“… Above everything we insist upon the inflexible execution of the organised will of the majority of the people, expressed by the Provisional Government in accord with the Council of the Republic and the _Tsay-ee-kah,_ as organ of the popular power…. “Any demonstration to depose this power by violence, at a moment when a Government crisis will infallibly create disorganisation, the ruin of the country, and civil war, will be considered by the Army as a counter-revolutionary act, and repressed by force of arms…. “The interests of private groups and classes should be submitted to a single interest—that of augmenting industrial production, and distributing the necessities of life with fairness…. “All who are capable of sabotage, disorganisation, or disorder, all deserters, all slackers, all looters, should be forced to do auxiliary service in the rear of the Army…. “We invite the Provisional Government to form, out of these violators of the people’s will, these enemies of the Revolution, labour detachments to work in the rear, on the Front, in the trenches under enemy fire….” 7. EVENTS OF THE NIGHT, NOVEMBER 6TH Toward evening bands of Red Guards began to occupy the printing shops of the bourgeois press, where they printed _Rabotchi Put, Soldat,_ and various proclamations by the hundred thousand. The City Militia was ordered to clear these places, but found the offices barricaded, and armed men defending them. Soldiers who were ordered to attack the print-shops refused. About midnight a Colonel with a company of _yunkers_ arrived at the club “Free Mind,” with a warrant to arrest the editor of _Rabotchi Put._ Immediately an enormous mob gathered in the street outside and threatened to lynch the _yunkers._ The Colonel thereupon begged that he and the _yunkers_ be arrested and taken to Peter-Paul prison for safety. This request was granted. At 1 A. M. a detachment of soldiers and sailors from Smolny occupied the Telegraph Agency. At 1.35 the Post Office was occupied. Toward morning the Military Hotel was taken, and at 5 o’clock the Telephone Exchange. At dawn the State Bank was surrounded. And at 10 A. M. a cordon of troops was drawn about the Winter Palace. APPENDIX TO CHAPTER IV 1. EVENTS OF NOVEMBER 7TH From 4 A. M. until dawn Kerensky remained at the Petrograd Staff Headquarters, sending orders to the Cossacks and to the _yunkers_ in the Officers’ Schools in and around Petrograd—all of whom answered that they were unable to move. Colonel Polkovnikov, Commandant of the City, hurried between the Staff and the Winter Palace, evidently without any plan. Kerensky gave an order to open the bridges; three hours passed without any action, and then an officer and five men went out on their own initiative, and putting to flight a picket of Red Guards, opened the Nicolai Bridge. Immediately after they left, however, some sailors closed it again.