New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-04
Treason Charge Against
Tchernof Leads to
Crisis in Ministry
- N
Petrograd Governor
Slain by Assassin
Teutons Capture Czerno-
witz; Russians Quit
Campolung


new crisis, as serious as any she has
weathered since the revolution.
Kerensky, Premier and War Minister.
has resigned and has recalled his Tess-
nation. He is madng q last effort TO
build up q strong government, . So
cialist and radical government
And while political chaos prevails in
Petrograd and the armies of the new
republic have yielded Czernowitz, CAPT
tai Of Bukowina, to the Teuton, an
archy is showing its head again in the
capital. The Military Governor has
been shot down and killed. Gurko,
whose name has been linked with
Ruzsky's, has been arrested.
Kerensky and all the members Of
his Cabinet, with the exception Of Vice
Premier Nekrasof, resigned tonight IS
the result of accusations against N.
Tchernoff, the Minister Of Agriculture,
and a complete breakdown Of the ne
gotations to bring the Constitutional
Democrats into the ministry.
Terestchenko Out
Later, with the exception Of ".
Tchernof and II. Terestehenko, the
Foreign Minister, the Cabinet mem
bers withdrew their designations. and
it was announced that last attempt
would be made to reconstruct the min
istry under Premier Kerensky, with the
chief new members chosen exclusively
from the Socialist and Radical parties
eliminating the cadets entirely.
NJ. Tchernoff, who is a Socialist, was
the first member of the Cabinet to re-
| sign. In better to Premier Kerensky,
be said he was lesving the ministry 10
obtain freedom Of action to defend his
character against charges that he had
been connected with the German Gen
eral Staff. In accepting his resignation.
the government expressed the eonvic-
ton that NJ. Tchernof would succeed
in rehabilitating himself.
TchernoH . Central Figure
VI. Tchernoff has been one Of the
central figures in the present Cabinet
troubles in Russia. One Of the con-
ditions raised By the CONSTITUTIONAL
Democrats, whose presence in the Cab
met was desired, was that NJ. Tchernof
should resign, But Premier Kerensky
was reported TO have resolved to sacri-
fee neither NJ. Tchernoff nor N. Teres-
tehenko, the Foreign Minister, who also
is opposed by the Constitutional Demo
Gratis.
The documents, the discovery OF
which led 10 the resignation Of NJ.
Tchernoff, are said to indicate that he
made contributions TO q newspaper in
Switzerland which has relations with
the German General Staff. II is re-
ported that the portfolio Of Agriculture
will be left vacant temporarily.
Twenty civilians, with rifles, pistols
and ammunition, we're sent TO Holden
Vile and Wewoka By Adjutant General
carp, following appeals from the sher-
ifs in these places. who fear troubls
from the draft resisters.
General Erdelli, the military COVE nor
of Petrograd, was treacherously shot
in the back and killed to-day, accord
ing to the "Bourse Gazette" He sue
ceeded General Polovtsef on July IS,
following the rioting in the capital, and
had previously been commander OF the
Eleventh Army.
General Gurko, former commander
of the armies Of the Southwestern
front, who retired last May, has been
arrested. according to Reuters cor
respondent The same 5ource reports
that the military at Kiev have arrested
Ensign Krylenko. a member Of the Gen.
tral Executive Committee OF the Coun-
ell of Workmen's and Soldiers Delo-
gates, on a charge Of circulating Maxi
mslist propaganda IN the Eleventh
Army.
Commands Black Sea Fleet
CAPTAIN Nemitz has been promoted 10
| be rear admiral and commander ot tne
Russian Black Sea feet. He succeeds
| Admiral Kolchak in command OF
| the feet.
The Provisional Government has re.
! fused 70 acknowledge Finland's inde-
penuenCs law, anu nos lhot AoeNSS
! manifesto dissolving the Landtag and
! appointing a general election on oeto-
| Der /, declaring that the government
when the Landtag meets will submit its
own law regulating Russo-Finnish re-
/ latlons.
| The manifesto, which Is signed by all
ten ministers, expounds the Provisional
/ Governments contention that Finland
! eniovs independence only within the
| limits defined by her constitution. thu
essential factor Of which Is the posi-
tion of the Emperor and Grand Duke
which has now passed to the Provis-
| ional Government.