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Show RANK AND FILE OF . THE RUSSIAN ARMY IS WHOLLY LOYAL PETROGRAD. Sept. 16. Notwithstanding Notwithstand-ing the continuation of the revolt of General Gen-eral Kaledines and the Don Cossacks, the designs of which are still In doubt, the position ot the government was improved today. Thatite rank and file of the army is wholly nil to the provincial government, i was shown at the judicial inquiries into the Kornlloff rebellion at Mhilev and Petrograd. Pe-trograd. whit h developed that the soldiers and also many officers, when they marched against Petrograd. had no knowledge knowl-edge of their objective and no suspicion of tlie conspiracy of General Korniloff. Premier kerensky yesterday Issued an order to the army and navy declaring that this condition also was true of the army of General Korniloff. The gran '3 council of Ton Cossacks, sitting sit-ting at Novo Tcherkash. refused to arrest ar-rest General Kaledines, but passed a resolution reso-lution protesting against the charge that the Cossacks sympathized with the counter coun-ter revolution." The resolution declares the loyalty of the Cossacks to the government. |