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VOLUME XIV.
MSN WITH THE NEEDLE
WILL HAVE BUSY TIME
WITHfiORMNSOLDIERS
Selectmen Are to Be Vacci
nated Against Smallpox and
Typhoid—Physical Examina
tions Begin Wednesday
BY WAHD MOMHOUBE
ATLANTA JOURNAL BUREAU,
CAMP GORDON, Ga.. Sept. 10.—At 7:30
o'clock Tuesday morning long lines of
recruits will stretch away from the man
with the needle, ana before the end of
the day every one of the men of the
new national army will be vaccinated
against smallpox, typhoid and para ty
phoid.
Two more doses of vaccine will be
given at ssven-day intervals. In addi
, ticn to the young fighting men. all the
civilian cooks will be Innoculated.
Wednesday will mark the beginning
of the physical examination at the can
tonment. and on this day "00 of the
selectmen will face the fifty medical
officers assembled to do the work. These
officers will be assisted by a large num-
M - if other medical men.
Nbg examination of the recruits will
take about three days, with different
organisations reporting for examination
at different hours. When the 40 per
cent reaches the cantonment on Sep
tember 19. an average of 1.500 men per
day will be examined. The vaccination
and the physical examination of the sol
diers will be held under the general di
rection of Lieutenant Colonel C. E-
Koerper. medical corps, and under di
rect supervision of Major S. U. Mari
etta, who. will be in command of the
base hospital.
SEPTEMBER SCHEDULE.
The schedule for September work at
the camp was announced Monday by
.Lieutenant Colonel Preston Brown, chief
of staff, as follows;
Physical drill. 7 to 7:30 a. m.
Rest. 7:30 to 7:45 a. m.
ringing, 7:45 to 8:15 a. m.
•chooi of the soldier. 815 to 9 a. m
Semaphore signalling, 9 to 9:15.
Rest. 9:15 to 9:30 a. m. •
School of the squad. 9:30 to 10:? 5 a. m.
Rest. 10:15 to 10:30 a. m.
School of the squad. 10:30 to 11 a. m.
School of the company and march.
1:45 to 3:45.
The singing classes at rhe camp con
vened Monday morning, more men arriv
ed. the first flash of the olive drab on
the figures of recruits as seen on the
open field, a temporary division ex
change was opened, and by nightfall ft
is expected that every man who is com
ing to the cantonment in the first 5 per
eent will have arrived.
i Instead of i.BOO men. Lieutenant Col
‘onel Frederick *. L. Price, receiving of
ficer. announced Monday that a little
more than 1.900 would report in the first
Increment, and that there was no reaso-9
why every man of this number should
not be a bona fide resident of Camp Gor
don. Ga.. by Monday evening.
The officers who have been assisting
Colonel Price in the receiving station are*
preparing to move into larger and more
commodious quarters. which will be
necessary to handle the large numbers
that will stream into the cantonment on
September 20.
GOOD SINGERS. ANYHOW.
At noon Monday 1,850 men had ar
rived.
The men who have been short on
drilling proved Monday that they were
long on singing. In every organisation
there were a number of songbirds, and
when-the young officers called for vol
unteers chaps who had been rather shy
before stepped forward. Such songs
as "Tipperary” and “Hang Kaiser Bill
to a Sour Apple Tree" were popular The
Georgians. Alabamians and Tennes
seans joined in the singing, and the
classes will be held regularly every
morning.
The first of the new men in uniform
to reach the drill field were the mem
bers of the division headquarters troop
who were drilled by Captain Joseph B.
Choate. First Lieutenant R. B. Fentress
and Second Lieutenant Fred C. Jordan,
all of whom were in the same company
at the Fort McPherson training camp.
With the men in their uniforms of olive
drao, the lines did not seem so ragged
and each selectman seemed to have a
great deal more confidence than he had
whqn wearing blue serge trousers and
a white shirt.
Practically every one of the select
men has been measured for clothing and
the majority of them have received hats,
but it is the desire of most of the reg
iments to wait until after the recruits
have been examined before issuing uni
forms. It is estimated that 10 per cent
of those examined will be thrown out
by the army doctors.
