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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. COMPLETE ECLIPSE BE«4 HIKKa. JBIi ° 7 Total- • IZr- " ECLIPSE.' •* IJJ z * - mIW " /achi\ aSome cne else SEGIAJAJ VO TAKE NOTICE ? ALSO ? \\ CJN'T RECALL KILLING OS. FOBO, THE DENTIST ■ I 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 ■ # 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. NUMBER 98
