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Show - KERENSKY NEM FALL: Premier's Position Imperiled Im-periled by Action of Radicals, Who Demand that Property-owning Classes as Well as Social So-cial Democrats Be Ex-rV Ex-rV eluded From Power. "REDS" DEMAND SOLE CONTROL Korniloff Negotiates for Surrender; General Krymol, His Chief Aide, Commits Suicide When Captured and Threatened With Trai- tor's Death. PETKOGRAD, Sept. 14, Friday, 3 p. m. The Associated ( Press is officially informed that General Korniloff has not yet surrendered. f Still faithful to liim are some of i "he "striking battalions," and also ' a considerable number of detach- mets of Tekks Turcomans. ' PETJOCRAD, Sept. 14, 3:50 p. m. The cabinet crisis continued all day. The even'"K newspapers assert that Premier Kc'ren8'5y is n a VC1T difficult position and' at bis resignation is not excluded fro'.m ',e possibility. The situation sit-uation is complicated by the attitude i of the Petrosal! council of deputies, in which last night's meeting the Bolshevi-lv Bolshevi-lv is )for the fir;;t time gained an over-wholminp; over-wholminp; majority of 279 Against 150 in favor of the extreme radical position, w hich declares 1hat not only the Social P (emocrats, but all the representatives of property-owning classes must be ex-t'.luded ex-t'.luded from po:ver. j This programme also demanded an immediate decl-iration of a democratic republic, the .abolition of private property, prop-erty, working class control over pro-h pro-h duction, confiscation of war profits, the wmereiless taxation of capital," au immediate invitation to the warring states to conclude peace, etc. GENERAL KRYMOFF, KORNILOFF AIDE, KILLS HIMSELF By International News Service. I PETROGRAD. Sept. 14. L. G. Korniloff, Korni-loff, generalissimo for a month and rebel commander for two days. !s still dickering? dicker-ing? with dentil. His army of Caucasian tribesmen has. for th greater part, disbanded; dis-banded; most of Its oiticers are under arrest. ar-rest. His commander in the field. General Gen-eral Krymoff. killed himself its an alternative al-ternative for beinc shot as a traitor. He had pleaded vainly with Kerensky. The premier, unmoved, announced Hint the flays of blurt and bargain are over. "Plood and Iron" will henceforth be more than r threat. ' Deserted by his army, fneinf? the death penalty which he himself was the first to advocate at the Moscow conference, Korniloff is trying to treat for a pardon. He refuses to surrender unconditionally, which, Kerensky has announced, he must. I On the way to chief headquarters to persuade per-suade the rebel perioral to surrender if tieneral Atexieff, former and present, chief of staff. - Cpon the outcome of the conference be- I ween these two men hinges more than the fate of KornilofT. Alexieff. the rehl chiefs supporter in the tirst phnsr- of the counter-revolt, is now Keren skv's military mili-tary right hand: but he Is also one of the main pillars of the "moderate" movement of the constitutional demands. The la t-ter t-ter are again at loggerheads with the So-7 So-7 clalists. The Socialists, however, are the ' $ mainspring of Kerensky's power. "A11 Constitutional IVmocrais but one riiave resigned from the cabinet. lOren-P" lOren-P" skv is strenuously endeavor ins to brine about a satisfactory reorganization of the (Continued on Pago Ninr- 4 KOILOFF HOLDS OUT (Continued from Page One.) government. Without representation of both the Constitutional Democrats and the Socialists it Is. however, frankly conceded to be impossible. A bitter controversy revolves around the punishment that is to be meted out to Korniloff. Kerensky insists on death. But if he is shot a new storm is expected to rise, for millions believe him a patriot who turned rebel only as a last resort to save his countrv. The situation in which the Kerensky regime finds itself Is that if Korniloff is wrong the government, to be consistent, must execute him. If he is allowed to live, "blood and iron" are again proved to be a bluff. K he is exiled, his adherents, who still are legion, will, it is feared, make pew trouble. The once-powerful alliance of the "three K's" Kerensky, Korniloff, Kale-dine Kale-dine is hopelessly shot to pieces. General Gen-eral Kaledine, chief commander of t he cossacks. has been arrested, it was reported re-ported tonight. If true, this new action spells new dangers, for t he cossacks idolize idol-ize him with a fervor different from that which made the "savage" division follow Korniloff. These semi-wild tribesmen, it transpired today, marched on Petrograd chiefly for two reasons first, they thought they were to fight the Germans, or, second, sec-ond, they had been promised that, after "capturing" the capital, they would be allowed to worship Allah in the mosque i begun years ago in Petrograd. ; Law and order again prevail here. The i atmosphere on the whole is one of con-j con-j fidence, but there is an undercurrent of anxiety. |