On Tuesday Colonels Williams and
Brady, Major Willis D. Peace, of the
Three Hundred and Nineteenth field ar
tillery, and Captain Wilson uHU leave
for Blackjack mountain to Inject the
site which will probably be used as an
artillery range by the Eighty*second di
vision.
The first division exchange to throw
open Its doors was loaded in block Y.
building 3, and did fine business. Sec
ond Lieutenant C. W. Sanderson, of the
quartermaster department, was in charge
of this exchange. Captain Weathers, di
vision exchange officer, announced Mon
day that other exchanges would be
opened shortly.
LITTLE "EXTRAS"
The Red Cross will soon establish
headquarters at Camp Gordon, and it
will be the purpose of the Red Cross
to supply the men of the national army
with little "extras” not furnished by
the government. Two warehouses will
soon be opened, each of which will con
tain a large amount of supplies. Henry
Francis West will be field director at
Camp Gordon.
Cards have been distributed among
the carpenters at the cantonment which
ask the names of all those who would
be willing to join a construction regi
ment which may be organized and sent
to France. It is believed that a large
number of the men employed at the
cantonment would be willing to Join such
a regiment.
General William P. Burnham. the
ranking brigadier general in the United
States army to come from the ranks,
bestrode a horse —his own horse —Mon-
day and Inspected the different regi
ments composing the brigade of which
he is commander.
It is now planned to have a general
inspection of the men every Saturday
morning, with a division march, led by
General Eben Swift, every Friday after
noon. Practically all of the new men
have recovered from the march of last
Full Associated Press Service
AUSTRIAN LOSSES PLACED
*1132.000 IN 19 OHS
Italian Airplanes Bomb Pola,
Sinking One Submarine
and a Cargo Boat
WASHINGTON. Sept. 10—Italian air
planes bombed Pola Sunday, sinking one
Austrian submarine and one cargo boat
loaded with food and munitions, accord
ing to official Rome cables today.
Fierce fighting is taking place east of
Gorlxta. The cables estimated Austrian
losses from August 18 to September 1
at 132,000. including many Germans
and Turks.
"In spite of terrible bombardment from
enemy artillery.'• said the Italian s tate
ment. “our infantry has continued to ad
vance along the whole line from the
Hermada to Castagnavizza.
"Seven successive Austrian attacks
wer* made in the vicinity of Hill 146,
but did not prevent our troops moving
forward towards the hill.
‘•Tunnels of the Duino railway in this
sector have been captured by Italian
troops.
“Continuous counter atateks bysAus
trians failed to accomplish their pur
pose which was to stop the Italian ad
vance in the Gorizia sector.”
145 Guns Are Taken
By Italians in Battle
ROME. Sept. 10.—General Caderna
continued to press the Austrian forces
in the region of the Austro-Itallan
front northeast of Gorizia. according to
the official statement issued today by
the Italian war department. Yesterday
there was a very fcreat artillery bom
bardment south of the Carso. »
Since the beginning of the battle the
Italians have captured 145 guns.
Italians and Austrians
Are Battling Desperately
UDINE, Italy, lunday, Sept. 9.—The
fight against the lheights northeast of
Gorizia continues night and Jay during
good and bad weather. The continu
ous contest seems to the observer to be
animated by superhuman force, the
Italians and the Austrians almost con
stantly engaging in hand-to-hand en
counters.
A strange situation is brought about
by the two forces virtuallj’ equal in
numbers, strength and determination,
struggling for supremacy in a circum
scribed arc. where it is impossible for
either side to employ more men or ar
tillery. Gaps in the ranks are instant
ly filled and thus the contending forces
remain so balanced that victory appar
ently is impossible to either side. The
fierceness of the struggle is proved by
the Nact that in twelve hours the Ital
ians attacked the enemy five times.
PAPERSPRINTEDIIIfGERIMB
Mil BE BIBBED BI IL S.
Postal Department Considers
Excluding Some of Them
From Mails
WASHINGTON. Sept. 10.—Exclusion
from the mails of certain influential
German language newspapers printed in
various sections of the United States is
under consideration by the postoffice de
partment as a part of the government’s
determination to prevent circulation of
anti-war propaganda.
