the operative staff, the workmen of several trade unions. It was intended to mobilize on the next day all the organizations in which workmen were taken into account; but they were not called to arms, because arms were not received in time. It should be observed that among these workmen there were, with very few exceptions, no Christians, because they obviously evaded it; so that the departure for the front of a workmen's division almost exclusively composed of Jews caused fresh comments among the population, which had already been sufficiently stirred up by black-hundred officers and pogromists.
The detachment of Cherkassy occupied on the left flank the extreme section of the flank, from the sugar-factory past the brick works in the direction towards the station. About 2 P.M. on Friday, May 16, the detachment, being in line with the detachments of Lokhvitz, Piriatin and others, went into action, and, having repulsed the attacks of the Grigorievist lines, drove the Grigorievists back to Belozeria. Of the negative aspects of the moment must be mentioned the absence of cartridges and arms. Many comrades started going without rifles, with nothing but revolvers, or even with nothing at all. Cartridges soon ran out. All these things had been brought up near the city in sufficient quantities, but the train was unable to get into the city. Further, connections were wholly destroyed; on the defeat of the second Soviet regiment, the commanding personnel of which went over to the Grigorievists, all technical facilities were seized.
All these and many other conditions brought it about that the right wing and after it the center wavered and fell back. Because there were no communications and the lines were interrupted, the retreat of the first part was not known on the left wing, and it held for two or three hours after the right wing had broken. Besides this, the more the lines of the left wing advanced against the Grigorievists, the less became the distance between the two lines; and there came a time when the enemy were clearly visible to the writer (at a distance of 100-150 sazhens). At this period the Grigorievists completely stopped firing and stood up at full length; they began to wave their swords, and it looked as if they were surrendering. In response to the cries of our red soldiers they scattered over the field and some of them surrendered, possibly with provocatory intent, because they immediately started a violent agitation among the red soldiers (the prisoners remained in the lines, since we were far from the city and there was no one to take them away). This agitation followed the definite theme that the war was between brothers, that there was no difference in their aims, that
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