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Show L ill i IS , PREMIER ' OF RUSS GIB 1 NET Leon Trotzky Takes the Post of Foreign Minister; Minis-ter; Other Members Are All Radicals of the Most Pro n o u n c e d Type; Laborer Among Number. SEVERAL LIVED ' IN THIS COUNTRY Ambassador at Washington Wash-ington Refuses to Recognize Rec-ognize the New Gov-ernment, Gov-ernment, Which He Considers the Greatest Danger to the Liberties of Russia. Advices from Petrogra under current date were, lacking during the day ot Saturday, and this no additional liht was thrown on the situation created there by the Bolsheviki seizure of power. Dispatches filed on .Friday unofficially un-officially reported the formation of a cabinet with Nikolai Lenine as premier and Leon Trotzky as foreign minister. Thera were no further developments regarding re-garding the whercaLouts of Iremier Kcrcnsky or General Kuniilof f, who on l'riday was reported to have'escaped. EMBASSY REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE THE NEW GOVERNMENT WASHINGTON, Nov. lo Tin: Kua-fciaii Kua-fciaii embassy in Washington announced this afternoon it would refuse to accept the authority' jf the .Maximalist govern-meut. govern-meut. A statement iseuej by (be liussian embassy said : I'u'ier present circumstances the Kussian em bnssy is unable to get any authoritative ami full ii;f uriiut-. uriiut-. tion as to the events hi Kussia, and therefore it is necessary to retrain from expressing any definite judgment judg-ment on the bearing of the events which have taken place. However, the following is certain and undis-putable. undis-putable. The Petrograd events are a revolt re-volt of. a iiarty against a national government. The Maxi malists are in no wav representative ot the whole of fiussia. If they have succeeded suc-ceeded to seize power and will form a "Maximalist government," such a government cannot express the will of the nation. Consequent I v, the Russian embassy in Washington Washing-ton will refuse to accept its authority. au-thority. K us. in can be headed only bv a ''national government, ' ' uniting all the constructive elements of Kus-pian Kus-pian democracy. Any success of the Maximalists is of the greatest danger to the new liberties of Russia as well as to the cause of the allies. Nevertheless, however disorganizing and demoralizing demor-alizing eiiu he its effect, a Holshe-vi Holshe-vi k i revolt should be regarded as an occurrence in the great process of reconstruct ion which is being struggled through by the .Russian nation. NIKOLAI LENINE PLACED AT HEAD OF THE NEW CABINET I'KTROCIiAP. Nov. 3. -The nll-Uusslun censTPws ot workmen'!" and soMU-rs' d-'le-ca'cs Is reported unoiTi lally to have named a cahiriPt composed nf llsheviki and then adjourned. The cabinet is headed head-ed bv Nikolai Lenine as prvmU'r and l.enu Tmtzky holds the post of foreign minister. min-ister. The cabinet will servo until the constituent con-stituent assembly an; roves it it selects a new one. In addition to I.enine and , Trotzky. the other members are reported .' to be as follows: 0r Minist'-r oi' the interior, M. Kickoff. r Minister of finance. M. Svortzoff. MlniHler of aurtculture, M. Miliulin. (Continued on Page Eight.) li"PiiF OF RUSS CABINET (Continued from Page One.) Minister of labor, M. Shliapnikoff. Comniittee on war and marine. iVL. Ovsi-anr.ikofi", Ovsi-anr.ikofi", Krylenko and Kibenko. Minister of commerce, M, Nouin. Minister of edm-ation, M. lJunacliarsky, Minister of justice, t. Oppoltov. Minister of supplies, M. Thecdoroviteh. M iidsier of posts and teleraimf, M. Aviloff. Minister of iiffnirs of nationalities fa new pesi in charge of the nffnirs of the different nationalities wifJitn Russia ), M. Uzhusasvill. Minister of communications. M. Kiazan-off. Kiazan-off. The nibinet mcmhors are all ftoIshevlUi and aro supported by the left and the Social Revolutionist party, t lie other parties lutein; withdrawn from the workmen's work-men's and soldiers' congress. I-dbcnko is a Kronstadt sailor, while. Shliapnikoff is a laborer. In reply to a question from ft peasant deputy who protested acainst the arrest of the former minister. Trotzky announced that the Socialist members of the Keren-sky Keren-sky i -a hi net would be released from the i'ortrtss of St. l'eter and St. I'mil pending an investigation. lie said the others would be held. The congress took action to turn over to the land committees for distribution the landed estates and state nnd church lands. The lands of the Cossaeks and the peasants will not be confiscated. The banks in Fetrorad reopened to-dav. to-dav. The citv is quiet. The 'i-ntire "staffs of the foreign office nnd the ministers of finance and commerce com-merce have quit work. |