In three or four instances, it is un
derstood, officials have virtually decided
that the utterances of t'he German lan
guage newspapers in question fully
warrant their exclusion from the mails.
Other publications are being investi
gated.
There is no intention to treat the
German language dailies as a class and
each newspaper will. be considered on
the basis of the tone, character and na
ture of its articles and editorials. In
numerous instances, it is said, German 1
langauge publications have shown a
commendable loyalty and Whole-heart
edness in supporting the government.
Lafayette Escadrille
Makes Great Record
’
PARIS. Sept. 10.—The Lafayette es
cadrille, composed of American fight
ing aviators, was formally cited today
for bringing down a total of 28 enemy
airplanes.
The record wks so unusual as to mote
French war officials to the highest ad
miration.
Insurance Bill Up
WASHINGTON. Sept. 10—-House de
bate on the sailors' and soldiers’ insur
ance bill was resumed today with mem
bers’ speeches limited to five minutes
each. The bill will pass probably within
a day- or so.
Friday, and will go on this week's march
better prepared.
The weekly conference of the Y. M.
C. A. workers was held Monday morn
ing with a view to mapping out the
work at the camp. Motion pictures will
be shown in two of the Y. M. C. A.
buildings Monday evening, and will like
ly draw large crowds of the selectmen.
Selected men at Camp Gordon, irre
spective of the branch of service to
which they have been assigned, will
spend the month of September in infan
try work. Such v?as the substance of
an order by Major General Swift.
General Swift’s order stated that un
til the arrival of the second increment
of selected men during the last of the
month, the men now at the camp would
be formed into provisional companies of j
twelve squads each for the purpose of
infantry instruction. Each company,
according to the order, will be under a
regular army officer as senior instruc
tor. Daily details from the reserve of
ficers will be made to supply sucient
assistant instructors, one for each
squad.
After the arrival of the second incre
ment —the forty- per cent to be called
out September 19—the instruction will
continue along the same line, each com-'
pany commander having charge of the
training of his company.
Members of the medical detachments
will drill with the companies of the reg
iments to which they have been at
tached.
SWEDEN WILL DENY
BLAME FDR GERMAN
INTRIGUE. IS BELIEF
U, S. Attitude Toward Neutral
Depends on of
Her Part in Transmitting
Messages to Germany
WASHINGTON. Sept. 10.—America's
future position toward Sweden will be
determined by the explanation she makes
of her part in the Luxburg-Lowen code
incident.
Sweden will issue a diplomatic denial
of guilt, with some excuse attached, it is
’reported. To prove that she is not in
I league with Germany, however, would
I appear to require discharge of the
j Buenos Aires Swedish Minister Lowen,
' who forwarded German Count Luxburg's
| "sink them without a trace” messages
lon the Argentine U-boat situation. An
1 upheaval in the present directing Swed
| ish powers would be necessary to re
move the taint from Sweden’s part —de-
nial or no denial —it is held.
A break in relations between Sweden
and the United States is deemed un
likely in diplomatic quarters. The state
department has not revealed its atti
tude on that point. Sweden stands as
an added menace in an already troublous
Russian situation, and her trained army
of several hundred thousand men are
. not wanted in the struggle now. Hence
• there is likely to be a go-slow policy to
i ward Sweden.
Nor is it expected Argentina will actu
ally break with Germany, because de
spite Luxburg's intriguing counsel, Ger
many yielded to Argentinan demands
that no more ot her vessels be sunk.
Argentina, however, is certain to asK
Luxburg’s recall, diplomats say.
In any event, publication ot the code
messages has served the purpose of iet
ting Sweden know that the United
States understands where she stands
with respect to our enemy; and it can
serve as a justifiable ground tor shut
ting down on supplies for Sweden.
Further, besides warning any other neu
trals who may be hand in glove with
Germany, it Serves to point out delicate
ly to Argentina that she is playing a
uaalOM game in being pro-German ami
in nbt aligning herself with her north
ern neighbor, r Brazil,’ who already has
broken relations with the kaiser.
