Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-18 | Page 1 | Rennenkampff is Prisoner other Notables Arrested

RENNENKAMPFF IS PRISONER & S gj at $ OTHER NOTABLES ARRESTED GENERAL RENNENKAMPFF. I'M kV' Wu ' " " . i v . t w4 s I 'J - ft""' ' 8? v . C vv - vf yf Man Who Suppressed Revolution Rev-olution in 1905 Now in Hands of the Duma. LONDON, March 17, 5:30 p. m. ' ' General Alexis Brussiloft, the commander of the Russian armies in Galicia, on Thursday evening authorized the publication in Kiev of the telegrams announcing the revolution," revolu-tion," eays a Reuter dispatch from Petrograd, dated Saturday. "Apart from the killing of a few officials, including the reactionary governor gov-ernor of Tyver (a province in central Russia), no bloodshed has been reported from the provinces. Confidence in the duma seems to ha the guiding star of the revolutionary movement. At Moscow Mos-cow the chief of police was arrested and the headquarters of the secret police po-lice were burned. "A wonderful reception awaits the venerable Mme. Bresf.kovskaya, known as the 'Grandmother of the Russian revolution,' who has been released from the Siberian prison where she has spent most of her life, but with her spirit unquenched. The revolutionist Burtzeff appeared in the duma yesterday with Deputy Piankah, after ten 3-ears in the Schluesselburg prison. Both were cheered by the soldiers in the lobbies. The ruins of Russian prisons in which political prisoners have been confined will be preserved as historical relics. "Among the latest arrests are General Gen-eral RennenloJiiptf , the ruthless suppressor sup-pressor of the revolution of JOOo, and Serge Kryjanovsky, former secretary of state and the framer of the electoral law restricting suffrage. "When Grand Duke Nicholas heran an offensive to the west and north of Warsaw, War-saw, General Renncnkampf f, who had escaped from the Mazurian lake disaster disas-ter in 1S)H with a badly battered army, was expected to co-operate with the grand duke, but failed to bring up his troops at the crucial time. This checked the grand duke's offensive and immediately afterward General Rennen-kamnff Rennen-kamnff was removed from command. "Regarding the reports in the early stage of the revolution that government troops were hastening to Petrograd from the front, the D;iiiv News bulletin contains con-tains the following: "'The ministry of communications (Continued tn Pago Five.) REiEHfFF IS PRISONER OF Oil (Continued from Page One.) learns that with one exception passenger passen-ger service on all the railroads has been normal. The exception occurred at one of the junctions of the IS'orth-western IS'orth-western railway, where there was a considerable con-siderable delay owing to the transport from Mohilev of a body of cavaliers of St. George, commanded by General Ivanoff, who formerly commanded the first army corps. General Ivauoff i caused great confusion, even chaos, I everywhere and threatened the em-1 em-1 ployees with summary ' punishment if the train was delayed. " i His threats, however, were in vain. The troop train got no further than Yyrilza, where it was halted and sent back. ' "Count Kokovsoff was placed under arrest when he called at the treasury, according to custom, to receive his salary sal-ary as a member of tho council of the empire. " Tt was learned that the governor of Tyver was killed becaused he attempted attempt-ed to oppose the establishment of the new government.