Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-09-07
MONARCHIAL COUP
FAILS IN RUSSIA.
Plan 10 Arrest Provisional Gov
eransnt Suppressed,
LEADERS ARE ARRESTED
PIotters Had Headquarters Near
Petrosrad-Deny korniloff viii
Lose His Post.

Petroerad-Deny korniloff Will
Lose His Post.
The attorney of the high court
OF Moscow has unearthed coun.
ter revolutionary, morarc1is ic con.
spiracy, the design of which, &C.
cording to report presented to the
cabinet, was to accomplish coup
d'etat by arresting the provisional gov.
crnment.
Many arrests have been made of Off.
GERS and civilians in Moscow and the
provinces and some also in Petrograd.
Tie names of the arrested persons, the
authorities for the present refuse to
divulge.
1t appears that the headquarters of
the conspirators was the villa district
outside of Pctrograd.
Premier kerenslIy personally is con.
ducting preliminary inquiry.
The Birzheviya declares that tie gu.
thorltles first received news of the
conspiracy from the council OF dapu.
ties. A conference of representatives
Of the army committees at Moscow has
passed resolution demanding the
merciless suppression of the counter
revolutionary movement.
In an official statement made to the
newspapers - Vice Premier Nek~asoff
denies all reports that there was in
contemplation q movement to super.
sede General Kcrniloff. commander.:n n
chief Of the Russian army. On the
contrary, the vice premier dacler7s the
provisional government is in ccmp'e'e
accord with General Korniloff, some o.
whose stipulations already have bee
carried into effect, while others are
under consideration.
The government, adds tie statement
has compIe'e confidence in Genera
Korniloff, who keeps clear of political
intrigues and maintains complete po
litical neutrality.
Boris Savinkoff, the acting minister
OF war, will shortly confer with Gen
eral Ko-riloff regarding the measures
the commander-ir-c chief regards IS i'm
perative to prevent further disaster.
1t was with only four voices in dis
sent, one of which was that of NJ
Tseretelli, former minister of posts and
talegraphs, that the Petrograd coun'
ell of workmen's and soldiers depu
ties adopted its resolution protesting
against the death penalty at The front
or in the rear of the lines. The reso
luton was proposed by the Social revo
lutionists, who declared that the pen
atty of death was condemned by Social
lists everywher and even by most
Democrats, its opponents holding that
it tends to corrupt the population, es
peciaIly those individuals in it who are
concerned directly or indirectly with
inficting the penalty. It's imposition
the sponsors Of the resolution held,
would in reality be means of fright.
ening the soldiers in order to moke
them, the slaves of the commanding
officers.
The REORGANIZATION of the army, i
was argued by the opponents of TIL
death penalty, cannot be effected be
its imposition. but only by making tie
soldiers understand that they are no.
required to fcht fer TIE preservation
Of imrer'alstic intere-ts.
To General Kornilc~'s telegram
which he said he must aeain catoeo"'
cally insist th9t the disciplinary meas
rres he outlined ct the Mo7ccw CO.
ference he carried CIT irlmodi te'v
Premier Ke~e~ SKY re"'iod, s~vi"g th''
the measures requested hv the .ro'
eral hnd hean worked out All Wo"'
immediately ha subrii'ted 70 tho y"
visional government for CO. sidHrotio