The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-15

of the apparatus, the conversation
was as follows:
This is the Minister President,
Kerensky, awaiting General Kornil-
off"
General Korniloff is at the appar-
atus"
Good evening, General Lvov and
Kerensky are at the apparatus. We
ask your confirmation that Kerensky
can act according to the information
communicated to him by Vladimir Nj
kolaievitch.
Good evening, gentlemen. Confirm
ing my definition of the situation of
the country. and the army, which I
gave Vladimir Nikolaievitch, with a
request that he should report it to
you, repeat my announcement that
the events of the past few days, as
well as those impeding, most impera-
lively require that definite decision
should be arrived at with the least
possible delay"
81 ask you: that definite settlements
must be fulfilled, about which you
personally asked me; without thia
confirmation from you yourself, there.
is hesitation in trusting me complete
ly."
Eyes, corroborate that I asked
you to repeat my urgent request to
Ecome to MohiIov.'' -.
81 understood your answer to be a
: confirmation of the communication
: made to me by Lvov. I cannot do this
and leave today. I hope to leave to-
. morrow. Is Savinkov necessary"
81 urge that he should accompany
o you. What I said to Lvov applies
equally to Savinkov. I ask you again
= not to delay your departure any later
than until tomorrow"
u Shall I come only in case the ru-
= mored riots take place or in any
Y case?"
d I'm any case"
d Goodbye! We shall meet soon!'
It Goodbye
Requested to Resign So.
q Not admitting that g. Lvov, member
a of the Imperial Duma, and former
member of the Provisional govern
= ment, could, whatever the induce
ment, distort the sense of what 1 told
him, merely corroborated my invita-
J. ton to Kerensky to come to General
v Headquarters, trusting to talk mat
r tiers over with him, and so arrive al
satisfactory conclusion. 3
If L proposed to discuss with him the
"a above scheme of admins
- tration, and the formation of a new
government.
L likewise invited M. V. Rodzianko
"a Prince P. E. Lvov, and P. N. Milyo.
:, kov to take part in the discussion
=, about the situation, and the measures
. to be taken for preventing the appar.
emily inevitable ruin of the country
and the army and kilograms were
to dispatched, asking them to be at my
v headquarters not later than Angus
I'd 20 September ~.
L expected that the Prime Minister
De would proceed to headquarters or
- August 27 September 81 In the
morning of that day I received al
unnumbered telegram with the sigma
ture ''Kerensky," requesting me to re
n sign the High Command in favor O.
? General Lukomsky, and, without wait
y ing for the arrival of the new Com
mander-in-Chief, to proceed to Petro
grad.
II General ,Korniloff then goes on t.
say that he came to the conclusion
in thinking the matter over that tn,
government had again fallen unde
the influence of irresponsible organi
cations, and that, declining. to carry
out his programme, it had decided tt
/ remove him. the chief initiator, ant
he adds): 'In view of the grave pligh
= of the country and the army,-I decid
~ ed not to resign my post until hat
-, reviewed the situation. ~
y Announcing this to General Lukom
~. sky, 1 asked him if he intended t
- h.
nj Chief, to which he replied that he di
cd not think it possible to replace me-
or By telegraph informed B. v. Saw
I'd inkov, the Minister of War, that I di
not consider it possible to resign m
M post.
in FrocAalhneu traitor
ed On August % the Provisional gov
ed eminent proclaimed me a traitor t
nd my country, and required me to cour
Id termand the order about moving tn
M. detachments of the 3rd Cavalry Corp
which were concentrating on the out
or skirts of Petrograd.
red Bearing in mind-(1) The preyio1
he arrangement of the Provisional go,
RIB eminent about sending the 3rds CAY
Die airy Corps towards Petrograd for til
oppression of Bolshevik movement.
rs ca the assent of the government
m the principle of my programme fl
m restoring the army CD my converse
MS ton with the Acting Minister of Wa
&c. B. V. Savinkov; ca information +,
ace ceived about the increased influenC
of the Council of Workmen's and So
- diers Deputies on the government,
came to this conclusion:
n That the government had succuml
a ed under the influence of the Sovio
a. against whom the government had i
VI self originally called up these troop
ling Therefore. depending on the decla
atoms of the Generals commandir
ores the Northern, Western, South. Yves