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Show ElElTEflllES SflM! Russians Begin Laying Mines . Off Battery in Finnish Waters. Southern Russia Is Chosen as Seat of the New Government. BAHICL, Nov. 22. Knientc tropos are marching on Kiev, rn'fordin? to advices to newspapers in Switzerland. General Skoropaclski, Ukrainian dictator, lias surrendered, sur-rendered, and General Denikine, leader of aiiti-liolshevist forces, has been named Ills .successor, villi Die consent of the entente nations, It is en id. The overthrowing of the Ukrainian Rovernment and the capture of Kiev by antl-iJoMievik troops was reported through Copenhagen, Wednesday. Minelayers Busy. OjI'KNIIAOKN. Nov. 22. Russian mine-layers arrived November 19 in Finnish Fin-nish waters off the Pnuniala battery, be-lonin.y be-lonin.y to the fortress of Ino, and "began laving mines, acrordins to an oflieial dispatch dis-patch from I Ielsiim tors loday. The battery bat-tery tired on the vessels, hittins one of the' mine-layerx. The latter replied to the fire. Inn did no damage. The dispatfli adds that- on November 2o UnsMan troops tired on t he Finnish frontier Kiiard at Hysterbneck. Finland, the message, announces, has demanded an explanation. An all - Ku.-rSian Government, composed of the general staff of the volunteer anii",-, has been formed at ICkaterinodar, wii h 1 he object of re-establishing Russia Rus-sia on a federated principle aeeortlinfj to advices from Kiev. Former Fon-ih'n Min-(mum- .sa.ouoft" is foreign minister of the now government. Authority Over Ukraine. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2-. The report from Copenhagen that a new government govern-ment has been organized at Kkaterlno-dap Kkaterlno-dap is accepted hy ofticials here as indicating indi-cating tiia this important center in fnulhern Russia has heen chosen as the scat of the new government of the cos-sacks cos-sacks under General Penlklne, who re-centlv re-centlv overthrew the Ukrainian Uoishe-vtk Uoishe-vtk government. While tli e new movement is styled all-Russian, all-Russian, the belief here is that, for the present at least, it is clearly local, extending ex-tending its authority only over the I kraine and. the territory controlled by the Jxn Cossacks. It Is regarded as certain, however, 1 hat the new regime will endeavor to form a union with the government at Omsk, under which Si-W-;'in and northern Russia are governed. This' new development in Hie Fkiaine is accepted here as indicating that the reta-neral ion of Uussia is progressing more ra pldly t ban ha-i been believed possible a few weeks ago. Kolchak's Supreme Power. Cable dispatches to the Russian embassy em-bassy todav from Siberia throw a new light on the changes that took place recently in the. all-Russian government of Omfd; and brought to the front Admiral Ad-miral Kolchak as dictaror. A gioup ot 'three military oi'lieers on the night of November 1 according to these dispatches, dis-patches, arrested without authority two members of the directory, Avksentieff and Zenzinoff. and two prominent citizens of Omsk, Argunorf and Uogovslty. The coup, the object of which is not entirely clear, was attempted without knowledge of the uovernmeiit. Tt was promptly and emphatically disapproved by the government. govern-ment. in onler to prevent further irresponsible irresponsi-ble activities) and to maintain the principle princi-ple of llrni governmental power, the council of ministers urged energetic measures and issued a special ' decree, authorizing Admiral Kobdrak to takeover the supreme power of the state. Jiy this order the. offenders were turned over at oncp for trial. Tlie aim' of the authorities is to eradicate eradi-cate further illegal actions or Holshevik eruptions and the complete banishment of politics from the army. |