Still another angle of momentous pos
sibilities in the affair lies in the tact
that it may stimulate the peace party in
Germany and that group which has op
posed not only ruthlessness on the seas,
but the stupid, blundering diplomacy of
the German foreign office.
With revelation of three big plots—
the Zimmermann, the .kaiser-czar, and
Luxburg yerseakt”—the Ger
man foreign office appears due for at
tack at home for being so careless as
not to cover Its tracks.
Advices here indicate that Sweden
is planning to furnish an “out” for her
self with a claim that Lowen at Buenos
Aires was not cognizant of the acts
charged to him, and that perhaps a sub
ordinate might have taken the code for
transmission. This still does not ex
plain how the messages could go into
the Stockholm foreign office without
Sweden knowing the nature.
The United States refusal recently to
issue passports to the Stockholm con
ference is regarded in some quarters
as based on government knowledge that
it would undoubtedly be under German
Influence and that perhaps Sweden was
purposely fostering it as an aid to the
enemy.
Switzerland may be under suspicion
also.
It is recalled that her former min
ister, Ritter, here played a strongly pro-
German part after Count von Bern
storff was sent home, and that a German
agent, Dr. Barthelme, formerly con
nected with the German embassy, was
associated with Ritter for a time.
The worst feature of the whole Swed
ish situation is that it points out how
Germany may have received ship news
and other vital military information un
der the cloak of “official messages” sent
by a neutral.
Can’t, for Life of Him,
Remember Shooting at
Street Car Motorman
J. E. Turner, the man who was taken
from a North Decatur street car late
Saturday night after, it is alleged, he
had fired a pistol bullet at the motor
man and had attempted to hold up the
conductor, declared Monday that he had
no recollection of the affair. He told
DeKalb county officials that he had
boarded the street car on Edgewood ave
nue and that after that he remembers
nothing that occurred. He said he had
been drinking with some strangers in
Atlanta.
Turner gave his age as 42 years and
claims to be a laborer. He says he has
worked for different Atlanta transfer
companies. His capture was effected by
A. George, a Syrian merchant of Deca
tur, who was a passenger on the car
and who overpowered and held Turner
after the latter had fired at Motorman
E. P. McPeterson.
The affair was taken before the De
kalb grand jury Mondaj’ and an indict
ment was found against Turner.
First Georgian* Claimed
As War’s Harsh Toll, Is
Dr. Allen, of Savannah
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
SAVANNAH, Ga., Sept. 10.—The first
Georgian to give up his life in the part
the United States is taking in the fight
for world freedom went from Savan
nah.
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Cobb have been ad
vised by the secretary of the navy that
Dr. David G. Allen, the son of Mrs.
Wood, died on board the naval vessel
Panther in foreign waters on September
6. The secretary states he died "in
the performance of his duty.”
Dr. Allen was thirty-eight years of
age, and had been in the navy as a phy
sician for about ten years. He served
in San Domingo, at Vera Cruz, and*in
China during the Boxer rebellion. His
body is to be brought to Savannah for
interment
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1917.
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CJN'T RECALL KILLING
OS. FOBO, THE DENTIST
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Mahan, Held for Murder, Does
Not Remember Tragedy on
Sunday Night
An inquest will be held at 2 o’clock
Monday afternoon by Coroner Donehoo
in an effort to ascertain a motive, if
there was one, for the killing of Dr.
George A. Ford, a dentist, who was shot
to death Sunday evening at 6 o’clock In
the doorway leading to his bedroom in
a rooming house over the Gorley & Bland
Drug Co., at Luckle and Bartow streets.
Mike Herbert Mahan, the alleged slay
er, a clerk for the Southern railway,
who.lives at 696 South Pryor street, told
lhe police late Sunday night that his
mind was an entire blank as to the trag
edy, that he did not even know the man
he was accused of killing, that he knew
no reason for his being in the rooming
house and that he never owned a pistol
in his life.
The police say that Mahan was ap
parently intoxicated when brought to
the station.
The police stated Monda yaftemoon
that they had information, which would
be disclosed at the inquest to the ef
fect that Hahan had made a number of
trips to the rooming house where Dr.
