The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-11
Korniloff Moves
 On to Petrograd

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 sional government besides arresting I1adimir N. Lvoff, who brought Korni- loff's ultimatum to the provisional government, took into custody eighty other persons.
 The newspaper Isvestia announces
 that the constitutional democratic
 ministers relinquished their portfolios on the ground that the Korniloff af- fair. was one for decision by the en- tire cabinet and not by directorate.
 Trouble for the Kerensky government also is threatened by the maxima1ists. At yesterdays sitting of the council of soldiers and workmen they again urged that all power should pass in to the hands of the socialists. It was resolved at the meeting, however, that Premier Kerensky should be support led uncopditionally.
 Monday night the capital was quiet and traffic was normal.
 Gen. Savonkoff has taken over the office of military governor of Petro- grad in place of Gen. Vasilkovsky, re- signed. Gen Savonkoff has address ed a reassuring proclamation to the populace, saying that all necessary measures were being taken for the defense of the fatherland and of free dom.
 Gen. Klembovsky, the commander on the Riga front, has not yet been commissioned chief of all the armies of Russia, which post was refused by Gen. Lokomsky on account of the inn possibility of K1embovsky reaching grand headquarters
 No report has yet been received of a collision between government troops and the forces of Gen. Kornfloff which are coming toward Petrograd It is officially stated that a part of the rival forces met near sLuga and
 communicated with each other with
 out hostiiities breaking out. One of
 Gen. Korniloff's detachments is said
 to be advancing from the Narya.; Both sides are still organizing and appeal ing for support.
 fs The BQurse Gazette says the cav
 airy which Gen. Korniloff sent against
 the capital has reached Ono, 120
 miles from Petrograd The military
 section of the council of soldiers and
 workmen at Petrograd had sent emis-
 saries to explain the character of the
 movement to the officers of the Kor-
 niloff cavalry. The delegates deliy-
 cred Premier Kerensky's order of the
 day and the advance of the cavalry stopped at Ono to await further in-
 structions.
 Premier Kerensky has sent instruc-
 tions by wireless to all railroad organ
 izations. requiring the officials to re-
 fuse to, obey any order from Gen.
 Korniloff The premier has received a telegram from the commander of the
 Baltic fleet promising support.
 It is said that Gen Kaledines, ata-
 man of the Cossacks, has teIegraphed
 to Premier Kerensky threatening that
 if he does not accede to Gen. Korni-
 loff's demands the Cossacks will cut
 the Moscow railroad. thus isolating
 Retrograd.
 Government officials are tearing up
 the railroad tracks at Semrino 40
 versts from Petrograd, in order to
 stay the approach of Gen. Korniloff's troops. A special train which left Petrograd during the night for Sem-
 rino carried the chiefs of the railroad
 departments, a large staff of workmen and representaties of the council of workmen's and soldiers delegates Gen. Korniloff's '.Sikaya" division, which was formerly stationed at Put koff and consists of Georgians and other Caucasus tribesmen, is reported to have occupied writza, Or Little Wy rayn, on the Petrograd- -Rybinsk rail- road 54 versts from Petrograd. Members of the Russian Provisional government discussed today as an all formative or complement to a directory the formation of a permanent national
 assembly on the lines of the Moscow confeence which. is to be summoned | immediately. In conversations with the Associated
 Press today leaders of the Petrograd
 council of deputies declared that the Provisional governments trump card
 was that the railroad employees were. entirely on it's side and that obduracy by Gen. Korniloff would result in a general strike, depriving Korniloff of all supplies and of all means of irn- posing his will on the rest of Russia.