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Show PROGRESS OF THE WAR. One of the most remarkable developments develop-ments of the war was the revolt of General Korniloff, the Russian commander com-mander in chief, against the provisional government. While the causes of the commandor 'a insurgency are not clear, it is supposed that Premier Kerensky, after putting the death penalty into force throughout the army at Korniloff Korni-loff 's request, sought to modify the order. At all events, there was a serious se-rious disagreement and last Sunday or Monday the generalissimo of all the Russian forces, accompanied by Moslem Mos-lem soldiers, some Cossacks and other units, moved northward from the Riga front along tho main railway line toward to-ward the capital. The provisional government was not taken by surprise, for a certain Prince Lvoff, whom Kerensky had sent to interview. in-terview. Korniloff, returned to Petro-grad Petro-grad and submitted to the premier Korniloff Kor-niloff 's demands. The commander in chief demanded that the provisional government retire from office and turn over the supreme power to him. Later, in a proclamation, he accused Kerensky and his aides of being pro-German and seeking to betray Russia into the hands of the enemy. Since then Korniloff himself, without much evidence, has been charged with rebelling in order to help the Germans. That the brilliant bril-liant commander who defeated the Aus-tro-Germau forces in a great drive a few months ago is not aiding the enemy is shown by the fact that on the very dav his revolt was announced the Russian Rus-sian troops, which had retired from Riga, took the offensive and defeated the German cavalry. Evidently the offensive of-fensive w-as begun at the direction of the commander in chief, Korniloff. The fighting continued for several days, and at its conclusion the Germans had been driven from four or five villages which thev had occupied in their advance from Riga. The Germans are now across the Aa river and between thirty and forty miles north and northeast of Riga. The Russians are apparently determined to hold fast along this line and their resistance re-sistance has been very effective. The government at Petrograd, under the direction of the fearless and energetic ener-getic premier, made immediate arrangements arrange-ments to withstand the attacks of Korniloff. Kor-niloff. Inquiry showed that the soldiers sol-diers in the capital and all of the Baltic Bal-tic fleet were ready to aid the government. gov-ernment. Meantime Korniloff had established headquarters at Luga, ninety miles south of Petrograd, and had sent forward for-ward two contingents to threaten the capital. One occupied a town about thirty-three miles southwest of the capital cap-ital and another, consisting for the most part of Moslems from Asia, took possession pos-session of Tsarskoe-Sclo. where the for- rner czar was rcentlv interned ia what i i,a-l fines hp?n his pa'ae. Premier Kerensky had offered the command of the armies to General I Lokomky, 'who, however, sided with Korniloff. General Kaledinej, cora- I mander of some of the armies on the I we-tern front, al-o took Korniloff 's ' part, but was immediately arrested at his headquarters. The provisional government sent a I party of Moslems to treat with the sol- ' diers at Tsar.-koe-Selo, and persuaded them to desert Korniloff on the promise prom-ise that they would be sent home and would not be employed to fight against their Turkish co-religiunists. Jt was now apparent that Korniiuff's forces were disintegrating. General Krymoff, who had been selected as his coalman- ilcr in the field, was captured and taken to Petrograd. There, it is said, Keren- j sky threatened him with court-martial and death. Krymoff returned to his quarters and shot himself in the head, inflicting a wound from which he died in a few hours. Korniloff continued to hold out, but talked' over tho telephone with General Alexieff, whom Kerensky, after he himself him-self had assumed the title of commander-in-chief, had selected as his chief aide. Later Alexieff went to see Korniloff, who then submitted to arrest. ar-rest. As the death penalty is in force again in tho Russian armies, the insurgent in-surgent general may be executed. At 6ome point on the Russo-Ruman-ian front the Teutons have been worsted worst-ed in several encounters, notably in tho Oituz valley. Tho Rumanian commander com-mander took advantage of the Italian offonsive and the withdrawal of Austrian Aus-trian and Turkish troops to tho Italian front to gain some slight strategic advantages. ad-vantages. The Italians believe that they have at length achieved one of the greatest victories of the war by the capture of the crest of Monte San Gabriele, northeast north-east of Gorizia, a position which dominated domi-nated that city and also controlled the Frigido valley. For more than twenty days the mighty battle has been in progress. After the initial success of the Roman legions the Austro-Hungarians, reinforced rein-forced by Bavarians and perhaps some i German artillery and also by their' own and Turkish troops from the Rumanian frontier, launched a counter-offensive. They were able to drive the Romans from Monte San Gabriele 's western side and also to recapture positions to the northward on the Bainsizza plateau. But the Italians reacted violently at every repulse and continued to bring up and position their heavy artillery. By the end of last week the Italians had repulsed many counter-attacks and had forced their way to the crest of the mountain. They held it for a short time and then were forced down the western side. The Austrians began a new offensive of-fensive early in the week and fought fiercely for two days, again pressing forward somewhat. The Italians withstood with-stood all , of the assaults and started a counter-attack along the mountain side and also on the Bainsizza Bainsiz-za plateau. After the most serious losses, they again captured the crest of the mountain and this time held. on. They are now attacking Monte San Daniele, on about the same line as Monte San Gabriele, but dominated by the latter position. The Austrian line has been terribly weakened by the loss of Monto San Gabriele and the Romans should be able to force a retirement on a wide front unless the Germans come to the aid of their hard-pressed ally in overwhelming numbers. The Germans have been fighting hard to regain some of the lost positions north of Verdun. They have counterattacked counter-attacked in the Bois des Fosses and the Caurieres woods, east of the Meuse, on several occasions. The first attack took them into the French trenches, but later they were expelled, leaving 1000 dead in front of the French positions. The second' assault had about tho same result. After holding a part of the Caurieres wood for a few hours the Teutons were forced back. Along the British lino the fighting has been brisk, but not of a decisive character. Many raids have been made by the British troops and here and there trenches captured and held. Both the French and tho British have kept up their airplane bombardments of positions po-sitions back of the German front. The British admiralty reports that only tw-elve ships of moro than 1600 tons were sunk by submarines in the week covered by the report. This is the lowest record of ships lost since the Germans resumed their unrestricted submarine warfare. A ship which arrived at one of our Atlantic ports reported receiving a i wireless from an American ship which j was being attacked bv a German sub- i marine only a few miles from the coast. |