Ford lived, but that they are yet with
out any information that would snow
that Dr. Ford and Mahan had met each
ether previous to Sunday afternoon.
A theory of the police is that Mahan,
in probably an Intoxicated state, got
into Dr. Ford’s room by mistake, that
Dr. Ford took exceptions to the stran
ger’s visit and that a quarresl followed
which ended in the shooting.
General Clifford L. Anderson, a friend
of Dr. Ford’s family and a college mate
of Dr. Ford, will appear at the Inquest
to represent the interests of the dead
man.
Dr. Ford, according to Mr. Anderson,
was born and raised in Macon, Ga. He
had lived in Atlanta for about four or
five years. For the first several years
of his residence tn this city, he con
ducted a dental parlor in offices at the
■•orner of Forsyth and Walton streets.
“I am surprised to hear that Dr. Ford
was killed,’ said General Anderson Mon
day. ‘He was a quiet and reserved
man: a man who would harm no one.
He was a gentleman both by birth and
training.”
Although Dr. Ford inherited money
from his father and mother's estate, it
was said that he had limited means
when he died. His only living relative
is a sister, Mrs. Zebulon Walker, of
Canton. Ga. „
So far as known there were no eye
witnesses to the slaying. E. D. Win
gard, a clerk in the employ of the A. B.
& A. railroad, who was in his room ad
joining that of Dr. Ford, when the shots
were fired, told a Journal reporter that
he heard Dr. Ford and another man
quarreling; heard one of them curse the
other, and then heard two pistol shots.
Just before the shots Wingard says he
heard Dr. Ford shout: "Oh, please don’t
shoot me.”
After the two pistol shots Wingard
declares he heard the pistol click three
additional times but that there was no
Immediately to the stairway, descended
report. Wingard said the slayer ran
to the streeet and fled.
Dr. Ford was dead when Wingard
reached him. Only one of the bullets
from the 38-caliber revolver took effect.
This bullet entered the breast of the
victim penetrating the heart. The
other bullet presumably went wild.
TWO DEAD. FBIIR WOUNDED
H SYRIANS RUN AMUCK
Thoma’s Simon, Selected for
Service, Denies Call and
Battle Follows
(Special Dispatch to The Journal )
HAWKINSVILLk, Sept. 10. —Two are
dead and four wounded as the result of
a Saturday night battle which continued
until Sunday morning, between Syrians
and Officers brought on by a Syrian
selected for army service.
THE DEAD.
THOMAS SIMON.
MBS. THOMAS SIMON.
THE WOUNDED.
M. 'L. Bembry, postoffice clerk.
John Hill, planter.
Mose Simon, brother of Thomas.
Allan Dortch, citizen.
The trouble is said to have started
over the selecting of a Syrian alien en
emy, Tnomas Simon, who is said to have
relatives in the Turkish army. Simon’s
name was certified to the district ex
emption board because of lack of proof
of his claims. He met one of the offi
cials of the local board in a crowded
drug store Saturday night, and is al
leged to have struck the official.
Simon then ran to the Syrian store,
kept by himself and his brother, Mose
Simon. The two Syrians and the farm
er’s” wife loaded Winchester rifles and
revolvers in plain view of the street
and prepared for a pitched battle, it is
said.
Late Saturday night the police at
tempted to arrest Thomas for the as
sault. Then the Syrians opened fire.
Allen Dortch, popular man about town,
fell wounded in the lung. M. L. Bern
bry, postoffice clerk, was shot through
the arm. In the return of shots, the
wife of Thomas Simon was killed. When
her body was picked up in the street
every cartridge in the revolver which
she still held in her right hand was
empty.
The Simon brothers barricaded them
selves in a valut inside the store and
defied the police. They are alleged to
have opened fire on every one who ap
proached.
Shortly after 4 o’clock Sunday mern
ing the crowd prepared to close in on
the Syrians. The Syrians tried to es
cape through a rear door, shooting as
they retired Thomas Simon was shot
and killed in his flight. Mose Simon
escaped and is now being pursued by
sheriff’s posse.
