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 On November 3d Burtzev’s Obshtchee Dielo came out with great headlines:

What Verkhovsky really said was that the Allies must be pressed to offer peace, because the Russian army could fight no longer…

Both in Russia and abroad the sensation was tremendous. Verkhovsky was given “indefinite leave of absence for ill-health”, and left the Government. Obshtchee Dielo was suppressed…

Sunday, November 4th, was designated as the Day of the Petrograd Soviet, with immense meetings planned all over the city, ostensibly to raise money for the organisation and the press; really, to make a demonstration of strength. Suddenly it was announced that on the same day the Cossacks would