New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-22
AIexief Quits
After Quarrel
With Kerensky
Whole Situation in Russia
pepends on Septem-
Der IS Congress
Girls Battalion in Riot
v;litiamen Rescue Woman
Leader From Infatuated
Followers

pyTRoGRAD, Sept. 2l.- General
u.,;en has resigned his post as chief
. ,le General staff under Premier
w..,skv. the commander in chief Of
=. prssian armies. according TO news
..,,r reports to-day. The resignation
I'D 70 he due to differences with the
p,,rier. the latter insisting on the
-.rovsl from headquarters of all Off
uDder suspicion of completely with
General Sornilotf.
Tho resignation Of General Alexieff
~ been followed by the appointment
his place Of VI. Tcheremlsoif, whose
..,S;lcctiors are highly democratic.
=. annointr,cnt OF VI. Tcheremisof is
..tsn A. the signal for drastic reforms,
=. ,be immediate motive for a change
the incumbency Of the post is not
vvblicly known.
Eppssia's political question Of imme-
sste interest is the democratic con-
t-sss summoned by the Central Sol
tsrs' ana Norkmen's Council, which is
"a meet m PCtroCrad on September %
,,s which is being proclaimed as of
mar, importance than was the recent
eorgress az Moscow.
The programme of the democratic
.onrress so far as known is TO settle
he question Of organization or author
Nv which will lead the country TO a
.crstituent assembly" That means TO
s,,tle the Cabinet question and 10 con-
sti,ute a parliament 20 which the Cabl-
net will be responsible.
Bourgcoisie Excluded
7, the congress will participate 100
r,presenta.ivcs Of municipalities, so of
,smstvos. $50 Of cooperative organlza-
tons. II Of military organizations, 100
~ labor unions. 800 of the councils of
soldiers and Workmen'S Deputies and
also REPRESENTATIVES of the railroad
unions. industrial organizations and
rational unions on a basis which will
practically exclude altogether the
bourgeoisie and propertied classes.
Members Of the Duma have not been
invited
Unlike the Moscow congress, the new
congress will not be official, but those
who are coryCkjng 10 claim that II VIII
be more representative, and they insist
that the government must recognize II.
The attitude OF the government regard
ing the congress is doubtful. All the
bourgeoise and Constitutional Demo
cratic newspapers take up negative
attitude, declaring that the congress
will not be representative, and there
fore unqualified 20 Crlticlse. II is prac-
ticallv certain that Premier Kerensky
will address the congress, as he still
is member Of the Central Council OF
Soldiers and Workmer's Deputies, but
he nav do 50 in .aat capacity and not
IS Prime Minister.
Cossacks Protest
A. a meeting hold yesterday Of the
Cossack Union complaints were heard
that the CossacEs practically had been
excluded from the congress, the Cos
sacks invited being unrepresentative.
but VI. KarsuloF, a Coss9Ck leader and
member Of the Dlma. advised his fol-
lowers not TO D)vcott The congress.
The Cossacks at the meeting decided 10
ask the government 10 define its atti-
tude toward the congress.
In view of the early converting Of the
Democratic Congress and the uncer-
tainty as 20 the temper Of that body. II
is regarded likely that no further Cabi-
net appointments will be announced at
present
The chances for victory of the Maxi
malists In the congress seemingly are
not as great as might be indicated by
their domination i'm Petrograd and
Moscow councils, according to gossip in
government circles, due &c a split in the
Social Revolutionary party. Of which a
substantial group declared for Premier
Kerensky and against an exclusively
Socalistic Cabinet. A similar attitude
is assumed by a large element of the
Naximalists, who stand for a continual
ton Of the war.
Girls Attack Leader
A small riot occurred yesterday in
the ranks Of the women's battalion
drilling al Moscow. and it resulted In
an attack by the girls upon Vera Butch
ksref. the twice-wounded girl officer
who initiated the woman suffrage sol
der organizations. According TO the
"BOurSe Gazette" an lnfantryman res
eued Commander Butchkaref after
some rough handling by the Infatuated
girls, who resented some acts of their
leader not clearly defined.
as q ltNAlL VI NlAt an eAAAS ii'"''s
the girls will be sent home, and only
25O will be permitted TO 90 to the front.
A second riot, of more serious con-
sequences, is reported TO have followed
an attempt by a crowd of women to
take away from one woman small
quantity Of cloth which she had pur-
chased at the market place. Militlamen
tried TO defend the woman, and they
in turn were assailed. Mounted militia
and Cossacks dispersed the rioters. but
not until they had wrecked the militia
headquarters and had beaten to death
., government agent who had shot into
the crowd
The taking of testimony in the trial
Of General W. A. Soukhomlinof, for
mer Minister Of War, who is charged
with treason, and his wife, the latter
charged with being an accessory, was
finished yesterday. Prosecutor Noso-
witch in summing up the evidence de.
elared that when the investigation OF
General Soukhomlinof's affairs began
there was no thought that the charges
would include spy work and treason;
The evidence. however, he declared, led
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