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Show ORDER AGAINST POLITICS IN ARMY IS NOT POPULAR PETROGRAD, Tuesday, Sept. 18 (De-laved). (De-laved). With premier Kerensky at the front conferring with the army leaders, the delegates of the soldiers' and workmen's work-men's council at Petrograd turned their efforts toward completing plans for the democratic congress to be held in the capital September 12 (old style), when the Social revolutionary elements are expected ex-pected to muster their strength against the conservatives. Invitations to attend the congress were sent out to the representatives of all grouDS of workmen, soldiers and peasants, but none was issued to the burgeoisie or to former members of the dnraa. Eight hundred delegates are expected to participate par-ticipate and of this number the council of soldiers' and workmen's delegates will have 200. The call for the congress expresses ex-presses the desire to "organize a strong revolutionary power." A dispatch from Odessa declares the Maximalists in the army groups there stronglv oppose , the order issued by Premier Pre-mier kerensky forbidding politics in the army. Their executive council demands the abolition of the death penalty. A cossack council met today amid great excitement at Nova-Tcherkask, the capital capi-tal of the territory of the Don Cossacks, to discuss the recent order to arrest General Gen-eral Kaledines, the Cossack leader. Three hundred deputies attended the meeting of the Cossack council, which was led by Under-Ataman Bogasensky, who - read General Kaledlnes's communication. The Cossack leader, according to Bogasensky, was suspected of organizing a revolution when he was only traveling through the territory trying to increase the bread supply. sup-ply. General Kaledines learned of the or- j der for his arrest and voluntarily went to the station of Oblftazkja with a guard of only 100 Cossacks and waited there for two hours vainly for the government commissioner com-missioner to arrest him. Bogasensky said the Cossack leaders were trying to restrain the passions of their men and then added: "But. if General Kaledines is summoned to trial I'll follow him." It is expected that the Cossack incident shortly will be closed in a satisfactory manner, says the Russian official news agency. Cossack officers have submitted to the provisional government a petition requesting that the order for the arrest of General Kaledines, the Cossack leader, be countermanded, alleging the affair is entirely the work of political agents. A delegation of loyalists from Moscow lias jiow gone to the Cossack Cos-sack headquarters to investigate on the spot. |