The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-12
Commanders on Southwest ern and Western Fronts Align Forces Against Ker-
 ensky Regime-Part of Korniloff's Army Rumor- ed to Be Surrendering.
Gen. Klembovsky's Refusal to Succeed Kornilof As Commander in Chief of Russian Armies Puzzles Officials-Major General Bruyovitch Takes Post.

Bruyovitch Takes Post.
 Petrograd, Sept. 12-The Pro- [
 visional government declared
 today that a state of war ex- ists in the town and district of
 Moscow.
 Maj. Gen. Bonch Bruyovitch
 has been appointed commander
 in chief of the Russian army in
 succession to Gen. Kornlioff.
 Gems. Denikine and Valuveff, :. commanding the southwestern
 and western fronts respective ly, have joined Gen. Korniloff T according to announcement int
 the Petrograd newspapers,1 given out by the semi mi-off1cial
 news agency.
 An earlier report from Petro-,
 grad said that Gen. Denil1ine
 had been placed under arrest.
 Alexander Guchkoff, the octoberist
 leader and former minister of war
 and navy, who after leaving Petro-
 grad last Saturday, joined the Kornf-
 loff movement, has been arrested. He
 is now> under guard at Pfskoff.
 Vladimir Purishkevich, the we'll
 known reactionary under the old reg
 ime, who was arrested in Dvinsk and
 later released, is reported to be again in custody s2 Petrograd is Said to haA svfhcieTk provisions to last for four or five days. | The Associated Press. was person. ally informed this afternoon by Min- ister of Finance Nekrasoff that the
 forces of Gen. Korniloff in the direc-
 tion of Pskof and in Ono. which were marching on Petrograd. had been out
 unanswered by the troops loyal to { the Provisional government and that their retreat had been cut off. The central committee of the con- stitutional democratic party today in formed Premier Kerensky that the [ party was agreed to its members joining a reconstituted Russian cabi- net in order to avoid civil war. Winter Palace, Petrograd, Sept. 12--k While unable yet to report the final | overthrow of Gen. Korniloff, members
  ment in conversation with the sAsso- = ciated Press last evening summed up z the situation opfimistically. The new commander in chief of the Russian armies, Major Gen. Bonch Bruyovitch, who formerly was att ! tached to the staff of Gen. Brussitoff, [ one time >S commander in chief, has { from the first been devoted to the pro- visional government.
 xya<3 Sn& the capitol is to the effect that part of Gen. Korniloff's army is surrendering. In an interview. Vice. Premier and Minister of r Finance S NelzIasof, in- formed the Associated Press that Gen. lSprjevalski, commander Of the Cau- lcasus front, and Liept Gen. Dnitri lStcherbatcheff, commander on the Ru- i manian front, had definitely declared their allegiance to the government. From Gen.. Staedlyeff, the commander ! on the western front, no news has been received, but from his attitude there is reason to believe that he re- mains true to the government. The attitude of Gen. Klemboysky, commander of the northern front, is enigmatical He based his refusal to : become commander in chief on the 1 fact that the situation on his front required his personal attention. Gen. Lokomski, the chief of staff the vice premier added, undoubtedly, , was the chief conspirator. There was levidence that the conspiracy had been carefully prepared and we'll in ad- vance, whereas the government was caught wholly unawares.
 The constitutional democrats, M Nekrasoff said. had no part in the plot and no members of that party had been at Gen. Korniloff's head. quarters.
 The government had received in- formation that dissensions had broken out in Gen. Korniloff's camp The army sent from Petrograd, the vice premier declared, had been deceiTed, having been told that Gen. Korniloffs only aim was to drive the bolsheviki
 mept had taken measures to unde-
 ceive the soldiers on this point. M. Nekrasom concluded, as regards : the composition of the Provisional cabinet, that M. Youreneff, minister of public works, and Professor Kok- osline, the state controller, were the only ministers who had definitely re- signed their posts. The attitude of M. Oldenburg, minister of public in- struction, and M. Kartasheff, procura- tor of the holy synod, was doubtful. Premier Kerensky, the vice premier said, has been offered special powers, ! and he has the support of the whole l country.
 PETROGRAD CALM.