inopportuneness of the uprising. The latter in his turn stated that the uprising had been postponed from 12 at night to 6 A.M., and said he would see to it that it was further postponed to a more favorable occasion. In truth, when Schenkmann, after this conversation, returned to the Central Bureau, the commissar of the bolshevik revolutionary committee, who had been left there, told him that he had received a telephone message that the uprising was postponed. Schenkmann then went around the city to make sure that the guards were in their places. And when he returned again to the bureau, the same commissar informed him that a new change had been made and that the uprising was appointed for after 6 A.M.; the signal would be given by shots.
Shots were, in fact, fired at a quarter to seven in the morning, and the uprising began. The bolsheviks first seized the post and telegraph office, and arrested commandant Kiverchuk, considering him, not without reason, a dangerous black-hundreder and pogromist. In one of the apartments of the Trachtenberg house on Alexandrovskaya street in the very center of town, they opened their headquarters. Some of them went to the barracks of the 15th Bielgorod and the 8th Podolia regiments. There they awakened the sleeping soldiers and informed them that the uprising had begun and that the organs of the bolshevist regime were already being formed. They proposed to the soldiers to sally out against Petlura's soldiers, who were concentrated in cars at the station. When the soldiers pointed out that they had no machine guns, they were told that the peasants had them and were already nearing the city to take part in the uprising. Then the bolshevistically inclined soldiers arrested their officers, and also the soldiers who were against the uprising. They seized the regimental weapons and started in the direction of the station. There they opened fire on the cars in which were the Gaidamaks and other Cossacks. But when the latter came out of their cars and the attacking soldiers saw how numerous they were, they retreated to their barracks. The Cossacks pursued them and began to fire on the barracks. Then the soldiers withdrew to Felshtin and Yarmolintsy, whither a part of them had previously been sent to arouse the bolshevist revolt; and afterwards they dispersed to various places and thus escaped pursuit.
After the withdrawal of the soldiers it was clear that the revolt had failed. The shooting which took place early in the morning had aroused the councilmen of the city, and they began to assemble in the Town Hall. Several times the mayor and
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the president of the council went to the commandant's headquarters, but no information was given them there. At last they saw Kiverchuk driving up to headquarters, and learned from him that he had been arrested. When they asked who had arrested him, he replied, "The Jews, members of the ward guard." He added that his own orderly had joined them, and that he had just shot the orderly with his own hands.
End of Bolshevist Uprising