Republican farmer., 1918-11-22
Through Coup of Ministers Council at Onlsk He
 Takes Command. IS SUPREME Move Due to Extraordinary Circumstances and Dan
 ger Menacing State.

Vladivosteck, Tuesday, Nov. 19-(By the A. P.)-Through a coup on the part of the council of ministers of the new All Russian government at Omsk, Admiral Alexander Kolchak has become virtual dictator and commander of the All-Russian army and fleet. Two ministers, M. Avkstentieff and M. Zenzen- off, who opposed Admiral Kol- chak's dictatorship, have been arrested.
 A portion of the directorate of the erstwhile Ufa government which formed the administrative body of the 1 new government and to which the ninistery was responsible, supports Admiral Kolchak.
 Telegrams received here from Omsk | state that the move was due to ex- traordinary circumstances and dan ! ger renacing the state.'' The coun- 1 cil of ministers has assumed author- ! ity and transferred it to Admiral Kol- chak. The latter has accepted the re-
 sponsibility and, It is announced7Ahas entered upon his duties as "suprerfe~ ! governor" General Rorvath, General l Ivanoff, minister of war of the Omsk ! government and General Renof, for mer commander of the All-Russian forces, announce that they recognize i the new authority.
 | The coup occurred on November IS. l M. Vologodsky, head of the western i Siberian government, wbo is mem- i ser of both the directorate and the 1 council of ministers retains his post as premier. General Boldereff is ab- 1 sent from Omsk and his attitude ls i unknown. French Commissioner : Renault is at Onsk and British Com missioner Elliott will leave tmmedi- l ately for that city.
 1 The local Zemstvo, provincial coun- ell and other minor organizations held a conference early today. It is indi- cated that there is at present a dis position not to recognize the Kolchak | government.
 The activities of the Radical wing 1 represented in the all Russian govern nent forced the conservative e1e- ments to adopt counter measures &C., cording to Lieut.. General Horvath, prominent among the leaders in the 1 anti-Bolshevtk movement in Siberia, who gave his view of the coup when seen on his train at his headquarters. These measures. he said, included the arrest of many members of the Left of the Social revolutionists among them four ministers and assistant
 ministers
 The government, in the face of this accomplished fact" Gen. Horvath ex-
 pIained, found it advisable to declare
 the directorate abolished and to trans fer temporarily the superior authority 1 to supreme governor, whose power
 is limited by the council of ministers.
 In other words, there Is mutual re-
 sponsibility."
 The change in the government was
 accepted by the people and the troops
 without disorder.
 The success of the coup, in the opin-
 ion of Horvath, rests with the United
 States. France and England, he be-
 ieved, would not withhold recognition
 Of the new order, since the personnel
 or the ministers and the policy of the
 government remained unchanged.
 Admiral Kolchak was comnander 1 of the Russian Black Sea fleet be-
 lore the revolution. He was com. pelled in June, 1917, to surrender
 command of that fleet to the revolu-
 tlonists He did this after throw
 ing overheard his sword, which the l Japanese had left him when rho p,. i sians evacuated Port Arthur in ina | Russo-Japanese war. Later in 1917, 1 ne visited this country at the head
 of 8 naval commission from the Ker- ensky government and discussed pos- sible cc ' peration between the Rus
 sian and Allied fleets. Washington, Nov. 21-News of the
 coup at Onsk, by which Admiral kolehak irtually has become dicto-
 tor of the all-Russian forces. is re- l garded at the state department as an- 1 other sign pointing to stabilization | Of the movement relied upon to re- | generate Russia.
 1 Admiral Kolchak is thought to be A man who will not misuse his author
 ity and whose hostility toward tho i Bolshevik elements which have led | to the disruption of tn ecountry is l strong.
 1 The jurisdiction of the Omsk gov i ernment extends to a large section l of Russians to the west who have
 been affected by the Bolshevik doc
 trines that spread from the German 1 intrigues with Lenine and Trotzky l and their followers.