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Show mifOFF miss FOE CHIEF ARCHANGEL, Wednesday, Sept. 31. (By the Associated Press.) Colonel Tchaplin. leader of the recent attempt to ' overrun ' t he provisional government, headed by M. Tschaikovsky, in north-we-stcra Knssia, has resigned his post as eommander of tho Russian forces and has been gufceeded by Colonel Ivanoff. The labor dispntes in Archangel are being rapidly settled. American soldiers sol-diers wbo bad been operating the. street car system have been transferred to other duties. ARCHAXGF.U Monday, Sept. P. (Ry the Associated Press.) As a result of an attempt to overthrow the Tscbai-kovsUy Tscbai-kovsUy eovernment the allied diplomatic and military chiefs today assumed tem-porary tem-porary direction and established a protectorate pro-tectorate in the region in the rear of the allied front pending tbe adjustment of the political disputes. This decision followed ihe arrest of M. Tschaikovsky and all bnt two members of his govern- .p:-vL uar T',mJ.jr Li' a tarty ol o- servative officers headed by Colonel Tchaplin, the Russian army commander, who sought to establish a new regime. M. Tschaikovsky and his miuisters were taken on board a ship en route to the Solovetsk monastery, from where they were returned by order of the allied al-lied ambassadors with Ihe approval of Consul General Poole. Meanwhile, the allied forces, including the American troops, arc patrolling the city, assuring tranquillity and a just settlement of all disputes. Following is tbe text of the proclamation, which is signed by the American, French, British and Italian ambassadors and Consul Genera Poole: "To the People of the Northern Region: Re-gion: The undersigned representatives of the allied nations and the commanders command-ers in chief of their forces, seeing the confusion created in the minds of the people by proclamations of leaders of the opposing factions, have decided lu prohibit the functioning for the present of the authors of the aforesaid proclamations. procla-mations. This course has been adopted in order to prevent civil strife in the rear of our combined armies, which are advancing against a common foe, and to avoid tbe almost equally deplorable calamity threatening the northern region re-gion with a widespread famine for the relief of which we are bringing supplies from our countries. We have no intention inten-tion or desire to force upon the northern north-ern region any kind of government or anv officials not the choice of the majority ma-jority of the people. "1'ntil the arrested ministers, v.ho are now on their wnv back under the protection of the allies, return to Archangel Arch-angel and until popular opinion can show who should continue to exercise the power in a constituted government wc will assure the continuation of public pub-lic service, the absolute innintona.m-f of order and will assure that the sovereign rights of everv one will be. respected and observed and that the daily life of the community will not be interrupted. Consequently, subject to our approval, the assistant heads of the ministries and chiefs of bureaus will continue to per form their duties. We trust that all good citizens will co-opernte in Ihe furthering fur-thering of this well-meaning plan, the necessity for which should appeal to ever-,- patriotic ll.issiau who wan' national na-tional independence and a rcuimc of democratic liberty. '' The. allied ambassadors had absolute Iv no desire to interfere in internal a'.'-fairs. a'.'-fairs. bnt thev considered the 'IVbnplin party's attempt to establish it' regime bv srcal'h and force i - i n u : ' 1 with the principles for whin, the allies ar1 fighting. As soon as he learned Thursday morning of the coup d'eta!. American Ambassador i'rancis -ale. a conference of the diplomats and General Poole, with the result that the nc -emraent was prohibited from fineti',n-ing fineti',n-ing and the Tchaikovs--y ministers were ordered immediately returned pending an ad iustuient and the prociu |
