Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-12
SECRET MEETING OF
ALL AMBASSADORS

Petrograd. Monday. Sept. 10.-A
council Of all ambassadors including
those representing neutral countries
was held late this afternoon at which
a situation was discussed about which
all information was later refused. Fol-
lowing the meeting the amba ssadors
from the Entente nations held sep
arate conference.
Savonkoff's Proclamation
General Savonkoff. the new military
governor of Petrograd, in his procla-
nation urged the population to re-
main calm. He declared that every
person caught acting against the rev.
"lu'cn would be treated as a traitor.
G5ni'al Korniloff in his second
r5o, iamation declared that he was the
sar Of a simple Cossack; that he could
not tolerate Russias shame, and pre-
ferred death. The proclamation &C.
cused the government of acting in
the interests of the German general
staff
According to statements made to
The Associated Press. General Lokom-
Sky, CHIEF Of the general staff at the
front, is the real brains and soul of
the revolt. His telegram declared that
~ the government refused to accede
10 General Korniloff's demand the re-
suits would he serious.
The cabinet then discussed meas
ures necessary for the security OF Pc
troErad. deciding to declare martial
law and to appoint new commander
Of the Petrograd military district in
Vlarn of General Noct1koycL,-
Sundays Events
On the afternoon of Sunday, Pre-
mier kerensky again was in commu-
nication with the headquarters in the
field. speaking with both Generals
korniloff and Lokomsky and reiter-
ating his demands that korniloff sur
render his post as commander in chief
20 General klembovsky
ON General Korniloff giving an eva
siNe answer Premier Kcrensky cate
Eoricaily ordered him to come to Pc
trograd. To this korniloff gave an
emphatic refusal He declared in gen.
eral that he would not accept orders
from tho Premier
Premier kcrensky then made to the
cabinet prolonged report on the
situation. repeating his proposal to
form directory composed of small
number of persons. Here the premier
met his first opposition from the con-
stitutioral democratic ministers who
declared they were unable TO accent
tho dictatorship OF the directory and
would consent to remain in the cab
met only If all the material focts con-
corning the revolt and all the plans
for the suppression thereof were sub
n,itted 20 the cabinet in full
After a heated debate during which
NJ. Kerensky and the socialist minis
tiers held 20 tho concentration scheme.
tho constitutional democratic minis
ters announced that they would re-
sign.
when the cabine. ministers discuss
ID ne an alternative Or a complement
In n directory. the formation of per-
manert national assembly on the lines
~ the Moscow conference. the So
c'aiists insisted that representatives
~ the Bourgeois interests which were
assumed to he in sympathy with Cen
sral Korniloff. should be excluded from
the National Assembly. They also de-
mandcd that members of the Duma
and Cavaliers of ST. George. and other
organizations suspected of counter
revolutionary leanings he barred.
Military Prospects
Regarding the military prospects OF
the revolt it was stated today that