputies…. Let all working-class Russia know that this is a LIE, AND THAT ALL THE WORKING PEASANTS—in the person of—the EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE ALL-RUSSIAN SOVIETS OF PEASANTS’ DEPUTIES—refutes with indignation all participation of the organised peasantry in this criminal violation of the will of the working-classes…. From the Soldier Section of the Socialist Revolutionary party: The insane attempt of the Bolsheviki is on the eve of collapse. The garrison is divided…. The Ministries are on strike and bread is getting scarcer. All factions except the few Bolsheviki have left the Congress. The Bolsheviki are alone…. We call upon all sane elements to group themselves around the Committee for Salvation of Country and Revolution, and to prepare themselves seriously to be ready at the first call of the Central Committee…. In a hand-bill the Council of the Republic recited its wrongs: Ceding to the force of bayonets, the Council of the Republic has been obliged to separate, and temporarily to interrupt its meetings.