Thomas Simon came here recently
from Oklahoma. Mose Simon has been
here for several years. »
and killed in his flight.
One Convict Is Killed,
Three Guards Stabbed
In Riot in Joliet Prison
JOILET, 111., Sept. 10.—A riot oc
curred in the state prison here today
during which one convict was shot and
three guards stabbed.
The first trouble occurred yesterday.
At breakfast call about twenty of the
convicts broke from the line and one,
seizing a spade. *is said to have threaten
ed a‘guard. The latter, after ordering
MRS. KING VICTIM OF
INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE
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Federal Agents, Private De
tectives and Scotland Yard
Work on Concord Case
CONCORD. N. C., Sept. 10.—State au
thorities today again had postponed
opening of official investigation into the
unaccounted killing here by pistol or
rifle shot of Mrs. Maud A. King, wealthy
Chicago woman.
Secret agents of the department of
justice now on the scene, however, to
gether with private detectives, had be
gun a searching probe. Meantime co
relative investigations in Chicago, New
York, San Francisco, the department o£
justice at Washington, and even, it was
believed, as far as. Scotland Yard, Lon
don, were bringing to light strange tales
of a band of adventurers who supposedly
had hounded Mrs. King from Monte
Carlo across two continents to sap her
fortune.
Whether this supposed band will prove
eventually to have been connected with
her death, directly or indirectly; whether
it was in reality the “accidental suicide”
those in best position to know swear it
was, or whether, again, some as yet un
revealed third agency had intervened,
was facing investigators.
State Solicitor Hayden Clement, in
charge of the prosecution, after a hur
led visit to the scene last night, plain
ly indicated he was unimpressed with
the inquest testimony of Gaston Bul
lock Means, Mrs. King’s private advisor,
who is supposedly the only person im
mediately by her at her death. The
denseness of the underbrush at the for
est spring to which Means swears the
party iiad motored for “target practice”
and the intense gloom at 8 o’clock when
the tragedy occurred, Clement believed,
appeared incompatible with Means’
statement he had seen Mrs. King thirty
feet away with the tiny 25-caliber auto
matic in her hand. Means had sworn he
had to strike a at the spring to
see whether there were bugs on the sur
face.
Mrs. Mary Melvin, however, sister of
the dead woman, who next to Means is
said to be the one most familiar with
Mrs. King’s international peregrinations,
and to have played a losing part in at
tempts to free her from alleged "perse
cutions,” stoutly. ■ maintained Means’
loyalty.
Aligned apparently against these two,
were Mrs. King’s aged mother, Mrs. An
nie Robinson, of Asheville, N. C„ and
Mrs. King’s two brothers, who are in
Chicago pressing the investigation.
These were frankly dissatisfied with the
coroner’s jury finding of “accidental sui
cide.” Mrs. Melvin, while refusing to
discuss her mother’s demands for in
vestigation, remarked she was inclined
to be somewhat “flighty.”
the convict to drop the weapon, shot
him.
This morning at the same hour, the
trouble broke out afresh.
The men again broke from the line
and in the melee which followed three
of the guards were stabbed. The guards
clubbed their rifles and order apparent
ly was restored. .
The rioters had become angered at
the imposition of restriStions >on their
discipline.
KORNILOFF IS BALKED
IN SCHEME TO SEIZE
AUTHORITY IN RUSSIA
Kerensky Discharges Com
mander-in-Chief of Armies
and Places General Klem
bovsky in Command
Petrograd/ Sept. 10.—An official
statement says that General Lokomsky
"also proved a traitor,” refusing to take
command of the Russian armies in suc
cession to General Korniloff.
The soldiers’ and workmen’s body,
the statement adds, has ordered all the
army organiations to obey the provis
ional government against the conspir
acy, stating that General Korniloff will
be punished for treachery, and that Gen
eral ' Klembovsky will be provisionally
succeeded to the chief command
Members of the Russian cabinet today
said the provisional government
regarded General KornilofTs pro
nunclamento as an art of rebellion
which must be ruthlessly suppressed.
The government, it was added, believed
it had enough loyal troops and the sup
port o’s the Russian people to enable it
to put down the Korniloff movement.
