Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-11
Head of Russian Armies
Caught in Plot to Over
throw the Government.
PLANNED TO NAME HIMSELF
AS MILITARY DICTATOR
Premier, Facing Open Rebellion,
Assumes Absolute Pow
ers of a Gear.
PETRoGRAD IN STATE OF WAR
Germans Threatening New Drive, in
Order to Take Advantage of
Chaotic Conditions. ia

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| PETRoGRAD. September 1o.-New
! chaos engulfs Russia: on its crest rides
civil war.
| General Korniloff. caught In plot
to overthrow Kerensky and appoint
himself military dictator. has been
ousted commander in chief. En-
trenched at army headquarters. SUR
rounded by loyal lieutenants, oacked
| by his devoted Cossacks at the front,
and the powerful Prince Lvoff-NIiliu-
koff party at home. he refuses to re-
! sign. and dcfes Kcrensky to force MIN
| out. t..'
General Lokomsky, one Of Kornilofra
| right hand men. has turned down Ke.
| rensky's offer to succeed Korniloff. So
he. too, stigmatized as a traitor. 10
ordered to resign He too. is defiant.
| Thereupon Kerensky's choice for
genera lissimo fell upon klembovsky.
commander Of the beaten Twelfth
! Army. north OF Riga.
Petroerad. in the grip Of famine and
panic. has been declared by Keeensky
! TO be in state OF war. This includes
the whole district of the capital s
Facing open rehellions this time by
! part of the army. Kcrensky, with the
| consent of the provisional government,
has assumed the absolute powers ot a
| Car. He announces he will not yield
| one iota to the counter er-revolutionists,
but cut at tho roots OF the KnrniloR
movement. NJ. Lvoff, member of the
| Duma (not to be confused with the
prince of the same name). Is under
arrest as the Eo-between who brought
Kerensky Korniloft's ultima tum.
GIANT. PINcER DRIVE s=ri ~
THREATENED BY GEHaIASS
Quick TO exploit the new storm that
sweeps Russia. trying to help 1t ma
ture into the long looked for typhoon
OF civil war, tine Germans are turning
the crank of their war machine in tho
east to the tune of drumhre at Dvinsk
and in Roumania. a giant pincer drive
designed to crack 7O0-mile front wide
open, threatens to begin any moment
An outline of what happened he-
tween army headquarters and Petro-
grad in the last seventy-two hours Ia
best given by Premier Kerensky him.
self in the following proclamation.
made public to-day:
ION September 8, member of the
Duma. M Lvoff. arrived in Petrograd.
and called upon mo in the name OF
General korniloff to hand over all civil
and military powers to the general.
| issimo. who would form new gov
ernment at his pleasure. The authen.,
ITCHY of this summons was afterward3
confirmed by General Kornilorr him.
self. who had conversation with ms
| over the direct telegraphic wire be.
| tween PctroGrad and main headouar-
| ters.
REQUIRED TO TAKE URGENT
INDISPENSABLE sIEAsUREs
considering this summons. adj
dressed through me to the provisional
| government, as an attempt by certain
quarters to profit by the difficult situa.
! ton OF the country and tablish q
state OF things contrary to the con-
quests OF the revolution. the provi-
sional government has recognized tho
necessity of charging me. for tho
SAFETY OF the republican regime, to
take the urgent. Indispensable measures
necessary to cut at the roots all at
tempts against the supreme power and
rights OF the citizens won by tho
| revolution.
| II, therefore. for the maintenance
in the country OF liberty and public
order. am taking all measures. which
l shall announce at the proper moment
TO the people. At the same time, I
order General Korniloff to hand over
ms functions to General klembovsky,
| commander-in chief OF the armies on
the northern front, which bar the way
TO PetroSrad. and order General
| klcmbovsky to assume professionally
the functions OF generalissimo while
remaining at Pskov.
| Secondly. l declare a state of war
In the town and district OF Petrograd
appeal to all citizens to remain
calm. maintain the order necessary for
the welfare Of the fatherlaud and the
army and navy, and TRANQUILITY and
faithfully fulfill their duty in the de-
Tense OF the fatherland against the
foreign enemy"
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
HOPELESSLY PARALYzED
| The restless conditions prevailing In
PetroErad are not SO much due to fear
| OF German attack to the shortage
OF rood and coal. The transportation
system Is hopclessly paralyzed. Thous.
ands are crowdng the railway stations,
waiting day and night for a train to
| carry them away from the capital to
country districts where food and fuel
| conditions are not SO menacing
| What effect the deposition OF Korut.
lof will have upon the army is as yet
incalculable. Certain It Is that the
Cossacks. the only part OF Russ!a's
armies never affected by the wave OF
| cowardice and treachery. idolize him.
FIe is himself of Cossack blood.
| AS long as Korniloff refuses to re-,
| linquish the chief command-and thus
far no way OF forcing him out ssams
praeticAblA--a fatal dual oriss-eross