Petrograd was formally declared in a
state of war today.
Premier Kerensky issued a proclama
tion revealing a plot by General Korni
loff. commajider-in-ch’ef of the Russian
army, to assume control of the govern
ment.
Korniloff was immediately dismissed.
General Klembovsky has heen appointed
commander-in-chlef.
Kerensky’s proclamation was in part
as follows:
. Former Premier Lvoff arrived
in Petrograd Saturday demanding ,n
General Kornlloff’s name that I de
liver all civil and military power to
the generalissimo, who would form
a new government at his pleasure.
The authenticity of this sum
mons was afterward confirmed by
Korniloff personally—by telegram
from headquarters.
Considering this summons an at
tempt in certain quarters to profit
by our country’s difficult situation
to establish conditions contrary to
the conquests of the revolution, the
provisional government recognized
the necessity of charging me for the
fatherland’s safety and the freedom
of the republican regime, to take
urgent indispensable measures hnd
to cut at the root of all attempts
against the supreme power and
rights of our citizens, won by the
revolution.
I am, therefore, for the mainte
nance of liberty and public order,
taking all measures, which will be
announced when the proper moment
arrives.
At the same time I order General
Korniloff to hand over all his func
tions to General Klembovsky, com
mander-in-chief of the armies on
the northern front, which armies
now bar the enemy’s way to Petro
grad, and I order General Klem
bovsky to assume provisionally, the
functions of generalissimo.
Secondly, I declare a state of war
in the town and district of Petro
grad. I appeal to all citizens to re
main calm and fulfill their duty
to the fatherland against a foreign
enemy. \
Situation Is Admittedly
Gravest Since Revolution
PETROGRAD, Sunday, Sept 9.—(De
layed.)—Eleven cabinet ministers have
been in continuous session in the win
ter palace today, considering measures
to fare General Korniloff’B revolt,
which, in conversation with the Asso
ciated Press correspondent, the minis
ters admit is the gravest event since
the revolution.
So far, except for the deposition of
General Korniloff. which the general is
apparently determined to defy, no meas
ures have been decided upon, but the
discussion is proceeding on a plan to
constitute a directory of five men vest
ed with full power.
The names so far submitted for mem
bership in this body are Premier Ke
rensky, Vice Premier Nekrasoff. M. Sko
beleff, the minister of labor; M. Ter
estchenko, the minister of foreign af
fairs, and M. Savinkoff, the assistant
minister of war.
In a talk with the correspondent. For
eign Minister Terestchenko said: 9
“The plan for the directory is under
discussion and may be decided tonight.
So far the government is unable to
make any statement. At 12 o’clock we
expect the arrival of General Alexieff,
with whom we will confer. My per
sonal opinion is that General Kornlloff’s
revolt is not dangerous and is partly
due to a misunderstanding which will
be cleared up.”
Regarding the rumors of widespread
arrests* in Petrograd today in connec
tion with the revolt, the Associated
Press correspondent is authorized to
decl&re that no arrests have yet been
made by order of the government, al
though there may have been some by
the judicial authorities under the ordi
nary process of law.
When M. Lvoff saw Premier Keren
sky on Saturday and presented General
Kerniloff’s demands, it developed today,
he told the premier that an organiza
tion of duma members, Moscow indus
trial interests and other conservatives
who played the role of the opposition
at the recent Moscow conference, were
supporting General Korniloff.
Klembovsky May Modify
. Order on Death, Penalty
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—Rusliua
embassy officials believe the resigna,
tiofl of General Korniloff was forced
by elements of the Council of Work
men’s and Soldiers’ delegates, and that
General Klembovsky, the new comman
der, will modify the death penalty order.
Representatives of the workmen and
soldiers in the Kerensky cabinet, it -was'
pointed out have been dissatisfied with
the stringent measures adopted to re
store the Russian army to discipline,
fearing the power might menace the
new democratic ideals of the republic.
They Insisted that a less drastic dis
ciplinary code would be received more
wholeheartedly by the army and
consequently would be more effec
tive.
The embassy had not received offi
cial nejvs of General Korniloff’s re
moval.
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